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Bonneville Dam
Bonneville Lock and Dam consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1.
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Burdekin Dam
The Burdekin Dam, officially the Burdekin Falls Dam, is a concrete gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Burdekin River, located south west of Ayr, and Home Hill in North Queensland, Australia.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Crystal Dam
Crystal Dam is a double curvature, concrete thin arch dam located six miles downstream from Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States.
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.
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Dam safety system
Dam safety systems are systems monitoring the state of dams used for hydropower or other purposes, as well as external physical threats to them, and issuing emergency warnings at various degrees of automation.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Floodgate
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems.
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Fuse plug
A fuse plug is a collapsible dam installed on spillways in dams to increase the dam's capacity.
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Geehi Dam
Geehi Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam with an uncontrolled glory hole spillway across the Geehi River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
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Hope Mills Dam
The Hope Mills Dam, also known as Hope Mills Dam #1, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rockfish Creek in Hope Mills, North Carolina, USA, which created Hope Mills Lake.
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Horse Mesa Dam
The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains, northeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Hubert Chanson
Hubert Chanson (born 1 November 1961) is a professor in hydraulic engineering and applied fluid mechanics in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland since 1990.
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Hungry Horse Dam
Hungry Horse Dam is an arch dam in the western United States, on the South Fork Flathead River in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Montana.
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Hydraulic jump
A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon in the science of hydraulics which is frequently observed in open channel flow such as rivers and spillways.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Intake tower
An intake tower or outlet tower is a vertical tubular structure with one or more openings used for capturing water from reservoirs and conveying it further to a hydroelectric or water-treatment plant.
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Inverted bell
The inverted bell is a metaphorical name for geometric shape that resembles a bell upside down.
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Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.
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Lake Berryessa
Lake Berryessa is the largest lake in Napa County, California.
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Levee
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Llyn Celyn
Llyn Celyn is a large reservoir constructed between 1960 and 1965 in the valley of the River Tryweryn in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Monticello Dam
Monticello Dam is a high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States constructed between 1953 and 1957.
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Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
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Morning glory
Morning glory (also written as morning-glory) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics are in flux.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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New Waddell Dam
The New Waddell Dam is an embankment dam on the Agua Fria River in Maricopa County, Arizona, northwest of Phoenix.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Ogee
An ogee is a curve (often used in moulding), shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel.
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Potential energy
In physics, potential energy is the energy possessed by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.
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Reservoir
A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.
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Shiga Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan, which forms part of the Kansai region in the western part of Honshu island.
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Siphon
The word siphon (from σίφων "pipe, tube", also spelled syphon) is used to refer to a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes.
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Sluice
A sluice (from the Dutch "sluis") is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate.
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Stepped spillway
A stepped spillway is a spillway with steps on the spillway chute to assist in the dissipation of the kinetic energy of the descending water.
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Tailrace fishing
Tailrace fishing is angling immediately below natural or man-made dams or restrictions to the flow of water on rivers, canals, streams or any other flowing current.
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Tarbela Dam
Tarbela Dam (Urdu/Pashto: تربیلا بند) is an earth fill dam on the Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.
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Ute Dam
Ute Dam (National ID # NM00293) is a dam at Logan, New Mexico in Quay County, about west of the Texas state line.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillway
