Sentences with phrase «through dams»

Rivers rose, water topped and broke through dams, communities became islands, roads, bridges, rails and farm animals were washed away, houses floated down the river and out to sea, settlements disappeared and many people died in the Hatfield Flood.
PNNL's improved Sensor Fish is a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience as they pass through dams and other hydropower structures.
This design was later replaced with by a hollow tube stuffed with electronics to better capture the experience of real juvenile salmon swimming through dams.
Though the appearance was fish - like, the design didn't fully capture the experience of real juvenile salmon swimming through dams.
Using this version of the device, which has been dubbed the first - generation Sensor Fish, PNNL researchers measured the various forces juvenile salmon experience as they pass through dams.
McMichael spent a lot of time fishing as a boy and grew up to become a world expert on Pacific salmon, leading many of the most thorough studies to date of fish survival through dams along the Snake and Columbia rivers.
We have an impact on water — through dams, regulations and agriculture.
As part of his decision, Redden required dam operators to continue the practice of spilling water through the dams, though not through the power - generating turbines, to help juvenile salmon upriver bypass the dams and make it out to sea.
It may be that the Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams have altered the river's ecosystem beyond the point where regulating the flow of water through the dams is going to achieve anything like the natural flow of water that existed before them.
That act was like piercing a hole through a dam.
He's urging New York's congressional delegation to support the state's push for the commission to release water through the dam, which could help address flooding along Lake Ontario.
Unlike its cousin, this species (B. vaillantii) can make it through both dam bypasses and into the upper reservoir, and from there swims another 1000 kilometers or so upstream to Peru's Madre de Dios watershed.
The Yangtze carries 530 million tonnes of silt through the dam site each year, most of which could settle out on the reservoir bed.
Once the reservoirs are close to being filled, water is released, preferably through the dam & s turbines to generate electricity.
Early in the morning of Feb. 26, 1972, approximately 132 million gallons of liquid coal waste broke through a dam on Pittston Coal Company's facilities.
This is released into the atmosphere when water passes through the dam's turbines.

Not exact matches

The system is a gravity dam, meaning it relies on its own weight to resist the pressure of water that flows through it.
After the dam's water levels steadily rose from Thursday through the weekend, authorities on Sunday evening ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents in several northern California towns.
Harris County officials warned residents to evacuate as they released water from overflowing reservoirs to alleviate pressure on two dams, a move that would add to flooding along the Buffalo Bayou waterway that runs through the area.
We will make substantial investments through Parks Canada to improve the highways, bridges and dams located in our National Parks and along our historic canals.
Water Minister Mia Davies today welcomed an Australian Government commitment of $ 1 million through the National Water Infrustructure Development Fund to undertake full feasibility work on an ambitious plan to address salinity in Wellington Dam.
The company thrived during the post-war boom years through to the 1970s, designing bridges, sewage systems, dams and roads throughout Queensland.
Individual investors, hedge funds, businesses, and even countries, are sending a torrent of funds, with the effect, to paraphrase Doug Casey's famous remark, of «trying to push the power of the Hoover Dam through a garden hose.»
We let the tears flow through us rather than dam up within us.
It is like a dam broke and a river torrent was released, the force of which has forged a deep gorge through which the river courses.
«The animals enjoy structure: they can build nests and dams: they can follow the trail of scent through the forest» (MT 104).
From what I've read, the theory goes that as plants feed useful chemicals back into the soil, birds make nests and beavers build dams, we too create mini ecosystems around us, except that as well as physically, we do it through culture.
For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open to every nobler leading.
The way to stop floods is by building dams and controlling the flow of rivers; plagues and epidemics are conquered by more precise knowledge about bacteria and viruses: why pray when through the controls made possible by our knowledge of the cause - and - effect linkage we can do for ourselves as much as can be done?
We have a playground right next to the deck, an enclosed grass area where they can say hello to our sheep and our two alpacas, Gus and Caruso, through the fenced off dam and when it's a little colder, a toy box and kids packs available for purchase for only $ 5 with colouring books, pencils and healthy apricot treats.
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, contributed to whole - of - system watering in the River Murray, providing benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2016 - 17 and contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.
Commonwealth environmental water, along with a number of other sources of environmental water, is being delivered to provide benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2017 - 18, contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.
Yup he believes hes transparent and can walk through people, its so dam annoying does nt he realise his stupid fouls just slow us down anyway.
The course snakes through skull - breaking rocks and trees, down drops as precipitous as the side of Boulder Dam — and the racer's only meaningful armor is the crash helmet that makes him look faceless and oddly sinister.
Man city have a squad that we can only dam of, I'm negative because Im tired of scraping through and yet paying more than any other fans for my season ticket, im fed up with hearing bullsh!t from our manager, had enough of losing by embarrassing score lines to clubs that have more ambition than us, Im annoyed at haring about players that became world wide successes that Wenger turned down or could have got but didn't, I hate that there's never any positive news on Arsenal, and most o all I am gutted that we have only on one tropy in ten years and ta its not sowing any ign of improving but plenty of signs of going backyards.
But in the summer I would still like to sign a Striker and my choice is still Morata if Real do not get him back through their clause and Juv are looking to sell then we should not put our name in the hat but take the whole dam hat and walk off....
Tracy Brook, whose prominent natural features include two beaver dams and an active lodge as well as a heron rookery, is named for the stream that flows through the wildlife sanctuary before emptying into Richmond Lake.
The ideology behind dams, a government's sense of a dam mission, has often exacerbated this tendency, with costs being wilfully ignored in an effort to force through what are seen to be national symbols of power and development.
IPEP projects were selected through standardised guidelines in the categories provided below: • One Village, One Dam; • Small Business Development; • Agricultural inputs, including equipment; • «Water For All» Projects; and • Sanitation Projects.
It's all water under the bridge, or over the dam or through the hose or out the hydrant or whatever.
«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.
President Akufo - Addo reiterated government's commitment to creating more jobs through its flagship programmes which include «One District One Factory», «One village One Dam», and Planting for Food Jobs and others.
Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).
• The New York State Emergency Support Function # 3 has worked major dam concerns through the past 24 hours including the possible overflow / compromise of the Gilboa Dam, Summit St. Dam / Philmont Dam, Potake Lake Dam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton Ddam concerns through the past 24 hours including the possible overflow / compromise of the Gilboa Dam, Summit St. Dam / Philmont Dam, Potake Lake Dam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam, Summit St. Dam / Philmont Dam, Potake Lake Dam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam / Philmont Dam, Potake Lake Dam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam, Potake Lake Dam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam, Warwick Lower Reservoir Dam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam, Batavia Kill Watershed Dam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam, Vischers Ferry Dam and Pepacton DDam and Pepacton DamDam.
«Once we repair the dam, we can open up the gate valves and eventually allow the water to flood through, which will then - not this year, but hopefully next year - allow us to dredge the lake.
And it rejects his suggestion that preventive counter-measures — like releasing more water through a downstream dam — should have been made.
The state is formally appealing to the International Joint Commission to release additional water through the Moses - Saunders Dam to lower the Lake Ontario water levels.
From directing financial assistance to providing resources like dams and sandbags, the Governor has had our back through this challenging summer of flooding.»
Transformed Agriculture in the Northern regions, Afram Plains and the rest of Ghana through investment in machinery, irrigation and dams.
Nana Addo during a campaign tour of the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, promised to establish a dam in every village in the northern part of Ghana to boost agriculture through a well - planned irrigation policy.
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