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Reclamation – Lectures and Illustrations

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Reclamation Supercourse and University of Pittsburgh website Lectures

 

Author: Eric Marler M.D.

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Reclamation Supercourse and University of Pittsburgh website Lectures

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CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project: University of ...

National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection ...

pitt.edu

pitt.edu/~aeb59/

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Is stabilization conservation?

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US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ( OSM). Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP). University Library ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/vustuffmaps.pdf

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Center for Philosophy of Science ::: center associates list

Peter Michael (Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement) David Schrader (Exec. Dir., APA) Fred Seddon (President, West Virginia Philosophical ...

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www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/People/associates/associates_list.htm

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A SECOND CHANCE:

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reclamation, is a key aspect in improving the marketability of these sites to both potential residents and businesses. • Dense development can reduce sprawl and ...

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www.pitt.edu/~sabinad/courses/Brownfield_Report.pdf

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Resources & Links: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Oct 13, 2010 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/resources.html

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amy landis vita

Product testing for a printing and ink industry. Gardener (1996-2001) Wright Landscapes, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Landscape artistry and reclamation activities.

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www.pitt.edu/~ael30/vita.html

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Is stabilization conservation?

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Stabilizing for Digitization. CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project. US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement (OSM) ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/aic11.pdf

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Treatment: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Mar 22, 2011 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement Pennsylvania Dept. of ...

pitt.edu

pitt.edu/~aeb59/treatment.html

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CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project: University of ...

Jan 27, 2011 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

pitt.edu

pitt.edu/~aeb59/contact.html

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Articles, Presentations & Press: CONSOL Energy Mine Map ...

Jun 24, 2011 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

pitt.edu

pitt.edu/~aeb59/mapsbib.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Revelation of 5.12 Quake, Sichuan, China Part3 During the Quake

File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint

Jun 6, 2008... sites with “green channel”, to implement special policies for and increase the intensity of the reclamation of disaster-destroyed arable land.

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www.pitt.edu/~super7/32011-33001/32971.ppt

   

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Related Collections: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Aug 31, 2010 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/related.html

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Partners: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Aug 31, 2010 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/partners.html

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Scanning: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Jan 26, 2009 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement Pennsylvania Dept. of ...

pitt.edu

pitt.edu/~aeb59/scanning.html

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Historic Context

The history of the intensive land reclamation that took place at Flushing Meadows dates to 1907 when contractor Michael Degnon began to buy tracts of the ...

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www.pitt.edu/~klwst25/context.html

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Preparation of Papers in Two-Column Format

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[7] Kujawski, D. "Discover New Trends in Oily Wastewater Reclamation." Hydrocarbon ProcessingJuly 2010. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Sept. 2010.

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www.pitt.edu/~seb93/assignment_three.doc

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Surveying: CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project

Jan 26, 2009 ... National Mine Map Repository, US Dept. of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement ULS University Library System ...

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www.pitt.edu/~aeb59/surveying2.html

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Engineering Trends and Issues

As water continues to become a scarce commodity, more places and people will become interested in using reclamation processes to conserve water. This will ...

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www.pitt.edu/~raf54/grandchallenges.html

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Conference Proceedings

... Drainage Sludge: Effects of Neutralization Chemical, Iron Concentration, and Sludge Age", Proceedings, Mining and Reclamation Conference and Exhibition, ...

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www.pitt.edu/~casson/linked/proceedings.html

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Risk control in ultimate pits using conditional simulations 1 Introduction

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International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 12, p. 173–179. DIMITRAKOPOULOS, R., FARRELLY, C., and GODOY, M., 2002. Moving forward ...

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www.pitt.edu/~jvielma/publications/RC_OP_09.pdf

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From saco@students

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Hansen LLC to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. March 2004. 4. García, M. H., Niño, Y., Abad, J. D., Cantero, M., León, A., Mangini , S.

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www.pitt.edu/~jabad/pictures/JorgeDAbad-CV.pdf

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Earthquake sites

Nov 18, 2005... US Bureau of Reclamation (WY, CO): http://www.seismo.usbr.gov/seismo/ eqinfo.html; Univ. of Utah (UUSS): http://www.quake.utah.edu ...

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www.pitt.edu/~harbert/UPPA/favorite.htm

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Jorge D. Abad

3, Siltation Alleviation Study “from Greeley and Hansen LLC to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. March 2004. García, M. H., Niño, Y., ...

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www.pitt.edu/~jabad/pages/publications/publications.html

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Resume

Dec 31, 2000 ... reclamation plant in Arkansas, participation in a Value Management study of a nickel smelting plant in South America, analysis of operating ...

www.pitt.edu

www.pitt.edu/~oyler1/resume.htm

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Engineering Trends and Issues

Discussed in a water management article, Discover New Trend in Oily Wastewater Reclamation, there is a 3 stage biological technological process first used by ...

www.pitt.edu

www.pitt.edu/~seb93/trends.htm

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Engineering Companies

Services. Reclamation; Land Planning; Structural Design; Surface Water Management. Conditions. Roswell, New Mexico; $45000 starting salary; 9am- 5pm.

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www.pitt.edu/~nab53/companies.html

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Companies

... water reclamation; and wastewater management issues. The design of 10.7 miles of a reclaimed water system included 20-inch, 16-inch, and 12-inch mains.

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www.pitt.edu/~mss86/companies.html

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Interesting Engineering Event

The water is treated after coming from the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Plant, in which 30 gallons are treated. The pumps from the Denver plant then ...

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www.pitt.edu/~kaj32/engrtrends.html

 

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Engineering Trends and Issues

Although these issues are very important, I feel that storm/waste water management and reclamation are two of the most important infrastructure issues that ...

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www.pitt.edu/~ahr14/Engineering%20Trends%20and%20Issues.html

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Invited Presentations

"HIV in Wastewater: Presence, Viability, and Risks to Treatment Plant Workers", Presented at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago ...

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www.pitt.edu/~casson/linked/invited.html

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1370011_HQ1

How does the Bureau of Reclamation affect the environment? d. What effect do subsidies have on those who build on coastal barriers? e. Why does the Forest ...

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www.pitt.edu/~upjecon/BERGER/1370061_HQ1.html

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Krislin Nalwalk PIA 2115 April 25, 2000

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reclamation. Between 1925 and 1929, the government confiscated land, arbitrarily dividing it among users. Resulting widespread discontent led to the ...

