Reservoir Sentence Examples
A third reservoir is authorized.
Near the central quadrangle of the city is a vast reservoir of water, the dome of which is of bold and excellent proportions.
The nucleus of the township lies on high ground to the east of the Edgware road, which crosses the Welsh Harp reservoir of Regent's Canal, a favourite fishing and skating resort.
This was the celebrated Kala Wewa, or Black Reservoir, more than 50 m.
The city has a park and a boulevard system; the principal parks are Washington, Lincoln, Reservoir and Mildred.
The reservoir at Yodobashi is capable of supplying water (from the river Tama) to all parts at a pressure varying from 80 to too ft.
I hiked up the path, all the way to the reservoir.
The most interesting of them are the Assa range, with its sandal trees and Buddhist remains; Udayagiri (Sunrise-hill), with its colossal image of Buddha, sacred reservoir, and ruins; and Assagiri, with its mosque of 1719.
After a few minutes rest, they continued, first hearing, then seeing the waterfall and the reservoir from which the penstock first drew the water for its mile-long trip to town.
A noteworthy feature of the metropolitan public water service was begun in 1896 in the Wachusett lake reservoir at Clinton, on the Nashua river.
AdvertisementThe Egyptian pilgrim road crosses the peninsula from Suez to Akaba, passing the post of An Nakhl, with a reservoir and a little cultivation, about half way; a steep descent leads down from the edge of the Tih plateau to Akaba.
But there are several subfamilies of ants whose females have the lancets of the sting useless for piercing, although the poison-glands are functional, their secretion being ejected by the insect, when occasion may arise, from the greatly enlarged reservoir, the reduced sting acting as a squirt.
At Port Logan in Wigtonshire cod-fish are kept in a large reservoir, scooped out of the solid rock by the action of the sea, egress from which is prevented by a barrier of stones, which does not prevent the free access of the water.
The reservoir is supplied by a conduit of 6th-century tiles connected with an early stone aqueduct, the course of which is traceable beneath the Dionysiac theatre and the royal garden in the direction of the Upper Ilissus.
Where an effective sealing of the mine is impracticable it is sometimes possible to extinguish the fire from the outside of the mine by constructing a large reservoir or tank in the upper part of the mine-shaft and suddenly releasing a large volume of water by opening dischargedoors.
AdvertisementThe cock is now shut against both communications, the reservoir lifted, the gas contents of A discharged and so on, until, when after an exhaustion mercury is let into A, the metal strikes against the top without interposition of a gas-bell.
In the design of a structure such as a tall reservoir dam it is important that the line of thrust in the material should pass inside the core of a section, so that the material should not be in a state of tension anywhere and so liable to open and admit the water.
A little to the south-west of the point where the road turns towards the Propylaea was found a large rock-cut cistern or reservoir which Dorpfeld identifies with the Enneacrunus.
A fine tamarisk, traces of a church (which is mentioned in the 8th century), and a large reservoir, now filled up with mud, remain.
For dirtier coffee makers you can fill a quarter of the water reservoir with vinegar and the remainder with water.
AdvertisementIt was paved with large flagstones and in the centre was a beautiful kiosk or pavilion, covered with gold and raised over the reservoir of water for ablutions.
The retorts are charged with molten sulphur from an upper reservoir, which is kept at the requisite temperature by means of the lost heat of the retort fires.
Thus, while the mineral may be formed in a stratum other than that in which it is found, though in many cases it is indigenous to it, for the formation of a natural reservoir of the fluid (whether liquid or gas) it is necessary that there should be a suitable porous rock to contain it.
In front of the reservoir is a small open space towards which several roads converge; close by is a triangular enclosure of polygonal masonry, in which were found various relics relating to the worship of Dionysus, a very ancient wine-press (Anvos) and the remains of a small temple.
He had also created in1811-1812a new National Guard, organized in " cohorts " to distinguish it from the regular army, and for home defence only, and these by a skilful appeal to their patriotism and judicious pressure applied through the prefects, became a useful reservoir of half-trained men for new battalions of the active army.
AdvertisementHe remarked that the flow of water from an orifice depends not only on the magnitude of the orifice itself, but also on the height of the water in the reservoir; and that a pipe employed to carry off a portion of water from an aqueduct should, as circumstances required, have a position more or less inclined to the original direction of the current.
There is a good water supply, drawn from a reservoir about 21 m.
It self cleans, has an auto off feature and an extra large water reservoir.
Rowenta irons require the use to only use plain tap water in the reservoir and to empty it after each use.
This system of intercellular spaces, extending throughout the plant, constitutes a reservoir, charged with an atmosphere which differs somewhat in its composition from the external air, its gaseous constituents varying from time to time and from place to place, in consequence of the interchanges between itself and the protoplaste.
The Winnipeg River has at this point a fall of 16 ft., which, with the lake as a reservoir, furnishes an abundant and unfailing waterpower.
Thirlmere itself was raised in level, and adapted by means of a dam at the north end, as a reservoir for the watersupply of Manchester in 1890-1894.
The municipal water supply comes from a reservoir at Crystal Springs at the foot of Mill Mountain near the city limits.
