Dams are among the oldest structures built by humans for collective use. A dam is a barrier that is constructed across a river or stream so the water can be held back or impounded to supply water for drinking or irrigation‚ to control flooding‚ and to generate power. The main kinds of dams are earth fill‚ rock fill‚ concrete gravity‚ concrete arch‚ and arch gravity. The last three types are all made of concrete‚ reinforced concrete‚ or masonry. (The term masonry can mean concrete‚ bricks‚ or blocks
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Title: Foundation of Ted Hughes’ work Who was Ted Hughes? What’s so special bought him that he was able to use his own life experiences to create wonderful poems? Ted Hughes wrote bought anger sorrow and regret because he saw people in pain‚ his own wife passed away and he regrets his actions from the past. Edward James Hughes or more commonly known as Ted Hughes was born in August 17‚ 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street‚ in Mytholmroyd‚ West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith Hughes. When Hughes was
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Tehri Dam| | Location of Tehri Dam| Country|India| Location|Uttarakhand[->0]| Coordinates|30°22′40″N 78°28′50″ECoordinates[->1]: 30°22′40″N 78°28′50″E| Status|Operational| Construction began|1978| Opening date|2006| Construction cost|US$1 billion| Owner(s)|Tehri Hydro Development Corporation| Dam and spillways| Type of dam[->2]|Embankment[->3]‚ earth and rock-fill| Height|260.5 m (855 ft)| Length|575 m (1‚886 ft)| Crest width|20 m (66 ft)| Base width|1‚128 m (3‚701 ft)| Impounds|Bhagirathi
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The environmental problem I chose in my local area of Pennsville‚ New Jersey is the pollution of our water sources. The impact of the industrial discharge‚ pesticides‚ atmospheric deposition‚ and urban street run off is causing depleted oxygen levels‚ our fish to test positive for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)‚ aquatic life impairment of Phosphorous and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)‚ Nitrogen contamination‚ and primary contact recreation to be contaminated by Enterococcus Bacteria and Fecal Coliform
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1. Introduction The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River will probably be finished by 2009 and will be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. Being the present manager and being appointed by the government at the feasibility stage I am asked to write a report in order to outline the activities required to successfully manage this major project and to ensure that it is completed on time and within budget. This report will be divided into six parts beginning with an introduction and ending
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Environmental Problem: Defined The environmental issue that my research will focus on is the continued use of fossil fuels as the primary energy source by our global economy: regardless of the proven adverse impacts‚ from our reliance on these nonrenewable resources; and in consideration of the circumstances regarding the existence of viable alternative sources of energy‚ given the application of equivalent technologies applied to their systems of conversion. The focus of this paper is not to identify
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Kurobe Dam At 186 meters (610 ft.) high‚ it is the tallest dam in Japan. It was constructed between 1956 and 1963 at a cost of ¥51.3 billion yen. The project was a difficult engineering feat for the rapidly growing post–World War II Japan‚ and claimed the lives of 171 people. There are also 30‚000 suicides a year at this dam. The Kurobe Dam is the most popular hydropower site in Japan and‚ between late June and mid-October; water is released from its spillway for onlookers. The surrounding Kurobe
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Environmental Problem: Climate Change Introduction This report sets out to show that climate change is currently the leading environmental threat to the Earth and requires people to tackle this long-term and global problem with worldwide cooperation. Climate change is the build- up of gases such as carbon dioxide‚ water vapour and methane in the atmosphere; this means the world is warming (Lewis et al‚ 2004). Pakenham (2004‚ pp.217) states that climate change has chain effects leading to global
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The Itaipu Dam (Guarani: Itaipu‚ Portuguese: Itaipu‚ Spanish: Itaipú; Portuguese pronunciation: [itɐjˈpu]‚ locally: [ita.iˈpu]‚ Spanish pronunciation: [itaiˈpu]) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guaraní language‚ Itaipu means "the sounding stone". The dam is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual energy generation‚ generating
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grand scheme that the Brazilian Government used was to build a dam in 1984. It was the fourth largest dam in the world and it cost 5 billion dollars. The Brazilian government plans to build more dams in the amazon to harness the power of various rivers with money borrowed from other countries. The idea of dams such as these is to generate cheap electricity for Brazilian industrustys. The water held back by the dams has flooded a huge area of forest. The forest wasn’t cleared‚ (though it should have
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