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www.pitt.edu/~eofarb/aral2.pdf

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Conducts Playground reclamation and mural for United Way Day of Caring. Civic Engagement LLC completes Playground in 2006 and new cohort returns 2007 ...

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www.pitt.edu/~copc/COPCNewDirectionsFinalReport.doc

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Engineering Companies

... and we are among the industry leaders in advanced water treatment, water supply/distribution, and wastewater reuse/water reclamation. The Boyle staff has a ...

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www.pitt.edu/~dgs17/engineeringcompanies.html

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Anabela's Webpage

... energy, mining, development, and commercial industries. Services. Civil design; Project management; Construction management; Land surveying; Reclamation.

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www.pitt.edu/~alc139/ecompanies.html

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Engineering Companies

Civil Design; Project Managemnet; Construction Management; Construction QA/ QC Oversight; Land Surveying; Environmental Studies; Reclamation; Land ...

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www.pitt.edu/~mhm14/engrcomp.html

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Trends and Issues

Other advantages to the environment include, but are not limited to: reclamation of degraded land, reduction of electric transmission lines, improvement of the ...

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www.pitt.edu/~jrl54/trends.html

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Paroma's Webpage

... energy, mining, development, and commercial industries. Services. Civil design; Project management; Construction management; Land surveying; Reclamation.

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www.pitt.edu/~pas81/ecompanies.html

 

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Product infgormation

... Civil Site Design and Grading; Community and individual water and wastewater systems; Site evaluations; Enfironmental assessments; Land reclamation ...

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www.pitt.edu/~tad44/companyproduct.html

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1370011_HQ1

How does the Bureau of Reclamation affect the environment? d. What effect do subsidies have on those who build on coastal barriers? e. Why does government ...

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www.pitt.edu/~upjecon/BERGER/1370092_SRQ1.html

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Associates5

Peter Michael (Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement) Andrew Norman (Knosis Corp.) Fred Seddon (President, West Virginia Philosophical ...

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www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/old_site/Programs/.../Associates5.htm

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ECONOMICS 1370

How does the Bureau of Reclamation affect the environment? d. What effect do subsidies have on those who build on coastal barriers? e. Why does government ...

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www.pitt.edu/~upjecon/BERGER/1370102.suppreadquest-part1.htm

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Lund 4pm R12 THE ETHICS AND EDUCATION INVOLVED IN ...

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Washington, D.C. [Online]. Avaliable: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/ 8996/9142.aspx. (1981, June). S. Hrudey. “Water Reclamation and Reuse.

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www.pitt.edu/~dcp26/wa3.doc

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Apps for Mobile Phones

FLOOD DAMAGE.url · FOOD WASTE.url · HYDROFRACKING.url · MANURE.url · MUNICIPAL WASTEh.url · PEDOLOGY.url · RECLAMATION WATERSHED.url ...

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www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/appsMobilePhones.htm

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Engineering Grand Challenge

... from the first transportation of equipment to the final reclamation of the well site. Currently, the EPA is working on a new, $1.9 million comprehensive study on ...

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www.pitt.edu/~rnb11/EngineeringGrandChallenge.htm

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I-L Name Page to Russian and Soviet Cinema: Bibliography

"History, Memory, Water: The Reclamation of Georgian Identity in Irakli Kvirikadze's The Swimmer." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1.3 (2007): 299-327.

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www.pitt.edu/~slavic/video/i-l.html

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GOVERNMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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Nov 16, 2011 ... Energy, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Corps of. Engineers, and several other agencies. The first CR expired ...

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www.pitt.edu/~govtrel/federal/highlightsarchive/GH112805Vol4No2.pdf

 

Engineering Issues

Additionally, indirect potable reclamation may make water shortages a thing of the past. By, quite literally, "reclaiming" used water and pumping it into reservoirs, ...

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www.pitt.edu/~dga5/engtrendsandissues.html

Date:  March 13, 2012

 

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Directory of apps for mobile phones by academic discipline

Date:  March 13, 2012

 

 

Reclamation – Lectures and Illustrations

Bookmarks

Key Reference - U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation - Glossary

Keywords from Key Reference are linked to Google Search Engines to harvests Powerpoint Lectures.

Click on Google Images for Illustrations

AAC - All American Canal

AAHU - average annual habitat units

AAR - alkali-aggregate reaction

Abrasion. Wearing away of surfaces by friction

Absolute pressure.Atmospheric pressure plus gauge pressure.

Absorbed water. Water held mechanically in a soil or rock mass

Abutment (dam)

Acceptable daily intake (ADI)

Access charge (electric utility)

Access control point

Access shaft

Accident assessment

Accretion (flow of a stream)

ACEC - area of critical environmental concern

ACGIH - American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists

Acid rain

ACR - alkali-carbonate reaction

Activated carbon

Active capacity (reservoir)

Active conservation capacity (active storage) (reservoir)

Active earth pressure

Active fault

Active transport (cell membrane)

Activity (clays)

Acute exposure

Acute toxicity

ACWA - Association of California Water Agencies

Adaptation (environmental conditions)

Adhesion (shearing resistance) soil

Adit (abutment) or (dam)

ADR - alternative dispute resolution

Adsorption

Aeolian deposits

Aeration

Aerial cover

Aerobic

Affected environment

AFRP - Anadromous Fish Restoration Program

Afterbay (tailrace)

Afterbay dam (reregulating dam).

AGC - automatic generation control

Age tank or (day tank)

Aggradation

Aggregate.Crushed rock or gravel screened to sizes

Agricultural drainage

Agrochemical

AHS - Archaeological and Historical Services

AIPC - American Indian Program Council.

Air quality

Air release valve

Air slaking

Air waves (explosions)

Air-void ratio

AISC - American Institute of Steel Construction

Alert (Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time)

Alevin

Algae bloom

Algae

Algal bloom

Algicide

Alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR)

Alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR)

Alkali-silica reaction (ASR)

Alkali

Alkaline

Allelopathy

allintitleInfiltration (soil)

allintitleInitial responders (first responders)

allintitleMagnitude (Richter)

allintitlePhotosynthesis

allintitleQuarry

allintitleRecharge (groundwater)

allintitleUtility (electric), (transmission) or (distribution)

Allochthonous

Allopatric

Allowable bearing capacity

Allowable pile bearing load

Alluvial fan

Alluvial

Alluvium

ALP - Animas-La Plata Project

Ambient temperature

Ambursen dam

American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists

Ammonium

Amperage

Amphibian

Amplification (bedrock ground motion)

Anadromous

Anaerobic

Anchor block

Andesite

Angle of external friction (angle of wall friction).

