Sentences with phrase «in dam construction»

Although there is a net trend toward dam decommissioning in the United States, most of these removals have been small dams, and the global number of removals is more than offset by recent increases in dam construction (O'Connor et al. 2015).

«And we found that the estimates of methane emissions per area of reservoir are about 25 percent higher than previously thought, which we think is significant given the global boom in dam construction, which is currently underway.»

He held his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1950, where he worked briefly as a design engineer, followed by his first exhibition in Pakistan three years later in Warsak, near Peshawar, where Gulgee was involved in a dam construction project on the Kabul River.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

Not exact matches

Construction began in 1975, when workers carved a 1.3 - mile - long, 300 - foot - deep, 490 - foot - wide diversion channel to re-route the Paraná River to make way for the dam.

Subiaco - based SRG has won a $ 6.3 million contract to provide construction work on an irrigation dam in Queensland.

One lawmaker said it was the most important development in Nevada since the construction of the Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas during the Great Depression

So there's an 18 - per - cent contingency on dam construction components like the powerhouse, the dam itself and a 10 - per - cent contingency built in to non-construction components.

It has been just over one year since construction began on the Site C hydroelectric dam and generating station in northeast British Columbia.

A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

In this regard, it is seeking partnerships to extract and process the massive deposits of bauxite at Nyinahin and Kibi, with a potential value of $ 460 billion, to fund the construction of thousands of kilometres of railway lines, roads, provide irrigation facilities and dams, and construct bridges, among others.

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

Over the past year, improvements to the 182nd Street dam on the Bronx River have been taking place, in preparation for construction of the -LSB-...]

«I was here sometime in July on the Accounting to the people tour, we cut sod for the construction of the Bolga - Bawku road and the Tamne Dam.

«We must therefore ask pertinent questions on how much the Federal Government allocates for rehabilitation of dams, construction of irrigation facilities and storage facilities to boost agriculture in the southwest.

«Apart from the herdsmen, there is also the need for us to use our influence to secure assistance from Federal Government in the area of provision of irrigation facilities, construction of dams to encourage irrigation as being done in other parts of the country.

The Federal Government has approved N497 million for the construction of the Ijegu Yala Dam in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River.

Wilson resident Marek Kobialka, a construction engineer with the Niagara Power Project, recently received, on behalf of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), an award from the Western New York Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI - WNY) for superior work practices related to the repair and restoration of the dam face of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (featured in the background).

The One - Village - One - Dam policy is one of the Akufo - Addo administration's flagship programmes aimed at ensuring all year - round agriculture in the three regions of the north, through the construction of irrigation dams in every village in that part of the country.

«Apart from the herdsmen, there is also need for us to use our influence to secure assistance from the federal government in the area of construction of dams for irrigation as well as storage facilities» he said.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioIn 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioin 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

Faisal Hossain of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and colleagues looked at the magnitude of the biggest storms near 633 of the world's largest dams before and after construction.

The only other CCS coal plant with capture near Kemper's construction status is SaskPower's Boundary Dam in Canada.

In 1928, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill authorizing $ 175 million for the construction of the Boulder Dam (later rechristened the Hoover Dam) outside of Las Vegas, and the town went wild.

Her team documented 142 hydropower dams that are operating or under construction on headwaters in the western Amazon Basin, and another 160 that are under consideration.

In Central America there are more than 300 dams of varying sizes planned or under construction.

In fact, the proposed dam borders the «core protected area» of the Upper Yangtze Native and Rare Fish Reserve — an area set aside to mitigate some of the impacts of the construction of Three Gorges Ddam borders the «core protected area» of the Upper Yangtze Native and Rare Fish Reserve — an area set aside to mitigate some of the impacts of the construction of Three Gorges DamDam.

The central government's Ministry of Environmental Protection responded in June, suspending the Xiaonanhai project pending further review — along with two other nearby dams in the Jinsha River already under construction.

Pollution, urbanization, and construction of dams and reservoirs are jeopardizing the water supply for nearly 80 percent of the global population (pdf), an international team of environmental scientists concluded in a comprehensive study published in September.

The long, slow death of the baiji was caused by overfishing, construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other changes in the vicinity of the Yangtze River (where more than 10 percent of humanity makes its home), rather than hunting or other direct human impacts.

Water and Power «The Roosevelt Dam in southern Arizona, recently completed, contains over 350,000 cubic yards of masonry, and forms the largest artificial reservoir now in existence; the construction of this reservoir required the expenditure of nearly $ 300,000 in wagon roads alone, to make the region accessible and to replace public roads submerged by the artificial lake.»

The construction of large dams is increasingly controversial with both environmentalists and engineers because of past engineering debacles, refugee problems and disruption caused by changes in river flows.

Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.

Atlantic salmon are indigenous to the area but became threatened with extinction in the 1800s as a result of dam construction, overfishing and pollution.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

Early declines, dating as far back as the 1700s, were probably the result of overharvesting in the rivers, dam construction blocking access to spawning grounds, and water pollution.

In Malaysia, tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam.

The dam is slated for construction on the Xingu River in the midst of the Amazon rainforest and upstream from a national park that is home to indigenous groups.

Canadian environmental group Probe International says that in 2000, Chinese academics pleaded for $ 37 billion for environmental projects relating to the dam's construction.

At present, the original population of Linaria salzmanii has disappeared due to the construction of the Canales dam, and Linaria becerrae is now considered exclusive of the west of the province of Málaga, where it lives in areas bordering the protected natural area of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, a well - known tourist site.

More than 600 large dams have been built or are in some stage of construction or planning in the geologically active Himalayan Mountains, but many are probably not designed to withstand the worst earthquakes that could hit the region, according to a number of seismologists and civil engineers.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

Emplacement in Egypt of barrages in the 1800s, construction the Aswan Low Dam in 1902, and the Aswan High Dam in 1965 has since altered water flow and distribution of nourishing organic - rich soil in the delta.

There is an additional looming danger of considerable importance: Ethiopia, itself energy - poor and undergoing drought conditions, is shortly (in 2017) to complete construction of the largest hydro - electric dam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERdam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERDam (GERD).

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under construction on the Blue Nile in northern Ethiopia, near the Sudan border.

(06/29/2005) Following the construction of a dam in Tanzania, the Kihansi Spray Toad sits on the brink of extinction.

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

The site in the south - east of Turkey (Diyarbakir province) is at risk from the construction of the Ilisu Dam.