retaining dam

From 1969 leakage was detected in the retaining dam.

The back of his mind burst its retaining dam and washed forward with grisly abandon.

The retaining dam and many of the ancillary works have been consolidated and extended in recent years.

Scrap pieces can be sawed to rectangular shapes and used for straight side retaining dams.

Large areas were flooded with over 5 million cubic metres of contaminated hazardous waste water from mining operations when a retaining dam burst.

The name 'Wallen' (walls) refers to the medieval retaining dam walls in the old center of Amsterdam.

In 2006, flood damage from Tropical Storm Ernesto caused the earthen retaining dam which formed the lake to burst and empty.

Club-available waters include the 13 hectare Kamplake, the 8 hectare Westerwiese, the 2.5 hectare Holl'sche Brook, and the Bode River area between the Wolmirsleben Stappen-bridge and the Rothenförde retaining dam.

On 4 October 2010, a retaining dam failed on one of the red mud ponds at the company's Ajka alumina factory, spilling 600,000-700,000 cubic metres of highly alkaline and corrosive (caustic) red mud arising as a residual product from the treatment of bauxite with sodium hydroxide.

The weir, on the Water of Coyle, was at the Mill o'Shiel and water, having driven the old water wheel, was discharged into the Millmannoch Dam from which a circa one-mile long lade conveyed it to the retaining dam above the mill at Millmannoch.