Angle of external friction

Angle of internal friction (angle of shear resistance).

Angle of obliquity

Angle of repose

Angle of wall friction

Angler-day

Anisotropic (aquifers)

Anisotropic mass

Anisotropy

Annual energy cost

Annual failure probability

Annual inspection (dam).

Annual load factor

Annual operating cost

Annual work plan (Bureau of Reclamation)

Annualized loss of life

Annular space

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

Anticline

APCD - Air Pollution Control District

Application efficiency (irrigation)

Applied water (delivered water)

Approach channel

Appropriation (water)

Appropriative (water rights)

AQIA - air quality impact analysis

AQMD - Air Quality Management District

AQMP - Air Quality Management Plan

Aquatic algae

Aqueduct

Aquiclude

Aquifer

Arable land

Arch dam

Arch-buttress dam (or curved buttress dam)

Arch-gravity dam

Archaic

Archeology

Archimedean screw

Arching (transfer of stress)

Area-capacity table

Arid

Armoring (riprap)

Arroyo (channel)

Artesian well

Artifact

Artificial drains

Artificial recharge

ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers

ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTS - above ground storage tanks

At-rest earth pressure

Atmospheric pressure

Attenuation (seismic waves)

Atterberg limits (consistency limits).

ATV - all-terrain vehicle

Auger (drill) f

Automatic generation control (AGC)

Auxiliary equipment (generating station)

Auxiliary spillway

Average annual runoff

Average degree of consolidation

AWARDS - Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support

AWWA - American Water Works Association

Axis of dam

Axis. A straight line around which a shaft or body revolves

BA - biological assessment

Back pressure(water system)

Backfill concrete

Backfill

Backflow

Backsiphonage

Backwater

Baffle (flowing water)

Baffle block

Bailer (remove slurry)

Ball-milling (concrete)

Bank full (river)

Bank storage

Barrage (gate-structure dam).

Basalt

Bascule gate

Base course

Base exchange (ions)

Base flood (NFIP)

Base floodplain (NFIP)

Base flow

Base load (power system)

Base load plant

Base Loading (power plant)

Base safety condition

Base width or thickness (dam)

Baseline profile (environmental)

Basin runoff model

Basin States

Batter (pile)

Bay-Delta

Bay

BCPA - Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)

BEA - U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Beaching

Bed elevation (streambed)

Bed layer (streambed)

Bed load (strreambed)

Bed load discharge (streambed)

Bed material (streambed)

Bed material discharge (streambed)

Bedding (pipe)

Bedding plane (roclks)

Bedload (river bed)

Bedrock

Bell (spigot)

Benchmark (monument)

Bend (piping)

Beneficial use (water loss)

Beneficiary (reclamation project)

Benthic

Benthos

Bentonitic clay (bentonite).

Berm

Best gate opening (peak efficiency of a turbine)

BIA - U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Biennial (plant)

Binder (soil binder)

Bioaccumulation

Bioassay

Bioassimilation

Biological diversity

Biological growth

Biological Magnfication (biomagnification)

Biological Opinion (FWS) (NMFS)

Biological processes

Biology

Biomass

Biosphere

Biota

Biotic potential

Biotic pyramid

Biotope

Biotype

Bituminous

Black water

Blackout

Blade (excavator)

Blast (rock) or (soil)

Blasting mats

BLM - U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Blockloading (power)

Blue tops (grade stakes)

BOM - U.S. Bureau of Mines

Bonnet of a gate valve body

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

BOR - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Borderline soils

Boring. (rotary drilling)

Borrow (material excavated)

Borrow areas (material exvcavated)

Borrow pits

Boulder (rock fragment)

Boulder clay

Box girder

Brackish

Brake horsepower

Branch (main pipe)

BRD - USGS Biological Resources Division

Breach (dam break)

Breach hydrograph (dam break)

Breccia (volcanic)

Brecciated

Breeding density

Breeding potential (population)

Breeding rate (population)

Bridge (Federal-aid highway)

Broad-crested weir

Brown-out (voltage)

Bucket (excavator)

Buffer strips

Built environment.

Bulkhead (steel)

Bulkhead gate

Bulking (rocks) (sand)

Burden In (blasting)

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bureau of Reclamation

Bus (buswork) (power supply)

Busbar

Butt joint (open joint).

Butterfly valve

Buttress dam

Cairn (marker)

Calcite

Caldera (crater).

Camber (foundation settlement)

Canal (water)

Canal headworks

Canal prism

Candidate species (FWS

Capability (maximum load) (electrical)

Capable fault (maximum credible earthquakes)

Capacity (kw)

Capillary action (capillarity).

Capillary attraction (capillary force)

Capillary forces

Capillary fringe zone

Capillary head

Capillary migration (capillary flow).

Capillary movement

Capillary rise

Capillary water

Capital costs

Capital investment

Carnivore

Cartography

Casing (pipe lining for a drilled hole)

Catastrophe

Catch (recreational fishery)

Catchment basin

Cathode

Cathodic protection

Cation

Caulk

Cavitation damage

Cavitation

Central flyway

Centrifugal pump

Certification signature (risk analysis)

Certified water right

Chamfer (bevel)

Channel (watercourse)

Channel margin deposits

Check dam

Check structure (canal)

Check valve

Chimney drain

Chipping (Loosening of rock)

Chironomid

Chisel plowing

Chlorination

Chute (spillway)

Cipolletti weir (trapezoidal weir).

