1). Forming pits, small basins, or water-holding cavities at intervals with appropriate equipment, for irrigating fields. 2). A structure for impounding and storing available water as a reservoir for further use.
Any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works, which does or may impound water and/or waste materials containing water with some exceptions.
Artificial walls built to store water - principally for domestic consumption or irrigation.
structure usually built on a river to create a lake by blocking the river's flow.
a structure built across a river to hold back water for a variety of reasons, including protecting areas from floods, storing water, and generating power.
(also barrage; barrier; weir) barrier constructed across a valley for impounding water or creating a reservoir34,35,36
An artificial physical barrier constructed across a river or waterway for impounding or diverting the flow of water. Dams may be used for flood control, irrigation, hydropower, and/or recreation usage. POWER dams raise the level of streams and rivers to create or concentrate head for power generation. They can have negative impacts on fish population because they cause sedimentation, warming of the water and irregular flow changes.
Beavers live in burrows or in lodges in stream banks. Access to both burrows and lodges is sub-surface for protection from predators. To assure adequate water depth, streams are dammed, using branches, logs, mud and stones.
structure designed to hold back river water, creating a reservoir.
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"
a moisture barrier made out of latex or polyurethane
A barrier built across a body of water.
a structure built across a watercourse to maintain water levels and confine and keep back flowing water (a fixed dam is a permanent structure without movable parts; a movable dam is one which can be set up or thrown down as desired).
A dam is any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, which does or will impound or divert water or any other liquid substance.
A barrier, either natural or artificially constructed, that impounds or diverts the flow of water, especially in a water course. Also, the body of water confined by a dam.
A barrier constructed across a valley for impounding water or creating a reservoir.
a barrier built across a river or stream that blocks and controls the flow of water.
1. A barrier built across a stream to impound its water for any purpose. 2. An earthen structure built to contain water for stock purposes.
A barrier built across a river or stream to hold water.
A product having several purposes: 1. A dam positions the glass in the opening while the adhesive cures. 2. A dam holds the liquid adhesive and prevents it from flowing into the interior of the vehicle. 3. A dam provides an esthetically pleasing site-line. 4. A dam acts as a sound barrier.
A concrete or earthen barrier constructed across a river and designed to control water flow or create a reservoir.
A device installed at right angles to the flow of material to enhance screening by slowing the travel of media across the screening surface.
Federally funded and maintained dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. In CRiSP.1, a dam is a point that regulates flow; however, only dams specified in the flow archive file are considered to be regulation points.
A massive wall or structure built across a valley or river for storing water..
A man-made body of water or reservoir, not just the dam itself
A physical barrier constructed across a river or waterway to control the flow of or raise the level of water. The purpose of construction may be for flood control, irrigation needs, hydroelectric power production, and/or recreation usage.
A structure of earth, rock, concrete, or other materials designed to retain water, creating a pond, lake, or reservoir.
A structure constructed to obstruct the flow or to impound water.
A barrier that is built to hold back flowing liquid.
A means of storing water in a reservoir or lake.
Technically, the dam is the wall that holds the water in and the reservoir is the water.
A structure built across a waterway or valley to impound water. [Teut. dam.
A structure built across a waterway. Dams are used to control depths upstream for navigation; or to create space to store water for flood control, irrigation, water supply, hydropower or other purposes.
Barrier constructed to store or divert water for different purposes, including electricity production. Dams are usually made of earth, rock or concrete.
Structure built in RIVERS or estuaries, basically to separate water at both sides and/or to retain water at one side.
a barrier constructed to control a flow of water or to raise a water level
Stacked stones built across a small water drainage. Dams may have been built to hold back soil for farming or to slow down or channel water.
a barrier that restricts the flow of water
water barrier or embankment built across the course of a stream or into a body of water to control and (or) impound the flow of water (breakwater, dike, jetty).
A structure constructed across a water body typically used to increase the hydraulic head at hydroelectric generating units. A dam typically reduces the velocity of water in a particular river segment and increases the depth of water by forming an impoundment behind the dam. It also generally serves as a water control structure.
a barrier made of any material, which stops the flow of rivers and streams
The barrier built into the trapway of a toilet that controls the water level in the toilet bowl.
a structure built to hold back flowing water
In a toilet bowl, the barrier built into the trapway that controls the water level in the toilet bowl.
a man-made barrier built to hold back or control flowing water in a river or lake
An artificial barrier, together with its appurtenant works, constructed in or across a waterway for the primary purpose of impounding or diverting water.
A physical barrier used to reduce a quantity of liquid flowing into the environment. Materials used to make dams are concrete, earth, and other barriers temporarily or permanently constructed to hold back the spill or leak.
A structure for impeding and controlling the flow of water in a water course, and which increases the water elevation to create the hydraulic head. The reservoir creates, in effect, stored energy.
A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. In Australian and South African English, the word "dam" can also refer to the reservoir rather than the structure. Most dams have a section called a spillway or weir over which, or through which, water will flow, either intermittently or continuously.
