The dam was silted up because the surrounding roads had not been properly surfaced, says resident engineer Cass Bhamiee. |
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Aerial surveys revealed that a small Rhine tributary had once carved an island here, and the silted channel was promptly dredged. |
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But, as the main waterways became silted up and were impoldered, the character of the city changed. |
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Through the logging practice streams silted up, and the waters were warmed to a level unsuitable for the survival of fry. |
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Of course, we would be told that the river has now silted up and that at low tide it would be impossible. |
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The defendants erected ferry terminals in the Thames, and, as a result, parts of the river bed silted up. |
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Old Goa remained the colony's capital until I759, when the Mandovi River silted up. |
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I would mix the soil in the heavily silted water of the Mekong River as a way to spread this handful of soil throughout Vietnam. |
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Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily silted riverbed. |
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What was once a sluggish, silted and overgrown stream has been transformed into a gushing torrent thanks to the hard work of a conservation team. |
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A pump is usually required to remove silted site water arising in dewatered work areas. |
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Fish are taken from the river in places where it is badly silted and basically what happens is that they are stripped and hatched to the ova stage. |
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A simple settling pond was built, but heavily silted water entered the river and was seen 1.5 miles downstream. |
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Many devastated homes needed major rebuilding, and the wells providing the water supply were damaged, uncared for and partly silted up. |
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Contributing factors are drainage channels that have silted in and no longer shed the collected water. |
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In order to prevent silt from entering the stream a second pump is used to remove silted water from the work area inside the cofferdams. |
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They live in rocky areas along the continental slope, near boulder fields and on silted or cobbled bottoms, at depths between 25 and 900 metres. |
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The work was eventually stopped, and the dredged channel is probably already completely silted up. |
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Thousands of silted stock-ponds, power and drinking water reservoirs, and miles of muddy flooding rivers show the effect of this devegetation. |
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These early ditches had silted up a number of times and at one stage, metalworking had taken place in the sheltered area provided by the ditch banks. |
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There are no open drains, fortunately, or they'd be silted by now. |
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The lagoon will also have to be dredged as it is heavily silted and the fish are dying because the water is too shallow and the lagoon is not being adequately flushed. |
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Rice fields which have silted up too much to be used for rice cultivation can still be used to produce fish. |
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Water in reservoirs, especially in water-storage dams, becomes silted with vegetation and matter washed off land upstream. |
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This silted water should be treated by discharging to settling basins, vegetated areas or sediment traps prior to release to streams. |
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Now they are often silted up, polluted with pesticides, metals and phosphorus, or built on. |
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Have you looked at eelgrass in other locations, for example in silted water, in other areas? |
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As a result, the side channels were silted in to a very large extent, and this continues. |
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The mouths of some tributaries, such as the Sainte-Anne and Bécancour rivers, sometimes become silted up. |
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When sampling silted fields, make sure the samples represent the soil mix that will exist after deposited silt is mixed with the original topsoil. |
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The moat surrounding the castle had become silted over the centuries since it was created despite attempts at clearing it. |
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The medieval Cinque Ports, except for the Port of Dover, have all now silted up. |
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Whenever a head gate silted up, a cut was made around it. |
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Over time — perhaps in a period of only a few hundred years — the lake had silted up, leaving the Mare aux Songes as an immaculate record of a recent prehuman moment. |
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By the end of the 20th century, its reservoir had almost completely silted in, causing floodwaters to regularly overtop the dam and cause serious erosion. |
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Its consequences could be seen in the disappearance of forests and of species such as crocodiles and other wildlife, resulting from silted rivers and gullies as well as soil erosion. |
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However, it was later abandoned for a time and in the early 3rd century the ditch naturally silted up. |
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The two docks had by then long silted up, imprisoning the rotting hulk of an old wooden ship, the Bollam. |
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The city remained an important port until the middle of the Ming dynasty era, when its harbor slowly silted up. |
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In these circumstances the use of a pump to remove silted water contained within cofferdams is necessary to prevent siltation of downstream areas. |
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Others have been badly maintained or have simply silted up. |
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However, many dams in southern and eastern Mediterranean countries will lose most of their storage capacity because they are becoming silted up and few countries will still be able to exploit them in the long term. |
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After the tunnel, other port facilities are to be constructed, and, for example, the expanses of water between the old wharf, the Busazza, and via Genova are to be silted up. |
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The RCMP divers reported that the fuselage was damaged, although, with underwater visibility of less than one metre in the heavily silted lake, they were unable to determine the extent of that damage. |
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But this channel wasn't stabilised and now it is a mile wide and as a result the old channel has silted up and the mouth of the river has closed to form a lagoon. |
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This was reflected by a shallowing of water depth, as the basin silted up. |
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The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried. |
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The effects of the large scale of early tin streaming were felt on the coast, as several harbours silted up due to the amount of fine material that was washed down the rivers. |
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This used to be the site of Chester's Roman harbour until, aided by the building of the weir, the River Dee silted up to become the size it is today. |
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