Circle of influence (depression of water table around a well)

Circuit (path of electric current)

Circuit breaker

Circuit mile

Cirque (mountain top)

Cistern (water tank)

Civil Defense Agency

Cladophora

Class (pipe and fittings)

Clay size

Clay

Clearing (vegetation)

Climate

Climatic year

Coarse gravel protection

Coating (metal)

Coefficient of compressibility

Coefficient of consolidation

Cofferdam

Cogenerator

Cohesion (soil particles)

Cohesionless materials (cohesionless soil)

Cohesive soil

Cold joint

Cold-water fishery

Coliform

Collar (drill hole)

Collaring (drill hole)

Colloidal particles (soil)

Colloidal suspension (sediment)

Colluvium

Combined cycle plant

Commercial operation (generator) (dispatcher)

Commercial river trip

Commercial user-day

Commercial water use

Common excavation

Common material

Community (species)

Community cohesion

Compacted backfill

Compacted embankments

Compaction curve (Proctor curve, moisture-density curve)

Compaction test

Compaction

Composite power value

Compressibility (soil)

Compression (soil)

Compression curve

Concentrated flow path (seepage)

Concrete dam

Concrete lift

Concussion

Condensation (water vapor)

Conductor (electrical current)

Conduit (water)

Confined aquifer

Confined space

Confluence (streams)

Conglomerate (sedimentary rock)

Conifers

Conjunctive use

Connection (electric systems)

Consequences (dam break)

Conservation (energy) (water use)

Consistency (soil)

Consolidation (soil)

Consolidation curve

Consolidation grouting

Consolidometer

Constant angle arch dam

Constant radius arch dam

Construction joint (concrete)

Consumer surplus (water resources)

Consumptive use (water resources)

Consumptive water use

Contact grouting

Contact load (streambed)

Containment levee

Contaminant

Contingent valuation

Continuous-flow irrigation (water)

Contour ditch

Contour farming

Contour flooding

Contour map

Contour plowing

Contour strip farming

Contour

Contracted weir

Contraction joints

Control joints

Controlled low strength material (CLSM)

Conventional tillage

Conveyance loss (distribution loss) (water)

Conveyance system efficiency

Conveyor

Cooperative electric utility

Coordinated operation (electrical) or (hydropower)

Corduroy (road)

Core (embankment dam)

Core wall (embankment dam)

Corrosion

Corrugated metal pipe (cmp)

Cost-benefit analysis (hydropower)

Coulees

Cover crop

Crazing (surface) (concrete

Creep (debris) or (soil))

Crest gate or (spillway gate)

Crest length or (length of dam)

Crest structure (dam)

Crest width (dam)

Crest. (top of dam)

Crib (dam)

Critical depth (dam)

Critical discharge (dam)

Critical flow (dam)

Critical habitat (ESA)

Critical height (embankment)

Critical slope (embankment)

Critical velocity (critical discharge)

Crop irrigation requirement

Crop root zone

Crop rotation

Crop subsidy

Crop water requirement

Cropping pattern

Cross-section (dam)

Cross-sectional area of a stream, channel or waterway

Crushed gravel

Crushed rock

Crusher (rocks)

Cultural patrimony

Cultural resources

Culvert

Curb stop

Curtain grouting

Curved gravity dam

Cutoff (impervious barrier)

Cutoff trench (dam)

Cutoff wall (dam)

Dam failure hydrograph

Dam failure

Dam foundation

Dam safety deficiencies

Dam safety issues

Dam tender (person)

Dam

Damping (vibration)

Damping ratio (vibration)

DBE - design basis earthquake

Dead capacity (dead storage) (reservoir)

Debris fan

Debris flow Debris fan

Decomposition (failure mode)

Deed covenant

Deep percolation

Deflagration

Deflation (blowouts)

Degradation (streambed)

Delay (detonation) (device)

Delay pattern (detonation) (device)

Delta (river) or (stream)

Demand (kw)

Demand scheduling (irrigation)

Demersal

Demographics

Dendritic (streams)

Dependable capacity (power system)

Depletion (consumptive water use)

Deposition (sedimentation) (streambed)

Derrick (crane)

Desalination

Desertification

Desiccant

Desiccate

Desiccation

Design basis earthquake (DBE)

Design frequency flood

Design response spectra

Design water level

Design wind

Designated floodway

Desorption

Destratification

Detection (early warning system)

Detention dam

Detonating cord

Detonation

Detonator

Detritus

Deviator stress

Dew point

Dew

Dewatering

Diaphragm earth dam

Diaphragm pump

Diaphragm wall

Diatoms

Differential head

Dike

Dilatancy

Dilution

Direct access (electricity) (retail)

Direct runoff

Direct shear test (soil or rock)

Disaster

Discharge (water)

Discharge capacity (water)

Dispersing agent (soil)

Dispersion (seismic)

Displacement pump

Dissolved oxygen

Distribution (electricity) (retail)

Distribution efficiency (irrigation)

Distribution line (electricity) (low voltage)

Distribution system (irrigation)

Ditch.

Diversion (water)

Diversion capacity (water)

Diversion channel (canal or tunnel) (water)

Diversion dam (water)

Diversion inlet (water)

Divide. A ridge or high area of land

Dome

Domestic water use or (residential water use)

Double curvature arch dam

Downstream face (dam)

Draft (draw water from reservoir)

Drainage (water from soil)

Drainage area (river or stream)

Drainage basin (river)

Drainage blanket

Drainage layer (earthfill dam)

Drainage system (surface or ground) (water)

Drainage well or (relief well)

Draw (similar to a valley)

Drawdown (reservoir)

Dredge

Drift (organisms) (river current)

Drip irrigation (trickle)

Drop structure (water)

Drought

Drum gate

Dry well

Ductility

Dumped (compacted) (soil)

Dynamic compaction (soil)

Dynamic equilibrium (sand)

Dynamic pressure (pump)

EA - environmental assessment

Early warning system (EWS)

Early warning system feasibility

Earth dam (earthfill dam).

Earth lining (surface) (canal)

Earth pressure

Earthquake

Earthwork

Easement

Ecology

Economic analysis

Ecosystem

Eddy

Edison Electric Institute (EEI)

EEO - equal employment opportunity

Effective diameter.( particle diameter)

Effective force (soil mass)

Effective peak ground acceleration

Effective porosity

Efficiency (energy)

Effluent (treated wastewater)

Effluent limitation (treated wastewater)

Elbow (pipe fitting)

Electric plant (physical)

Electric power industry

Electric power system

Electric utility

Electrical conductivity

Electrical demand

Electromotive force (EMF)

Elevation

Elongate (flexible pipes)

Embankment dam or (fill dam)

Embankment

Emergency (dam failure)

Emergency action plan (EAP) (dam failure)

Emergency broadcast system

Emergency classification levels

Emergency evacuation zones

Emergency Exercise

Emergency gate (flow)

Emergency management agency (state or local)

Emergency management

Emergency on-scene coordinator (Reclamation OSC).

Emergency operations center

Emergency operations plan (state and local)

Emergency program manager

Emergency reserve fund

Emergency spillway

End moraine (terminal moraine).

End moraine (terminal moraine)

Endangered species act (

Endangered species

Energy dissipator.

