After rushing out of Nanjin Pass ( 南津关, " South Ford Pass "), the Yangtze River slows down and widens from to about at the dam site.

Contraction joints are normally placed every 20 m in the arch dam and are later filled with grout after the control cools and cures.

There is a spillway ( Gate 22 ) built into the dam which contains 3 gates with a total discharge capacity of 4, 900 cubic metres per second which flows into the normally dry bed of the Ohau River.

At approximately 9: 45 pm MST on July 20, 2010, one section of the inflatable dam on the west end burst, thus releasing water up to into the normally dry Salt River bed.

The level of the lake normally varies by one to two feet during the day and night, as water flows through ( and is pumped back through ) the dam.

The Nantahala dam is a diversion dam ; the water that normally flows through the river is diverted through a 5. 5 mile penstock before flowing through the Nantahala Powerhouse and back into the original river channel far downstream.

When high-water conditions exist, normally in early March and late November, the dam at Lake Nockamixon releases surges of water for one day every few minutes.

The natural flow to each river therefore normally passes through the dam unhindered.

His dam, Once Double, was an undistinguished runner and producer, but was sired by Double Jay, a brilliantly fast graded stakes race winner who had proven to be a useful broodmare sire.

Narasimha Rao of the appointment of a review committee on the ecological impacts of the dam, thereafter he went on another long fast another fast which lasted for 74 days at Gandhi Samadhi, Raj Ghat, during the tenure of Prime Minister, H. D.

In 1949 the Windsor Dam was completed, but this dam silted up very fast and was not an effective means of flood control.

The terracing of the paddy fields along the creek resulted in a steep drop to the water and a difficult climb out ; however, using a bullock track alongside an agricultural dam which he had previously utilised during Operation Hardihood in May, Roberts began to swim the carriers across the creek despite the fast moving current which threatened to wash them downstream.

Being born in a storm, his dam named him the Aboriginal word for ' wind ' not only for the gale outside when he was born, but because she was worried he would have to be as fast as the wind to remain free.

Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size, though this is now very seldom in condition for curling because of warmer winters.

Muddy-debris flows can start as a result of slope-related factors and shallow landslides can dam stream beds, resulting in temporary water blockage.

Emus bathing on a very hot summer day in a shallow dam

At Festival Park, the one-hundred to two-hundred or so resident birds ( which include virtually-flightless domesticated birds, swans, mallards and Canada geese that cannot or do not migrate, and hybrids of all types ) that live at the lake year round, as well as migrant Canada geese and mallards, have stripped the shoreline and land of most vegetation, resulting in erosian, and have turned the shallow lake below the dam into little more than a muddy broth of bacteria.

Gile is located to the east-southeast of Montreal, along the Gile Flowage, a shallow lake formed by a dam on the West Fork of the Montreal River.

Tidal phase differences are introduced across the dam, leading to a significant water-level differential in shallow coastal seas – featuring strong coast-parallel oscillating tidal currents such as found in the UK, China and Korea.

( It was said that Eulji had built a large dam upon the Salsu river which made the waterbed shallow, and as the Sui troops crossed the dam was broken down, releasing a huge current of water upon the unsuspecting troops, thus wiping out nearly the entire fleet with one blow ).

Over three-quarters of the river's flow is diverted through the Clear Creek Tunnel and away from the Trinity River, causing the river below the dam to become warm, silty, shallow and slow-flowing, attributes that hurt young salmon.

Some of the fish that had temporarily survived the dam break and were left stranded in shallow pools of water in the lake bed were scooped out and fed to a captive alligator in the parking lot of the Tempe Center for the Arts on Friday, July 23.

The controversy stems from the fact the water from the reservoir is rarely used by the Water District, that the broad and shallow nature of the reservoir leads to quick evaporation, and that the dam has blocked valuable spawning areas for endangered species of salmon and steelhead trout.

Among the simplest is a low dam across a shallow stream, forcing all of the water to one side to allow it to be easily collected in a canal.

Immediately after the dam, the river is all rapids, shallow most of the year, good for wading while you fish, but turbulent in the spring snow-melt or when a hard rain falls.

At Trollhättan there is a dam, canal locks and a hydropower station in the river.

In the summer months the spillway of the dam is opened for a few minutes daily and tourists gather to see the water rushing down the river ( picture ).

The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Zambezi river is the boundary between the two Rhodesias, and so the dam itself and the lake it formed both straddle the boundary.

Then the natural dam on the Goulburn River failed, the lake drained, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating " The Barmah Choke " and " The Narrows " ( where the river channel is unusually narrow ), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again.

The dam projects include large ship-locks capable of moving ocean going vessels between the impounded reservoir and the downstream river.

The last phase consisted of the removal of the dam separating the new waterway from the sea and river.

A north-flowing river was temporarily dammed southwest of present-day Louisville, creating a large lake until the dam burst.

This dam has locks, but they have not always operated well, and the river has been little used from Khartoum to the port of Kusti, a railroad crossing 319 kilometers upstream.

Typically a dam is constructed on a river, creating an artificial lake behind it.

Striped bass still continue the natural spawn run in freshwater lakes, traveling up river and blocked at the next dam, which is why they are landlocked.

The ruling Congress government in Andhra Pradesh state attributed the floods to excessive rainfall in the catchment areas of the river upstream of Srisailam dam.

This resulted in an unprecedented volume of water backing up behind Srisailam dam, resulting in floods both upstream of the river, and downstream as well, when all the gates of the dam were opened for several days to bring storage at Srisailam back to normal levels.

There is also a big dam built just after the source of the river at Trimbakeshwar.

The dam is in the town of Gangapur, which literally means a town on a river.

This dam was built to address the problem of drought in Marathwada region and problem of flood along the bank of river.

Downstream from the Araguaia confluence, in the state of Pará, the river used to have many cataracts and rapids, but they were flooded in the early 1980s by the artificial lake created by the Tucuruí dam, one of the world's largest.

The dam has created an artificial lake over a portion of the river, called Sapung Lake.

New lock and dam structures that replaced the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal In 1892, the direction of part of the Chicago River was reversed by the Army Corps of Engineers with the result that the river and much of Chicago's sewage flowed into the canal instead of into Lake Michigan.

* Fast kinds: include river flash floods resulting from convective precipitation ( intense thunderstorms ) or sudden release from an upstream impoundment created behind a dam, landslide, or glacier.

Grand Anicut dam on river Kaveri in Tamil Nadu, India | South India ( 19th century on 1st – 2nd century foundation )

A weir ( also sometimes called an overflow dam ) is a type of small overflow dam that is often used within a river channel to create an impoundment lake for water abstraction purposes and which can also be used for flow measurement or retardation.

A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.