flood control reservoir

They are natural water filtration plants and flood control reservoirs.

Lake Wister, a flood control reservoir, is in the central part of the county.

Alamo Lake, a flood control reservoir, lies just west of the confluence of the two tributaries.

A large flood control reservoir (necessary due to the low-lying terrain and high groundwater level) and a parking lot have been built under the square.

The Corps of Engineers was responsible for building flood control reservoirs and flood protection levees.

Because of its volume, the lake serves as the primary flood control reservoir of the Highland Lake chain.

Lake Whitney is a flood control reservoir on the main stem of the Brazos River in Texas.

The idea of a flood control reservoir like Benbrook Lake, is that floodwaters from heavy rains are retained above the dam.

A short stretch of heavy whitewater is found below the dam, before the river reaches the impoundment zone for the Franklin Falls flood control reservoir.

The Youghiogheny River Lake is a flood control reservoir in southwestern Pennsylvania and western Maryland.

Both are flood control reservoirs built and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In August 1935, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill for nine flood control reservoirs to be built above Pittsburgh.

The agency was created through an act of the state legislature in 1959 specifically to construct a flood control reservoir in response to a flooding event in 1955.

Bluestone Lake is a flood control reservoir located on the New River near Hinton, West Virginia.

Flood water runoff flows into these water bodies practically turning these into buffer flood control reservoirs, except some pockets of transient water-logging.

In 1952, Cagles Mill Lake was built as Indiana's first flood control reservoir, protecting the Eel and White river watersheds.

Near Villa Park, the Villa Park Dam forms a flood control reservoir to control spills from Irvine Lake.

The river rises in the coastal mountains of Mendocino County, north of the city of Ukiah, and flows into Lake Mendocino, a major flood control reservoir.

Present: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to operate several flood control reservoirs within the Brazos River basin, including Lake Whitney.

From there, the Santa Ana flows southwest, and after passing through the city of Riverside, it discharges into the normally dry flood control reservoir formed by Prado Dam.

Burnsville Lake is both a recreational and flood control reservoir on Little Kanawha River located southeast of Burnsville in Braxton County, West Virginia.

It is one of four major flood control reservoirs for the Cumberland; the others being Wolf Creek Dam, Dale Hollow Dam, and Center Hill Dam.

Flood control - also known as an "attenuation" or "balancing" reservoirs, flood control reservoirs collect water at times of very high rainfall, then release it slowly during the following weeks or months.

Its flow through the Tulsa area is controlled by upstream flood control reservoirs, but its width and depth can vary widely throughout the year, such as during periods of high rainfall or severe drought.

Pumped-storage hydroelectric plants would have been built between Los Banos Grandes and the existing Los Banos flood control reservoir, and between that reservoir and the aqueduct.