Energy grade line (EGL)

Energy Policy Act (EPACT)

Energy source

Energy

Enhancement flow (water)

Entrainment (aquatic organisms) (pump)

Environment.

Environmental analysis

Environmental assessment (EA)

Environmental impact statement (EIS)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Eolian

Ephemeral creek

Epicenter

Epifauna

Epilimnion

Equivalent diameter (equivalent size).

Equivalent fluid

Erode (land surface)

Erosion

Erratic (boulder)

Escapement (unharvested spawning stocks )

Escapement (unharvested spawning stocks)

Escapement

Escarpment (steep slope)

Essential element (dam safety)

Esthetics

Estuary

Eutrophic

Eutrophication

Evacuation (dam failure)

Evacuation warning (dam failure)

Evaporation

Evapotranspiration

Excavation.

Exclusive flood control capacity

Exotic species

Expansion (soil mass)

Expansion joint (concrete)

Extirpated species

Extrados

Extrapolation

Face (dam)

Failure (dam)

Fall (slope) (horizontal runs piping)

Fallow

Farm (water) spill and seepage loss

Fatal flaw

Fatality rate

Fault (geologic)

Fault-block (horst)

Faulting

Fauna

Feasibility estimate

Feasibility

Feather (blend)

Federal dam safety, emergency planning, preparedness

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Federal Power Act

Federal Power Commission (FPC)

Feldspar

Fetch (wind) (water)

Field capacity (field moisture capacity)

Field tile

Fill (soil)

Filter (filter zone)

Filter cake (mud cake).

Financial analysis

Finding of no significant impact (FONSI)

Fines (Ccay or silt particles in soil).

Finger drains

Finished grade (earthwork)

Firm energy (power)

Firm yield (water)

Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS)

Fish ladder (fishway)

Fish weir

Fishery

Fixed amount or frequency scheduling (irrigation)

Fixed-wheel gate

Flail (hammer)

Flange (pipe)

Flap gate

Flash flood warning

Flash flood watch

Flash flood

Flashboards

Flat slab buttress dam

Flatirons

Fleet angle

Flexible pipe

Fling (near field)

Flip bucket

Floc

Flocculation

Flood boundary

Flood control capacity

Flood control pool (flood pool)

Flood frequency

Flood hydrograph

Flood irrigation

Flood pool index

Flood routing

Flood severity understanding

Flood severity

Flood stage

Flood

Floodgate

Floodplain

Flora

Flow (water)

Flow augmentation (water)

Flow channel

Flow curve

Flow failure

Flow line

Flow net

Flow slide

Flowage easement

Flowage

Fluctuating flows (water)

Flume

Flushing (of the lines)

Fluvial

Fly ash

Food chain

Footing

Forage fish

Forage

Forb

Forced outage

Ford. A place where a road crosses a stream under water

Forebay (headrace)

Foreshore

Forest Service (USDA)

Formation (Geology)

Formulation process (Early Warning System)

Fossorial insects

Foundation (dam)

Foundation drains

Foundation material (foundation soil).

Foundation surface

Foundation trench (dam)

Fracture (joint). Crack or break in rocks

Freeboard

Freeze-thaw damage

Freezeout

French drain

Frequency demand scheduling (irrigation)

Freshwater

Friction

Front end loader

Frost action

Frost heave

Frost line

Froude number

Fry (fingerlings)

Fuel replacement energy

Fulcrum

Furrow

Fuse plug spillway

Gabion dam

Gabion

Gage height

Gaging station

Gaining stream

Gallery (dam)

Galvanize (zinc)

Gametes

Gantry crane

Gantry

Gas supersaturation

Gate (hydraulic)

Gate chamber (valve chamber)

Gate valve

Gated pipe (irrigation)

Gated pipe

Gated spillway

Gauge (gage)

Gauge pressure

Generation (KwH)

Generation dispatch

Generator (electricity)

Generator nameplate capacity

Geohydrology

Geology

Geomorphic

Geomorphology

Geophysics

Geotextiles

Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta).

Glacial moraine

Glacial striations

Glacier (ice sheet).

Global positioning systems (GPS)

Gneiss

Goggle valve

Graben

Gradation (soil)

Grade (pitch) (surface) (elevation)

Grade stake

Graded stream

Grader (machine) (landfill)

Gradient

Granite

Granitic

Granodiorite

Grapple

Gravel blanket

Gravel Fill

Gravel surfacing

Gravel

Gravity dam

Gravity irrigation

Gray water

Grid (electricity)

Grid operator (electricity)

Grizzly (coarse screen)

Groin (dam)

Gross crop value

Gross generation (electricity)

Ground motion parameters

Ground motion

Ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI)

Groundwater mining (overdraft)

Groundwater recharge

Groundwater table

Groundwater

Grout cap

Grout curtain (grout cutoff)

Grout

Grouting

Growing season

Grubbing

Habitat

Halophytic

Hanger (support for pipe)

Hard water

Hardness (water)

Hardpan

Harrow (agricultural tool)

Harvest (fish catch)

Hatchery (fish eggs)

Haul distance (from cut to fill)

Haunches (haunch) (pipe)

Hazard classification

Hazard

Hazardous materials

Hazardous substances

Hazardous Waste Indicators

Hazardous Waste Sites

Head (differential pressure) (causing flow)

Head loss (flowing fluid)

Heading (tunnel digging face)

Headrace

Headwall

Headwater

Heap (soil)

Heave (geology)

Heel (dam)

Herbicide

Herbivore

Herpetofauna

High dam

High hazard (dam failure)

High-pressure gate (dam)

Hoe (shovel) (cable)

Hogback (ridge)

Hoist

Hollow gravity dam

Hollow-jet valve

Homogeneous earthfill dam

Hopper (bin)

Hopper

Hornblende

Hornfels

Horst

Human environment

Humus

Hydraulic efficiency

Hydraulic fill dam

Hydraulic fill

Hydraulic grade line (HGL) (Hydraulic gradient)

Hydraulic height

Hydraulic

Hydraulics

Hydric

Hydroelectric plant

Hydroelectric power

Hydroelectric unit (hydro unit)

Hydrogeochemistry

Hydrogeologic conditions

Hydrogeologic cycle

Hydrogeologist

Hydrogeology

Hydrograph

Hydrography

Hydrologic cycle

Hydrologic unit code

Hydrology

Hydromet

Hydrometeorological Report (HMR)

Hydrometer

Hydrophilic

Hydrophobic

Hydrostatic

Hyperconcentrated flow

Hypocenter

Hypolimnetic

Hypolimnion

Hyporheic zone

Hypsography

Ichthyology

Igneous

Impeller

Impermeable

Impervious material

Impervious

Implementation process (EWS)

Impoundment (dam)

Inactive capacity (inactive storage) (reservoir)

Incident command system (EWS)

Incised stream

Independent Power Producer (IPP)

Independent System Operator (ISO)

Indicator (environmental)

Infiltration gallery

Infiltration rate (soil)

Inflow design flood (IDF).