He regarded, therefore, the section of the contracted vein as the true orifice from which the discharge of water ought to be deduced, and the velocity of the effluent water as due to the whole height of water in the reservoir; and by this means his theory became more conformable to the results of experience, though still open to serious objections.
In estimating the evaporation to be deducted from the rainfall for the purpose of determining the flow into a reservoir, it is important to bear in mind that the loss from a constant water surface is nearly one and a half times as great as from the intermittently saturated land surface.
Under modern legislation no such abstraction of water is usually allowed, even if limited to times of flood, except on condition of an augmentation of the natural dry-weather flow, and this condition at once involves the construction of a reservoir.
The actual size of the reservoir which would certainly yield the assumed supply throughout the driest periods has therefore been largely a matter of judgment.
Empirical rules have grown up assigning to each district, according to its average rainfall, a particular number of days' supply, independently of any inflow, as the contents of the reservoir necessary to secure a given yield throughout the driest seasons.
The diagram applies to ordinary areas suitable for reservoir construction and in which the minimum flow of the stream reaches about one-fifth of a cubic foot per second per moo acres.
They consist of a bottom, airtight chamber for holding the water, a middle reservoir with a filter for holding the coffee and a tube that brings the water up and over the grounds.
As the water is heated, the ensuing air pushes the water out of the airtight chamber which forces it over the coffee grounds where it drips into the bottom of the top side reservoir.
Sparks will fly romantically, but a strong sense of commitment and large reservoir of patience are needed to make this relationship last.
Films include Taxi Driver, Deathwatch, Falling in Love, Wise Guys, Thelma and Louise, Reservoir Dogs, Sister Act, The Piano, Pulp Fiction, City of Industry, Smoke, The Path to 9/11, One Last Dance and Inglorious Basterds.
More artists and inventors worked with the atomizer over the years, creating a continuous air flow, oscillating needle and reservoir for ink.
Place a clear piece of tape over the the dispensing end of the cartridge, if access to the reservoir is on the bottom.
Some cartridges have a plug that can be removed and others have a foil seal over the hole to the reservoir.
Inject the ink slowly into the reservoir.
The grease cup is a reservoir that catches the grease and residue run off from your grill.
During his rule harbour works were built at Mandvi, an immense reservoir for rain water in the Chadwa hills was constructed, and many schools and colleges were endowed.
The city had in 1908 three parks - Bachman's Reservoir (500 acres); Fair (525 acres) - the Texas state fair grounds, in which an annual exhibition is held - and City park (17 acres).
The first difficulty that presented itself in carrying this out, was that during the months of highest flood the Nile is so charged with alluvial matter that to pond it up then would inevitably lead to a deposit of silt in the reservoir, which would in no great number of years fill it up. It was found, however, that the flood water was comparatively free from deposit by the middle of November, while the river was still so high that, without injuring the irrigation, water might go on being stored up until March.
The storage capacity of the reservoir is about 3,750,000 millions of cub.
The reservoir is filled yearly by March; after that the volume reaching the reservoir from the south is passed on through the sluices.
The municipality owns the water works and the sewer system; the water supply is obtained from the Delaware and is stored in a reservoir having a capacity of about i io,000,000 gallons.
The water supply of Melrose, like that of Stoneham and of Medford, is derived from the metropolitan reservoir called Spot Pond in Stoneham, immediately west of Melrose.
In tidal seas a " jas " (or storage reservoir) is constructed alongside, similarly rendered impervious, in which the water is allowed to settle and concentrate to a certain extent.
Swansea obtains its chief supply from a reservoir of one thousand million gallons constructed in 1898-1906 on the Cray, a tributary of the Usk.
It is a 4th-century Greek building of rich Ionic style, and was still unfinished at the time of the earthquake, then cleared and partially rebuilt, and finally used as a water reservoir in the Byzantine period.
Beneath the cathedral square, at the highest point of the town, is a large reservoir.
By means of a dam across the Ternay, an affluent of the D€ome, to the north-west of the town, a reservoir is provided, in which an additional supply of water, for both industrial and domestic purposes, is stored.
Below the town is a reservoir containing a spring of clear water called the Anant Nag, slightly sulphurous, from which volumes of gas continually arise; the water swarms with sacred fish.
The water-supply system is owned and operated by the borough; the water is derived from streams flowing southward in the sparsely settled area east of the borough, and also from driven wells in the same region; it is pumped by ten engines at Ridgewood to a reservoir having a capacity of about 300,000,000 gallons, while a part of it is re-pumped to a high service reservoir near the north entrance to Prospect Park for the service of the most elevated part of the borough.
It was supplied with water by an aqueduct, the reservoir of which is situated at the village of Papaglionti.
This provides for a storage reservoir, controlled by Shoshone dam on Shoshone river, about 8 m.
Boroevic remained quiet on the Piave front, and the rest of Below's army was now practically a reservoir for Krauss, who drew divisions both from Scotti and from Hofacher, as well as from Stein.
Water comes from karez or underground channels and streams from Varak, fed from the Sikhe Lake, an ancient reservoir which preserves the snow waters on the summit of the mountain.
The remains existing within them are entirely Roman-a row of vaulted substructions, a water reservoir and a mosaic with representations of fishes.
As a part of the plans of the national government for reclamation of land in the arid states, imposing schemes have been formulated for such work in Colorado, including a great reservoir on the Gunnison.
