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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
860
Depression storage, or Pocket storage
The volume of water which is required to fill natural depressions, large or small, to their overflow levels (illustrated)......
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2234
Undersluices, Sliding sluices, or Scouring sluices
1 - Gated openings provided in a weir, dam or a barrage having its sill at a level lower than the remaining portion to discharge water as and when required. Undersluices are also known as sliding sluices in main dams where water is discharged at a level much below the reservoir. These can be used to eject detritus material during periods of high fl.....
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2235
Undersluices pocket, Pocket, or Scouring sluices pocket
The portion of river channel upstream of the undersluices bounded by the divide wall, inlet of the head regulator structure and the undersluices (illustrated)......
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2236
Scouring sluice channel, or Undersluice channel
The portion of a river channel leading water to the undersluices and away from it to join the river downstream of the weir or barrage......
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2237
Downstream undersluice channel
A portion of the river or a channel made in the river that confines the erosive effects of the water discharged through the sluice gates that again joins the river downstream......
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2238
Upstream undersluice channel, or Upstream scouring sluice channel
The portion of the river channel leading water to the undersluices and limited up to the sill of the undersluices. `Pocket` is only a part of the upstream undersluice channel......
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2527
River sluices, Waste outlets, or Dewatering outlets
Sluices provided near the river bed to empty the reservoir or to discharge muddy water during floods and as also to serve as an auxiliary spillway......
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3568
Scouring escape, Sediment escape, Silt escape, Canal Scouring sluice
An escape built for sluicing sediment from a canal.
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4866
Fertilizator with liquid fertilizer pocket
An apparatus, similar in principle to that of the fertilizator in shunt, but the diverted flow collects in the fertilizator by compressing the liquid fertilizer pocket and causes the injection into the main pipe of a flow of liquid fertilizer equal to the diverted flow......
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