Influent

Inlet channel (inlet structure).

Institutionalized populations

Instream flow requirements

Instream uses

Instrumentation (dams)

Intake (dams) (waterways) (reservoir) (river)

Intake structure (outlet works)

Integrated resource planning (IRP)

Intensity scale (Mercalli)

Intercepting Drain. (Curtain drain).

Interconnected system (tie lines)

Interflow (lateral) (soil)

Interlock (electrical switch)

Intermittent capacity

Intermittent stream (seasonal stream)

Internal combustion plant

Internal drainage (soil)

Internal erosion (soil)

Internal vibration (compaction)

Interruptible demands

Interruptible load

Interstice (soil)

Interstitial flow

Intrados (arch dam)

Inundate (floodwaters)

Inundation map (floodwaters)

Invert (lowest point) (excavation), (channel), (pipe, conduit or canal)

Invertebrates

Investor owned utility (IOU)

Iowa vanes

Irrigable acreage or area for service

Irrigable acreage

Irrigable land

Irrigation (agriculture)

Irrigation check (furrow)

Irrigation district.

Irrigation efficiency

Irrigation requirement

Isochrome

Isothermal

Isotropic mass

Jeopardy opinion (FWS) (NMFS)

Jetting (water) (soil)

Jetting pump (high pressure water streams)

Jetty

Job hazard analysis (JHA)

Joint use capacity

Juvenile salmon

Laccolith

Lacustrine habitat

Lagomorphs

Laminar flow

Land classification (USBR)

Land ownership

Land retirement

Landfill

Landholder

Landslide

Larval fish

Lateral moraine

Lateral. A channel that conveys water from a canal to a farm, municipality

Lava

Leach (water) (soil)

Leachate

Leaching field (leaching cesspool).

Leaching requirement

Leaching

Leakage (water)

Lease of power privilege

Lentic

Levee

Lift line

Limestone

Limnological conditions

Limnology

Lineament

Lining

Liquefaction

Liquid limit (LL)

Littoral zone

Littoral

Live capacity (live storage

Load (electrical)

Load factor (engine, machine, or plant)

Load following (engine, machine, or plant)

Loam

Local capabilities assessment (EWS)

Local emergency operations plan (EOP)

Local emergency planning committee (LEPC)

Lockout device

Lockout

Loess

Loessial

Log boom (dam)

Long-throated flumes

Loose yards (soil) (rock)

Losing stream

Lotic

Low dam

Low density material

Low hazard (dam)

Low-head hydroelectric

Lysimeter

Macroclimate

Macrohabitat

Macrophytes

Magma

Main channel (stream)

Main channel pool (stream)

Mainstream (mainstem)

Major facility (USBR)

Manifold (Header)

Manning's roughness coefficient (n)

Manometer

Mantle

Map

Marble

Marginal land

Market-based rates

Marketer (electricity)

Masonry dam

Mass care center

Mass Concrete

Massive head buttress dam

Mastic

Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)

Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG)

Maximum controllable water surface

Maximum credible earthquake (MCE)

Maximum design earthquake (MDE)

Mean sea level (msl).

Meander (river)

Medium-height dam

Medium-size water system

Medium-thick arch dam

Mesotrophic

Metalimnion

Metamorphic

Mica (metamorphic)

Micro Irrigation

Microclimate

Microhabitat

Migmatite

Migratory

Mine tailings dam

Minimum flow (stream)

Minimum operating level (reservoir)

Mining (ore) (rock)

Moderate frequency flood

Modified homogeneous earthfill dam

Modified Mercalli scale

Mohr circle

Moisture content (water content).

Monocline

Monomictic

Morning glory spillway

Motor efficiency

Muck (humus)

Mud (soil) (water)

Mudflat

Mudstone

Mulch

Multi-stage pump

Multiple arch dam

Multiple-purpose reservoir (multipurpose reservoir)

Multipurpose dam

Multipurpose project

Municipal utility (municipally-owned electric system)

Municipalization (electricity)

Nameplate capacity

Nameplate

National disaster medical system

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Park Service (NPS)

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

National Register of Historic Places

National Response Center (NRC)

National Response Team (NRT)

National Warning System (NAWAS)

National Water Quality Assessment Program

National Weather Service (NWS)

Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI)

Natural frequency (f)

Natural period of vibration (T)

Naturalness (land)

Navigable waters (U.S.)

Neatlines

Needle valve

Negative pressure (pipe)

Neoprene

Neotropical migrant

Nephelometric.

Neutron probe (soil)

Nipple (pipe)

No jeopardy opinion (FWS) (NMFS)

Non-potable

Non-uniform flow

Non-utility generators (NUGs)

Nonconsumptive water uses

Nonpoint source

Nonutility power producer

North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC)

North Korea - Google Scholar Search

Notification (EWS)

Nutrients

O-ring

Oakum (hemp)

Obligate riparian species

Observation well

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA)

Off-peak energy

Offstream uses

Ogee crest

Oil spill contingency fund

Oil.

Oligotrophic (reservoirs) (lakes)

Omnivore

On-district storage (irrigation)

On-farm irrigation efficiency

On-peak energy

On-scene coordinator (OSC) (EPA)

Open access same-time information system (OASIS)

Open transmission access

Open-cut

Operating basis earthquake (OBE)

Ore (geology)

Organization or Agency (dam) (emergency)

Outage

Outlet Works

Overall safety of dams classification

Overbreak (geomechanics)

Overburden (geomechanics)

Overdraft (aquifer)

Overexcavation.

Overflow dam

Overflow spillway (ogee spillway).