The Carlsbad reservoir and diverting dam in Eddy county and the Rio Hondo canals and reservoir in Chaves county were completed in 1907 and are capable of supplying water to tracts of 20,000 and 10,000 acres respectively.
In 1908 an irrigation reservoir in McKinley county for the use of the Zuni Indians and the Leasburg project (Dona Ana county; 20,000 acres) were completed.
But the great reservoir known as Lake Vyrnwy, which supplies Liverpool with water, is equal in size to Bala; and the chain of four artificial lakes constructed by the Birmingham corporation in the valleys of the Elan and Claerwen covers a large area in west Radnorshire.
As the river water was insufficient to maintain the local industry an artificial reservoir was constructed at La Gileppe on the Hautes Fagnes, and an imposing aqueduct conveys the water stored on these highlands into Verviers.
Between the two is a water reservoir (called Bagno della Regina) connected with remains of baths.
Savart showed, by a suitable isolation of the reservoir from tremors, whether due to external sources or to the impact of the jet itself in the vessel placed to receive it.
Whether the residuary disturbances are of external origin, or are due to friction, or to some peculiarity of the fluid motion within the reservoir, has not been satisfactorily determined.
When the circumstances of the experiment are such that the reservoir is influenced by the shocks due to the impact of the jet, the disintegration usually establishes itself with complete regularity, and is attended by a musical note (Savart).
Thus frequency - d (2ti) (4) 4.508d But the most certain method of obtaining complete regularity of resolution is to bring the reservoir under the influence of an external vibrator, whose pitch is approximately the same as that proper to the jet.
The town possesses 103 acres of parks and open spaces, the chief being Llewelyn Park of 42 acres in the north of the town near Morriston, Victoria Park (16 acres) and recreation ground (8 acres) abutting on the sands in the west, with the privately owned football field between them, Cwmdonkin (13 acres) commanding a fine panoramic view of the bay, and Brynmill (9 acres) with a disused reservoir constructed in 1837 and now converted into an ornamental lake.
In certain species of Gnetum described by Karsten the megaspore contains a peripheral layer of protoplasm, in which scattered nuclei represent the female reproductive cells; in Gnetum Gnemon a similar state of things exists in the upper half of the megaspore, while the lower half agrees with the megaspore of Welwitschia in being full of prothallus-tissue, which serves merely as a reservoir of food.
Remains of other villas may be seen, but the most important ruin is the reservoir of the (subterranean) aqueducts just outside the town on the east, which had no less than twenty-seven chambers each about 90 ft.
To the south was a camp for the imperial bodyguard, with baths, an amphitheatre, a large water reservoir, &c. The first legion known to have been quartered there is the II.
On the 30th of April 1802 it suffered severely by the bursting of the reservoir known as the Pantano de Puentes, in which the waters of the Sangonera were stored for purposes of irrigation (1775-1785); the district adjoining the river, known as the Barrio de San Cristobal, was completely ruined, and more than six hundred persons perished.
When no reservoir exists, the volume of continuous supply from any watershed area Dry is evidently limited to the minimum, or, so-called, extreme dry weather flow of the stream draining it.
When, however, a reservoir is employed to equalize the flow during and before the period of dry weather, the minimum flow continuously available may be increased to a much higher figure, depending upon the capacity of that reservoir in relation to the mean flow of the stream supplying it.
In the simplest case of a single mountain valley to be used for the supply of an impounding reservoir, the rainfall should be known at five points, three being in the axis of the valley, of which one is near the point of intersection of that axis with the boundary of the watershed.
The water supplied to the stream from such a reservoir is known as " compensation water," and is generally a first charge upon the works.
Down to the middle of the 19th century, the proportioning of the size of a reservoir to its work was a very rough operation.
Yield of There were few rainfall statistics, little was known stream of the total loss by evaporation, and still less of its with distribution over the different periods of dry and reservoir.
But this is evidently only the case when the reservoir impounding the water from such an area is of just sufficient capacity to equalize that flow without possible exhaustion in any one of the three summers.
If the reservoir were larger it might equalize the flow of the four or more driest consecutive years, which would be somewhat greater than that of the three; if smaller, we might only be able to count upon the average of the flow of the two driest consecutive years, and there are many reservoirs which will not yield continuously the average flow of the stream even in the single driest year.
With further experience it has become obvious that very few reservoirs are capable of equalizing the full flow of the three consecutive driest years, and each engineer, in estimating the yield of such reservoirs, has deducted from the quantity ascertained on the assumption that they do so, a certain quantity representing, according to his judgment, the overflow which in one or more of such years might be lost from the reservoir.
Now, in order that a reservoir may enable the varying flow, represented cumulatively by the irregular line, to be discharged in a continuous and uniform flow to satisfy a demand represented cumulatively by the straight line a a, its capacity must be such that it will hold not only the II% surplus of the same year, but that, on June loth, when this surplus has been used to satisfy the demand, it will still contain the water c d-19%stored from a previous year; otherwise between June 10th and August 31st the reservoir will be empty and only the dry weather flow of the stream will be available for supply.
In short, if the reservoir is to equalize the whole flow of this year, it must have a capacity equal to the greatest deficiency c d of the cumulative flow below the cumulative demand, plus the greatest excess e f of the cumulative flow over the cumulative demand.
A reservoir so proportioned to the stream-flow with a proper addition to avoid drawing off the bottom water, would probably be safe in Great Britain in any year FIG.
It may be at first sight objected that a case is assumed in which there is no overflow before the reservoir begins to fall, and therefore no such loss as generally occurs from that cause.
This is true, but it is only so because we have made our reservoir large enough to contain in addition to its stock of 19%, at the beginning of the year, all the surplus water that passes during the earlier months in this driest year with its least favourable time-distribution of flow.
Experience shows, in fact, that if a different distribution of the assumed rainfall occurs, that distribution will not try the reservoir more severely while the hitherto assumed uniform rate of demand is maintained.
The reservoir begins to fall at the end of February, and continues to do so with few and short exceptions until the end of August, and it so happens that about the end of August this dotted line, b b representing actual cumulative demand, crosses the straight line a a of uniform demand, so that the excess of demand, represented by the slope from June to September, is balanced by the deficiency of demand, represented by the flatter slope in the first five months, except as regards the small quantity b e near the end of February, which, not having been drawn off during January and February, must overflow before the end of February.
After the reservoir begins to fall - in this case at the end of February - no ordinary change in the variation of demand can affect the question, subject of course to the cumulative demand not exceeding the reservoir yield for the assumed year of minimum rainfall.
In assuming a demand at the beginning of the year below the mean, resulting in an overflow equal in this case to b e at the end of February and increasing our reservoir to meet it, we assume also that some additional supply to that reservoir beyond the 11% of the streamflow from the driest year can be obtained from the previous year.
The whole diagram shows, by the greater gradient of the unbroken straight lines, the greater demand which can be satisfied by the enlargement of the reservoir to the extent necessary to equalize the flow of the two driest consecutive years.
The line a" a" drawn from zero parallel to the first line, produced to the boundaries of the diagram, will cut the vertical at the end of the first year at the percentage of the driest year's flow which may be safely drawn continuously from the reservoir throughout the two years.
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The ordinate to any point upon this curved line then represents on the left-hand scale the maximum continuous yield per day for each acre of drainage area, from a reservoir whose capacity is equal to the corresponding abscissa.
As an example, assume that we can conveniently construct a reservoir to contain, in addition to bottom water not to be used, 200,000 gallons for each acre of the watershed above the point of interception by the proposed dam.
We find on the left-hand scale of yield that the height of the ordinate drawn to the 50-inch mean rainfall curve from 200,000 on the capacity scale, is 1457 gallons per day per acre; and the straight radial line, which cuts the point of intersection of the curved line and the co-ordinates, tells us that this reservoir will equalize the flow of the two driest consecutive years.
Similarly, if we wish to equalize the flow of the three driest consecutive years we change the co-ordinates to the radial line figured 3, and thus find that the available capacity of the reservoir must be 276,000 gallons per acre, and that in consideration of the additional expense of such a reservoir we shall increase the daily yield to 1612 gallons per acre.
In the same manner it will be found that by means of a reservoir having an available capacity of only 118,000 gallons per acre of the watershed, we may with the same rainfall and evaporation secure a daily supply of 1085 gallons per acre.
In this case the left-hand radial line passes through the point at which the coordinates meet, showing that the reservoir will just equalize the flow of the driest year.
Similarly, the yield from any given reservoir, or the capacity required for any yield, corresponding with any mean rainfall from 30 to 100 in., and with the flow over any period, from the driest year to the six or more consecutive driest years, may be determined from the diagram.
It is instructive to note the ratio of increase of reservoir capacity and yield respectively for any given rainfall.
It must also be remembered that the total capacity of a reservoir must be greater than its net available capacity, in order that in the driest seasons fish life may be maintained and no foul water may be drawn off.
If, therefore, a reservoir so formed survives the first few years without serious leakage, it is not likely, in the absence of artificial disturbance, to succumb owing to leakage at a later period.
But it is never advisable to rely upon this action, where, as in the case of a reservoir for water supply, large portions of naturally permeable bottom are liable to be uncovered and exposed to the weather.
The embankments on either side of the puddle wall are merely to support the puddle and to keep it moist above the ground level when the reservoir is low.
On the other hand, the partial or total failure of smaller dams of this description, to retain the reservoir water, has been much more common in the past than is generally supposed.
Thus the permeable vein grows vertically rather than horizontally, and ultimately assumes the form of a thin vertical sheet traversing the puddle wall, often diagonally in plan, and having a thickness which has varied in different cases from a few inches to a couple of feet or more, of almost clean sand rising to an observed height of 30 or 40 ft., and only arrested in its upward growth by the necessary lowering of the reservoir water to avoid serious danger.
On the appearance of serious leakage the overflow level of the water originally at of was lowered for safety to gh; and for many years the reservoir was worked with its general level much below gh.
Unless such faces are so far below the surface of the puddle, and so related to the lower parts of the trench, that no tension, and consequent tendency to separation of the puddle from the rock, can possibly take place, and unless abundant time is given, before the reservoir is charged, for the settlement and compression of the puddle to be completed, leakage with disastrous results may occur.
Hence it is always a safe precaution to afford plenty of time for such settlement before a reservoir is charged with water.
These fissures are in vertical planes stretching entirely across the puddle trench, and reaching in one case, aa, nearly to the highest level at which the reservoir had been worked for seventeen years after the leakage had been discovered.
Only a knowledge of the great loss of capital that has resulted from abortive reservoir construction justifies this notice of defects which can always be avoided, and are too often the direct result, not of design, but of parsimony in providing during the execution of such works, and especially below ground, a sufficiency of intelligent, experienced and conscientious supervision.
As with many other engineering works, the tendency to slipping either of the sides of the valley or of the reservoir embankment itself has often given trouble, and has sometimes led to serious disaster.
Asphalt, whether a natural product or artificially obtained, as, for example, in some chemical manufactures, is a most useful material if properly employed in connexion with reservoir dams. Under sudden impact it is brittle, and has a conchoidal fracture like glass; but under continued pressure it has the properties of a viscous fluid.
That this work has been regarded as successful is shown by the fact that Reservoir No.
It is clear that the greatest crushing pressure must occur, either, with the reservoir empty, near the lower part of the water face ab.
Having thus determined the outer profile under the conditions hitherto assumed, it must be similarly ascertained that the water face is everywhere cap able of resisting the vertical pressure of the masonry when the reservoir is empty, and the base of each compartment must be widened if necessary in that direction also.
Hence it follows that on the assumption of uniformly varying stress the line of pressures, when the reservoir is full, should not at any horizontal plane fall outside the middle third of the width of that plane.
The distributions of stress on the base line of the model for " reservoir empty " and " reservoir full " are shown in fig.
So far we have only considered water-pressure against the reservoir side of the dam; but it sometimes happens that the water and earth pressure against the outer face is considerable enough to modify the lower part of the section.
As a result of this theory, in the case of a retaining wall supporting a vertical face of earth beneath an extended horizontal plane level with the top of the wall, we get p _ wx 2 1 - sin ii 2 I +sin P' [[Reservoir Empty Reservoir Full Ellipses Of Vertical Pressures On Horizontal Joints]].
It should be impossible, in short, for any part of the rock beneath the dam to become charged with water under pressure, either directly from the water in the reservoir or from higher places in the mountain sides.
The line of pressures as generally given for this dam with the reservoir full, on the hypothesis that the density of the masonry was a little over 2, is shown by long and short dots in fig.
But in reservoir work such coatings are not to be trusted, and a single horizontal crack might admit sufficient water to cause an uplift.
By reason of the constantly changing temperatures and the frequent filling and emptying of the reservoir, expansion and contraction, which are always at work tending to produce relative movements wherever one portion of a structure is weaker than another, must have assisted the water-pressure in the extension of the horizontal cracks, which, growing slowly during the fifteen years, provided at last the area required to enable the intrusive water to overbalance the little remaining stability of the dam.
Lake Vyrnwy, completed in 1889, includes a reservoir which is still by far the largest in Europe.
This reservoir is situated in a true Glacial lake-basin, and having therefore all the appearance of a natural lake, is commonly known as Lake Vyrnwy.
Several of the reservoir sites in Wales, shown by shaded lines in fig.
It is obvious that the water of a reservoir must never be allowed to rise above a certain prescribed height at which the works will be perfectly safe.
But when a reservoir is placed upon a smaller area the conditions are materially changed.
It is only necessary, however, to provide for these exceptional discharges during very short periods, so that the rise in the water-level of the reservoir may be taken into consideration; but subject to this, provision must be made at the bye-wash for preventing such a flood, however rare, from filling the reservoir to a dangerous height.
It is checked even by fine copper wire-gauze strainers, and where the water passes through sand-filter beds in the course of an aqueduct, the growth, though very great between the reservoir and the filter beds, is almost absent between the filter beds and the town.
From these facts it is clear that, other things being the same, the best position for the strainers and filter beds is as close as possible to the reservoir.
The system, however, does not assist in the detection of the leakage which inevitably occurs between the reservoir and the consumer's meter; thus the whole of the mains, joints and ferrules connecting the service pipes with the mains, and the greater parts of the service pipes, are still exposed to leakage without any compensating return to the water authority.
The Amazon is not so much a river as it is a gigantic reservoir, extending from the sea to the base of the Andes, and, in the wet season, varying in width from 5 to 400 m.
Special attention has already been called to the fourteen great streams which discharge into this reservoir, but it receives a multitude of secondary rivers, which in any other part of the world would also be termed great.
This is a long reservoir placed in a horizontal position and supported by columns upon the top of the retort stack, and through it is maintained a slow but constant flow of water, the level of which is kept uniform.
Four thousand cubits to the east the great rampart was built "mountain high," which surrounded both the old and the new town; it was provided with a moat, and a reservoir was excavated in the triangle on the inner side of its south-east corner, the western wall of which is still visible.
This was the resolution adopted by the Egyptian government to extend the great reservoir at the First Cataract by raising the height of the Aswan dam.
One of the greatest improvement projects undertaken by the national Reclamation Service is one on the North Platte, begun in 1903, which contemplates a reservoir in Wyoming of sufficient capacity to store all the surplus waters of that stream, about 600 m.
The kit consists of reservoir pot, inner pot, exterior air pump, clay pebbles, delivery tubes and full instructions.
Cattle are the main reservoir of bluetongue virus which is transmitted by biting midges, although cattle themselves do not generally become ill.
Camelbak 3L Omega reservoir Walking experts the world over, all understand the advantages that a hydration bladder provide when walking.
But American vagrants were far from absent, with the male canvasback returning to Abberton Reservoir and two Ring-billed Gulls by the Thames.
Oil filled the crest of the reservoir first and prevented extensive quartz cementation.
The result is a great movie which, like Reservoir Dogs, shows how a single vision can lead to some seriously classy drama.
To cool the sample, liquid cryogen is drawn from the helium reservoir, through a capillary tube and into a heat exchanger.
Dewar (flask)nning the cryostat, liquid helium is transferred from a storage dewar into the bath reservoir.
Fossil remains of a herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaur may be seen at park headquarters at Hua Phu Chon Reservoir.
Has a good water reservoir, 15 cup espresso coffee capacity and the anti drip device means it isn't too messy.
This massive structure marks the southernmost extremity of an extensive reservoir.
Make sure you have sufficient windscreen washer fluid in the reservoir.
Badley Ashton America, Inc offers the same high quality reservoir geoscience that is provided by our UK and Middle East offices.
The edible seedcrops it was actively stewarding are among Earth's most valuable heirlooms and their reservoir of possible human benefits is absolutely vast.
The building included a back yard lean-to around a water reservoir built from reused barrels.
The absence of wind meant a leisurely lunch till the sea breeze finally made its way to Bewl Reservoir.
For example, the early stages of cement hydration and the surface mineralogy of reservoir rocks are currently under investigation.
The alkyl nitrates are a reservoir species for NO x (=NO 2 + NO ).
These galaxies seem to have consumed only a tiny percentage of their reservoir of gas.
The user must subtract the reservoir deficiency R from the sample radiocarbon age in this case.
The empty planter has a reservoir to capture rainwater in the base, gel crystals are added along with the compost.
At the north end of Kielder Water, Bakethin Reservoir has been declared a nature reserve.
Here we pass another sluice which in time of flood is opened up to fill an impounding reservoir.
However, this rainfall did little to assist the replenishment of already severly depleted reservoir at Ravensthorpe.
No user intervention such as refilling a reservoir is required.
Rutland Water is the largest man-made reservoir in Britain, covering some 3100 acres of water.
Is there an untapped reservoir of help and practical support ' out there ' for prisoners or is this already exhausted by prisoners?
A couple of groups were unlucky enough to get soaking wet in the underground reservoir.
The instrument was then tested on core samples from a hydrocarbon reservoir in the North Sea.
A theory to quantify the amount of melt in the magma reservoir will be developed.
Understanding and predicting sandstone reservoir quality in petroleum systems.
Also nearby is picturesque reservoir where you can fish, cycle, walk or just admire the scenery.
There is a substantial section on sedimentation, which focuses on stream load measurement and the problems of reservoir sedimentation.
Several hypothetical scenarios that could provide a coupling between regional seismicity and reservoir hydraulics are proposed and evaluated.
From August 1994 until May 1997, a network of 8 three-component digital seismographs operated at the Acu reservoir.
The other was the second sighting of a red-backed shrike at Lower Barden reservoir on 15th June.
Reservoir Dogs actor Michael Madsen wants to play the legendary singer in Irvine based Director Joey Martin's £ 2million film.
In the extreme, a reservoir may become virtually stagnant.
It is located near an old tinner 's reservoir and consists of a single rough set stone inscribed with the letter ' H ' .
On the green there is a large ancient reservoir feeding a trough.
With relatively few wild animals now in the region, local cattle have become the main reservoir for human trypanosomes responsible for sleeping sickness.
You cannot set a dose greater than the n umber of units remaining in the reservoir.
Our aim is to quantify uncertainty in flow performance prediction due to uncertainty in a reservoir description.
The university uses the equivalent of a small reservoir of water each year; 20 million liters alone are used simply for flushing urinals.
Those which are only partially submerged bear stomata on their exposed portions, so that their environment approximates towards that of a terrestrial plant, but the communication even in their case is much less easy and complete, so that they need amuchlarger reservoir of air in their interior.
It is by far the largest reservoir in the world, 2 yet 2 The dam is 1250 ft.
Connected with the reservoir is an aqueduct, of which 2 m.
The southern reservoir is Albert Edward Nyanza.
Torricelli, observing that in a jet where the water rushed through a small ajutage it rose to nearly the same height with the reservoir from which it was supplied, imagined that it ought to move with the same velocity as if it had fallen through that height by the force of gravity, and hence he deduced the proposition that the velocities of liquids are as the square root of the head, apart from the resistance of the air and the friction of the orifice.
Waste weirs resemble ordinary solid weirs in providing for the surplus discharge from a reservoir of an impounded river or mountain stream over their crest; but in reality they form part of a masonry reservoir dam for storing up water for water-supply or irrigation, kept purposely lower than the rest of the dam to allow the excess of water to escape down the valley (see Water-Supply).
The smaller includes a reservoir at Syncrasi (Famagusta), with a catchment of 27 sq.
