weirs in English
Reduced river flows, brought about by the construction of dams, weirs and water diversions, compound the problem.
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1. Barrages are costlier than weirs
2. Spillway dam Fair Routine maintenance Weirs Fair Routine maintenance.
3. Weirs and Barrages are constructed mostly in plain areas
4. Weirs Description Weirs are hydraulic structures consisting of an obstruction such as a dam or bulkhead placed across the open channel with a specially shaped opening or notch.
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6. Weirs and constant low flows have fragmented the river system and blocked fish passage.
7. Two stoplog weirs facilitate adjustment of the water level of the upstream slackwater section.
8. These methods included line and hook, reef nets, Basketwork, brush weirs, and fish traps
9. Each lock had adjustable weirs that could regulate water levels throughout the canal system.
10. One method utilizing “weirs,” traps comprising high poles strung with nets, actually makes the tide itself do the fishing.
11. The Algonquian used weirs, a type of underwater netted fencing, to effectively corral native fishes (flounder, trout, mullet, etc.)
12. 29 They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.
13. In fishing weirs, mud that accumulated at 1.5 cm/mo to a mean depth of 5.2 cm supported normal Corophium densities.
14. Tank (11a, 11b) comprises sloping walls and is equipped with adjustable overflow weirs (22b) and one or more spray nozzles (19a, 19b).
15. Alewives and blueback herring are harvested by hand as they ascend freshwater streams and rivers, with weirs, seines, cast nets, and dip nets
16. Barrages and weirs can be built if necessary to raise the water level at the intake sufficient for the required flow to be abstracted
17. The presence of large quantities of suspended matter causes serious problems because it gets deposited on the river - bed or behind weirs as sludge .
18. That said, despite any flow adjustments that may be made, a large percentage of the habitats we’re talking about are still controlled mainly by weirs along the Rupert.
19. Within the site are mill complexes, settlements including workers' housing, weirs on the River Derwent, and the transport network that supported the mills in the valley.
20. • Examine public infrastructure and make adjustments to ensure public safety (e.g., dams and weirs, flood channels, dykes, land stabilization works, transmission towers, communication devices and channels, etc.).
21. • Examine public infrastructure and make adjustments to ensure the safety of vulnerable populations (e.g., dams and weirs, flood channels, dykes, pipelines, land stabilization works, transmission towers, communication devices and channels, etc.).
22. As part of water conservation efforts, the State has constructed 25000 farm ponds, 7000 check dams, 4000 diversion weirs, 4000 percolation tanks, 400 water harvesting structures and 350 community tanks.
23. • Examine public infrastructure and make adjustments to ensure the safety of people living in Canada (for example, dams and weirs, flood channels, dykes, pipelines, land stabilization works, transmission towers, communication devices and channels, etc.);
24. So that upstream water levels are increased as little as possible at high flows and floods, Barrages and weirs are often equipped with control gates; these may be automated to maintain the required water level.
25. ‘successive railway engineers were to divert and Canalize many miles of river’ More example sentences ‘This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.’