Overhaul (payment) (haul distance)

Overtopping (reservoir) (lake)

Overturn (reservoir)(lake)

Oxbow channel

Ozonation

Ozone

Pacific flyway

Paleoflood data

Paleoflood hydrology

Paleoflood

Palustrine habitat

Pan evaporation

Parallel path flow

Parapet wall (dam)

Parshall Flume (Improved Venturi Flume)

Particle displacement (soil)

Particle size (soil)

Passive earth pressure (soil)

Pattern cracking (concrete)

Pay formation (soil) (rock)

Pea gravel

Peak demand (electrical)

Peak ground acceleration (PGA)

Peak load plant

Peaking capacity

Peaking power

Peat

Penstock

Perched water table

Percolation (soil)

Percolation rate (soil)

Perennial stream

Perennial yield

Perforated pipe

Periphyton

Permafrost

Permanent wilting point

Permeability (soil)

Permeable (porous) (liquids) or (gases)

Permeameter

Permeate (soil)

Pervious zone

Petcock

Photogrammetry

Phreatic surface

Phreatophyte

Physiography

Phytophagous

Phytoplankton

Piezometer

Piezometric surface

Pile (driven)

Pioneering (overgrown areas)

Pipe trench

Pipe

Pit (open-cut)

Pit run gravel

Planimeter

Plankton

Plastic limit (soil)

Plasticity (soil)

Plasticity index (soil)

Playa (basin)

Plot (area of land)

Plumb (exactly vertical)

Plumb bob (exactly vertical)

Plunge pool

Ply (layers of fabric)

Pneumatic

Point source

Pollutant

Pollution

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

Pond

Ponding

Pool. (stream)

Population at risk (PAR) (inundation)

Population density

Pore (rock or soil)

Pore pressure (rock or soil)

Pore spaces (rock or soil)

Pore-water pressure (reservoir or embankment)

Porosity (rock or soil)

Portal (opening) (tunnel)

Positive pressure (pipe)

Potable water

Potential dam safety deficiency

Potential evapotranspiration

Potential spill

Power (kW)

Power factor

Power plant capacity

Power plant

Power pool

Precast dam (precast concrete)

Precipitation.

Predominant period.

Preference customers.

Pressure relief pipes.

Primary excavation

Primary production (photosynthesis)

Prime (pump)

Prior appropriation

Private sector (emergency preparedness)

Probability of failure (dam)

Probability.

Probable maximum flood (PMF)

Probable maximum precipitation (PMP)

Profundal

Programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS)

Project Hazardous Waste Coordinator

Proratable water

Protective Action (dam)

Public involvement plan (USBR)

Public land order

Public Utilities Commission or (Public Service Commissiont

Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA)

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA)

Puddling

Pull shovel (dragshovel or hoe)

Pump

Pumpback system

Pumped-storage plant

Pumping (mechanical) (transfer) (fluids)

Pumping energy

Pumping plant

Pumplift (pumping lift)

Purchased power

Purveyor (water)

Pyroclastic

Quantitative precipitation forecasts

Quartz

Quartzite

Quaternary

Quicksand

Radial gate

Raffinate ponds

Ramp flume

Ramp rate

Random earthquake

Range (geography)

Rapid (river) (rapids)

Rapid flow (Froude)

Raptors. (birds of prey)

Rated capacity (hydro generator)

Rated head (hydro generator)

Ratio of reduction (stone) (crusher)

Reach (stream) (river)

Reactive power (VARS)

Ready reserve (generation capacity)

Rebar (steel)

Recharge rate (groundwater)

Recirculation zone (eddies)

Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (RRA)

Reclamation zone

Recreation

Recreational benefit

Rectangular weir

Recurrence interval (years) (storms)

Redd (salmon) (nest)

Refill (excavated)

Refuge compatibility requirements

Regional Hazardous Waste Management Coordinator

Regional Response Team (RRT)

Regional Transmission Group

Regulating gate (operating gate, regulating valve).

Relative density (cohesionless soil)

Relative humidity

Release (water) (consumptive use)

Reliability(electricity) (uninterrupted)

Relict

Relief valve

Remote operation (mechanical

Remote sensing

Renewable resources

Reportable discharge of oil (40 CFR 110.3)

Reportable quantities.(NRC)

Reserve generating capacity

Reservoir capacity allocations (RCA) sheet

Reservoir capacity

Reservoir inflow

Reservoir regulation or (operating procedure)

Reservoir surface area

Reservoir

Resilience.

Resource Management Plan

Response spectrum

Retaining wall

Return flow

Return-flow system (reuse system).

Revetment

Rewind (armature)

Rhyolite

Richter scale

Riffle Pool Complex

Riffle

Right-of-way

Rigid pipe

Rill

Riparian

Ripple (streambed)

Riprap

Risk assessment (dam safety)

Risk

River corridor

Riverine

Rock anchor

Rock bolt

Rock excavation

Rock fragment

Rock

Rockfill dam

Roller compacted concrete (RCC)

Roller compacted concrete dam

Roller gate

Rolling (soil)

Root zone (soil)

Rough fish

Route alerting

Rubble dam

Run-of-river plants

Runoff

Rural area

Rural electric cooperative

Sacred site (Federal land)

Saddle dam

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

Safe yield

Safety Evaluation Earthquake (SEE)

Safety Evaluation of Existing Dams (SEED)

Salinity

Salmonids

Saltation

Sample error

Sand backfill

Sand boil

Sand

Sandstone

SARA Title III

Saturated zone

Saturation (internal vibration)

Scaling (loose rock)

Scheduled outage

Schist

Scour (streambed)

Scrape (nest)

Screen (filter)

Seam ( rock, coal, or ore)

Seasonal stream

Secchi depth

Sediment concentration

Sediment discharge

Sediment load

Sediment yield

Sediment.

Sedimentary

Sedimentation

Seep (ooze) (groundwater)

Seepage force

Seepage loss

Seepage velocity

Seepage

Seiche wave

Seismic evaluation criteria

Seismic intensity

Seismic parameters

Seismic

Seismotectonic Province

Seismotectonic

Seize (wire rope)

Sensitive species (FWS)

Separation deposit (sand)

Settlement (sinking)

Sewer tile

Shaft house

Shaft spillway

Shaft

Shale

Shear strength

Shear wall

Shear zone

Shear

Sheepsfoot roller

Sheet piling.

Sheet wash

Shelterbelt

Sheltering (in-place).

Shoring

Short-throated flumes

Shrinkage (soil)

Shrinkage index (SI) (soil)

Shrinkage limit (SL) (soil)

Shrinkage ratios (soil)

Significant hazard

Sill (river)

Silt (rock flour)

Silting

Siltstone

Simulid

Single-stage pump

Sinkhole

Sinuosity

Siphon (canals)

Siphon tube (irrigate)

Siphonage

Site (archeology)

Skewed

Skip (hoist)

Skiving (shaving)

Slab (concrete bridge)

Slaking (soil)

Slate (rock)

Sleet (storm)

Slide (landslide).