For the sections of masonry dams actually used in practice, if designed on the condition that the centre of all vertical pressures when the reservoir is full shall be, as hereafter provided, at two-thirds the width of the base from the inner toe, the least sectional area for a density of 2 also has a vertical water face.
There are many structures at present in existence bearing considerably greater loads than this, and the granite ashlar masonry of at least one, the Bear Valley dam in California, is subject to compressive stresses, reaching, when the reservoir is full, at least 40 to 50 tons per sq.
Any cracks were thus, no doubt, temporarily closed; and as the structure of the rest of the dam was porous, no opportunity was given for the percolating water to accumulate in the horizontal fissures to anything like the head in the reservoir.
The plan was to connect Rowlands Gill with the Victoria Garesfield Reservoir by means of a pipe alongside the colliery railroad to Pipe Bridge.
Fill the reservoir with enough wax to run from the spout.
This path drops down into the valley below the reservoir dam, which is currently being managed to allow the growth of native woodland.
Hutton reservoir simulation model An Eclipse 100 simulation model was provided by Kerr McGee for archiving.
I sent off the details and it was ringed as a chick at Abberton Reservoir in Essex in 2000.
From this reservoir the town received its scanty supply.
The western part of the field began producing in 1937 from the fractured schist reservoir.
Epidural and subarachnoid trials were of catheter alone, catheter with reservoir or catheter with pump.
It is located near an old tinner 's reservoir and consists of a single rough set stone inscribed with the letter ' H '.
They function as integrators, connecting subsurface and topside engineering activities to bring oil or gas from the reservoir to the surface.
A digital copy was quickly transmitted over the Internet to London for Reservoir 's performance.
The project site was a working water supply reservoir between 1906 and 1979.
Approximately a quarter of the dentists had installed an independent water reservoir system but only 17% used sterilized water in the reservoir.
About 800 meters from the dam the waterworks road bridges Black Clough, at which point the reservoir bends round to the left.
Dehumidifiers can either be permanently fitted so the water drains as it is collected, or they can be portable, which means that the reservoir needs to be emptied manually.
If it is not possible to manually empty the reservoir during the day, a dehumidifier that can be permanently plumbed in may be required.
Oceans are a major reservoir of carbon dioxide.
Add your favorite children's mentholated vaporizer solution to the reservoir and switch on the unit.
Each needle extends a couple of millimeters beyond its own ink reservoir, which is loaded with a small amount of ink.
Reservoir - The storage container that holds the liquid nutrient solution, these are usually made from 5 gallon buckets or plastic storage bins.
Air pump - An aquarium air pump is used with the deep water culture or reservoir method of hydroponic growing, where the plant roots actually sit in the liquid nutrient solution.
Deep Water Culture (Reservoir Method) - One of the easiest growing systems, individual plant containers with holes in the bottom sit in a reservoir that contains a couple of inches of liquid nutrient solution.
Flood and Drain (Ebb and Flow) - The plant containers sit above the nutrient reservoir.
Once the pump shuts off, the liquid drains back into the reservoir.
Wick System - Absorbent material, such as nylon rope, extends from the individual plant containers down into the nutrient reservoir.
The pump reservoir is filled with the prescribed amount of medication.
The medication is dispensed, either continuously or at certain intervals as determined by the doctor, via a tiny motor in the pump that moves the medication from the pump reservoir through the catheter.
The system also has an alarm to indicate when the reservoir needs to be refilled, the battery is low, or the pump is not delivering the medication.
Once beyond access to the river below, the seldom-used path presented an unbroken cover of fresh white, now blanketed in more than a foot of fresh powder, as it followed the large pipe toward the reservoir.
The main requisites for a productive oil or gas field are a porous reservoir and an impervious cover.
When the results of this theory were compared with the quantity of water actually discharged, Newton concluded that the velocity with which the water issued from the orifice was equal to that which a falling body would receive by descending through half the height of water in the reservoir.
He supposed that the surface of the fluid, contained in a vessel which is emptying itself by an orifice, remains always horizontal; and, if the fluid mass is conceived to be divided into an infinite number of horizontal strata of the same bulk, that these strata remain contiguous to each other, and that all their points descend vertically, with velocities inversely proportional to their breadth, or to the horizontal sections of the reservoir.
Liquids, again, can be poured from one open vessel into another, and can be kept in an uncovered vessel, but a gas tends to diffuse itself indefinitely and must be preserved in a closed reservoir.
If the distribution of the thrust is not uniform, as, for instance, on a vertical or inclined face or wall of a reservoir, then P/A represents the average pressure over the area; and the actual pressure at any point is the average pressure over a small area enclosing the point.
At Fordsburg are the gas and electric light and power works, and north of Doornfontein there is a large reservoir.
The acid gland consists of one, two or more tubes, with a cellular coat of several layers, opening into a reservoir whence the duct leads to the exterior.
The alkaline gland is an irregular tube with a single cellular layer, its duct opening alongside that of the acid reservoir.
Hence, when in 1850 a hydraulic installation was required for a new ferry station at New Holland, on the Humber estuary, the absence of water mains of any kind, coupled with the prohibitive cost of a special reservoir owing to the character of the soil, impelled him to invent a fresh piece of apparatus, the "accumulator," which consists of a large cylinder containing a piston that can be loaded to give any desired pressure, the water being pumped in below it by a steam-engine or other prime mover.
