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861 |
Bank storage | Water absorbed and stored in the bed and banks of a stream, lake, or reservoir as the surface level of the water body rises and returned in whole or in part as the surface level falls...... | | Similar Terms |
955 |
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1427 |
Concave (river) bank | The bank on the outside of a river bend. The radius of a concave bank is generally greater than that of the convex bank. | | Similar Terms |
1428 |
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1455 |
Bankful discharge | Discharge corresponding to the state at which the river berms are about to be submerged. | | Similar Terms |
1484 |
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1500 |
Fending groyne, or Bankhead | Groyne which fends the current of flow of water and prevents erosion. Denehy`s groyne is an example of this type (illustrated)...... | | Similar Terms |
1507 |
Stem bank, or Shank | Embankment connecting a groyne head to the river bank or marginal bund (illustrated). | | Similar Terms |
1524 |
Retired embankment | An embankment built at a distance from the river edge behind an existing embankment as a second line of defence. (illustrated)...... | | Similar Terms |
1526 |
Bank sluice | An opening controlled by shutters or gates in the marginal embankment which are opened during high floods. | | Similar Terms |
1527 |
Guide bank, or Bell`s bund | A protective or training embankment constructed at the side of a weir, bridge, etc., to guide the river into the waterway in the structure; named after Mr. J.R. Bell who designed such bunds (illustrated)...... | | Similar Terms |
1533 |
Bank protection | 1 - A kind of engineering work which aims at protecting the banks of a river, or slopes of embankments along it, from erosion by the current of flow. 2 - See 7986...... | | Similar Terms |
1534 |
Bank revetment | A type of bank protection continuously covering the entire slope of a bank or an embankment, including the portions extending far into the river bed, to protect the bank from erosion. Bank revetment somewhat resembles canal lining, the difference being that the latter aims at stopping or lessening the seepage of water from a canal into the ground, ..... | | Similar Terms |
1535 |
Bank paving | The part of revetment extending from the mattress to the top of the banks. See 1544. | | Similar Terms |
1537 |
Upper bank | The portion of the river bank that is located above the low water level and below the foreshore level. See 1538. | | Similar Terms |
1538 |
Lower bank | The portion of a bank below low water level often extending quite a distance horizontally to the river bed. See 1537. | | Similar Terms |
1539 |
Direct bank protection | Kind of works on the bank itself, such as slope protection of embankment and upper bank and toe protection of lower bank against erosion, and grading of sloping surface or provision of drainage layers, to ensure stability against seepage and saturation...... | | Similar Terms |
1542 |
Indirect bank protection | Kind of works that are not constructed directly on the banks but in front of them with a view to reduce the erosive force of the current either by deflecting the current away from the banks or by inducing deposition in front of them...... | | Similar Terms |
2066 |
Bank | The rising ground bordering a lake, river or sea; of a river or channel, designated as right or left as it would appear facing downstream...... | | Similar Terms |
2087 |
Peat | Undercomposed or partly composed organic matter developed essentially under wet anaerobic conditions. | | Similar Terms |
2090 |
Sedimentary peat | Peat formed in comparatively deep water from remains of water lilies, pondweed, pollen, plankton, etc.; is highly colloidal, quite compact and rubbery...... | | Similar Terms |
2091 |
Fibrous peat | Peat formed from sedges of various kinds, mosses, reeds and other grasses, cattails and their mixtures. Hence the names moss peat, sedge peat, reed peat, etc...... | | Similar Terms |
2092 |
Woody peat | Peat, usually loose and non-fibrous, built up from partially decomposed remains of deciduous and coniferous trees and their undergrowth...... | | Similar Terms |
2100 |
Older peat | Old, highly decomposed peat of raised moss. | | Similar Terms |
2101 |
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