Slope protection

Slope

Slough

Sluice gate

Sluice

Sluiceway

Sluicing

Slurry (cement grout)

Slurry trench

Small power producer (SPP)

Smolts

Snow

Sodic soil

Sodicity

Soil cement

Soil classification

Soil conservation

Soil moisture

Soil subsidence

Soil

Spalling (spall) (concrete)

Spalling (spall).(concrete)

Spawn (fish)

Spawning beds

Species

Spigot (pipe)

Spills (water release)

Spillway channel

Spillway crest

Spillway

Spinning reserves

Splitter wall

Spoil (excavated rock) (river)

Spring (ground water)

Springline (tunnel, pipe or conduit)

Sprinkler irrigation

Stability

Staff gauge

Standard Operating Procedures (dam or reservoir)

Standby reserves (MW)

Standpipe

State Emergency Response Commission (SERC)

Static head

Stationary white noise

Stator (rotor)

Stator windings

Steady flow

Steam

Sticky limit

Stilling basin

Stilling pool

Stockpile

Stone (rock)

Stoplogs (Stop Logs)

Strata (stratum) (layers of rock)

Stratification (thermal)

Stratified reservoir

Stratigraphy (geology)

Stream capacity

Stream line

Streambed at the dam axis

Streamflow

Striation (bedrock)

Strip cropping

Structural Height (dam)

Strut (brace)

Stud (bolt)

Subbase (pavement)

Subdrilling

Subgrade (pavement)

Subgrade (soil)

Subgrade surface (pavement)

Subirrigation

Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV)

Subsidence

Substation (electric)

Substation capacity (kVA)

Subsurface irrigation system

Sulfate attack (concrete)

Sump pump

Sump

Supplemental irrigation service land

Suppressed weir

Surcharge capacity (surcharge storage) (reservoir)

Surface pump

Surface runoff

Surface soil

Surface vibration

Surface water

Surge (flow)

Surge chamber

Surge irrigation

Suspended load (suspended sediment)

Suspension (sediment)

Swale

Switching station

Synchronous condensers

Syncline

Synthetic earthquake

Tagout device

Tagout

Tailings

Tailwater

Tainter gate

Talus (rock fragments)

Tamp (soil)

Tamper (soil)

Tamping (soil)

Tamping roller (soil)

Tandem

Tangent

Taproot

Tectonics

Tee (pipe fitting)

Telescope

Tensiometer

Terrace (ground contour)

Terrain

Terrestrial

Territorial communities

Test pit (geologic)

Thalweg

Thermal sand

Thermocline

Thermocouple

Thermoelectric power plant

Thick arch dam

Thickness or width of dam

Thin arch dam

Thixotropy

Threatened species

Through cut (excavation)

Thrust block (concrete)

Tie lines (transmission)

Tier 1 Tiering (NEPA)

Tier 2 Tiering (NEPA)

Tiering (NEPA)

Tight (soil or rock)

Tile (pipe made of baked clay)

Till (glacier)

Tilth

Timber

Timbering

Time of concentration

Toe (drains)

Topographic Maps

Topography

Topsoil

Total dissolved solids (TDS)

Total dynamic head (TDH)

Total maximum daily loads (TMDL)

Totalizer (integrator)

Toxin

Traditional cultural property (TCP)

Traffic control point

Training wall

Tranquil flow

Transducer

Transformed flow net

Transformer

Transition zone or (semipervious zone)

Transmission line

Transmissivity

Transpiration.

Transport capacity (sediment) (river)

Trash Rack

Trash rake

Trashrack

Tremie

Trestle (bridge)

Triaxial shear test

Tributary

Tripod

Trophic level

Trunnion

Tube valve

Tuff (volcanic ash)

Turbidimeter

Turbidity

Turbine

Turbulent flow

Turnout (divert water)

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Ultimate bearing capacity

Unbundling (electric service)

Unclassified excavation

Unconfined aquifer

Unconformities (geologic record gap)

Understory

Undisturbed sample (soil)

Unified Soil Classification System

Uniform flow

Unit hydrograph

United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

Unload-reload cycle

Unpaid Federal investment

Unsteady flow

Unsuitable material (soil)

Unwatering

Uplift

Uprate

Upstream blanket

Upstream face

Urban area

Urbanization

V-notch weir

Vane shear test

Variable costs

Varved

Vebe time

Vegetative controls

Vein (seam)

Venturi

Vernier

Vertical lift gate

Vesicular (vesicles) (volcanic rock)

Vibrating screen

Virgin compression curve

Virgin compression line

Virgin compression

Viscosity

Void (soil OR rock)

Void ratio (soil or rock)

Volcanic rock

Voltage reduction

Volume of Concrete

Volume of dam

Volumetric shrinkage

Vortex

Wall friction (soil or rock)

Warm-water fishery

Warning (EWS)

Warning stage (EWS)

Warning time (EWS)

Wash load

Waste Bank

Waste

Water budget (water balance model)

Water conveyance efficiency

Water conveyance structure

Water cycle

Water delivery system

Water demand

Water hammer (hydraulic transient)

Water holding capacity

Water management plan

Water purveyor

Water quality

Water saturation

Water supplier

Water surface elevation (stage)

Water table

Water transfers

Water year .

Watershed (drainage area).

Watershed divide

Waterstage recorder

Waterstop (water bar)

Waterways

Wave runup

Wedge

Weep hole

Weir (overflow)

Weld

Well field

Well

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)

Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC)

Wetlands

Wetted perimeter

Wheeling (electricity)

White noise

Wholesale customers (electricity)

Wholesale power market (electricity)

Wholesale transmission services (electricity)

Wholesale wheeling (electricity)

Wicket gate (hydropower)

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Public Law 90-542)

Wilderness Act

Wilderness resource

Wilderness

Willingness to pay

Wilting point.

Winch

Wind setup

Windrow

Wing wall (water)

Winters Doctrine

Wire-to-water efficiency

Withdrawal (water)

Wye branch (Y branch) (pipe)

Xeriscape

Young-of-year

Zero air voids curve

Zone of aeration

Zone of saturation

Zoned earthfill (or zoned embankment).

Zoning

Zooplankton

Date:  March 13, 2012

 

Author: Eric Marler M.D. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Science/main.htm#WHO  

 

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