From these side-valleys water was now conducted to Olympia, entering the Altis at its north-east corner by an arched canal which passed behind the treasure-houses to the reservoir at the back of the exedra.
Iron pipes are the best conductors; they should lead to a capacious open reservoir placed outside the garden, and at the highest convenient level, in order to secure sufficient pressure for effective distribution, and so that the wall trees also may be effectually washed.
To increase the reservoir capacity of the polder, as well as to conduct the water to the windmills or engines, it is intersected by a network of ditches cut at right angles to each other, the amount of ditching required being usually one-twelfth of the area to be drained.
On its way from the blast furnace to the converter or open hearth furnace the pig iron is often passed through a great reservoir called a " mixer," which acts also as an equalizer, to lessen the variation in composition of the cast iron, and as a purifier, removing part of the sulphur and silicon.
This " mixer " is a great reservoir into which successive lots of molten cast iron from all the blast-furnaces available are poured, forming a great molten mass of from 200 to 750 tons.
North of this plain are the five springs of et-Tabighah, the largest of which was enclosed about a century ago in an octagonal reservoir by `Ali, son of Dhahr el-Amir, and the water led off by an aqueduct 52 ft.
The reservoir is said to contain 130 million cub.
The Elche reservoir, in the same province, has a similar dam 55 ft.
An irrigation reservoir, like a human being, has a certain life.
Quicker or slower, the water that fills it will wash in sand and mud, and year by year this process will go on till ultimately the whole reservoir is filled up. The embankment is raised, and raised again, but at last it is better to abandon it and make a new tank elsewhere, for it would never pay to dig out the silt by manual labour.
The town obtains its chief supply of water from moorlands situated on the Old Red Sandstone formation in the valley of the Cray, a tributary of the Usk in Breconshire where a reservoir of 1,000,000,000 gallons capacity has been constructed at a cost of £547,759, under parliamentary powers obtained in 1892, 1902 and 1905.
A reservoir was begun in 1904 just below the junction of the Tonto and the Salt with capacity to store 1,330,000 acre-ft.
The storage capacity is exceeded by probably but one reservoir in the world - the Wachusett reservoir near Boston.
Its public works include an interesting old reservoir, called the "Ojo de Agua," and the "Puente Nuevo" (new bridge).
The very heavy rainfall of the district, which is the wettest in England, has led to the utilization of Thirlmere as a reservoir for the water supply of Manchester, over 80 m.
It looks like the beginning of success of an effort made by a slight percolation during the whole life of the reservoir to increase itself materially by erosion.
Canals were dug throughout the country and a great reservoir excavated near the capital.
Infected young children serve as a reservoir of infection.
A port is a small reservoir or container that is placed in a vein or under the skin in the area where the drug will be given.
This will be your water reservoir and will also house your submersible water pump, so you need to have enough depth to completely cover the water pump with water.
Center your urn over the reservoir so that the water falls directly into the pool below.
You also want to make sure that the stones blend into the surrounding area outside the pool area so you can't tell that there is a hidden reservoir beneath the urn.
Aroma lamps have an upper reservoir filled with water and essential oil.
Leave a small reservoir at the end of the condom for ejaculate.
To use the bubbles, you must push down on the bottle then it will fill up the reservoir and be ready to use.
The water reservoir holds the water for brewing on the single-serve coffee makers.
The reservoir is made of thin plastic that may break if dropped or exposed to high heat.
If broken, the water reservoir will need replaced.
If you choose a shaver that includes a lint catcher, be sure to dump the reservoir after each use so that it does not become overly full or clogged.
Another type of portable air conditioner uses a water reservoir to cool the air through evaporation.
The Fiji Frozen Concoction Maker has a large capacity reservoir making it perfect to hold large amounts of ice.
The reservoir holds enough ice for a full pitcher of drinks per cycle.
Pour water directly into the reservoir until it reaches the recommended level.
Wet reservoir vacuuming is an innovative means of cleaning the home that requires no bag replacements and it has been proven to increase the quality of indoor air.
Instead of dirt being collected into a vacuum bag or a plastic container, the Rainbow vacuum contains a water reservoir with a built-in separator system that removes dust, dirt and other particles from the air while vacuuming.
The Rainbow's technically advanced separator makes sure that all the dust and dirt collected by the machine remains in the water reservoir and never allows it to re-enter the atmosphere.
All you need to do is fill the water reservoir of your single serve coffee maker, insert the coffee pod and press start.
These properties include tithes, tithe commutation rent charge, land used as arable, meadow or pasture ground only, or as woodlands, market gardens or nursery grounds, orchards, allotments, any land covered with water such as the reservoir of a waterworks company, or used only as a canal or towing-path of the same, or as a railway constructed under the powers of any Act of Parliament for public conveyance.
Various remains of the Roman period exist between the walls, including a large water reservoir divided into ten chambers.
In 1852 great destruction was wrought in the town by the bursting of a reservoir in the vicinity.
As the plains on the Rolling Downs formation are mostly waterless, the discovery of this deep reservoir of water has been of great aid in the development of central Australia.