Lexicographical Neighbors of Headworks
Literary usage of Headworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"CHAPTER X headworks AND DIVERSION WEIRS 16o. Location of headworks.—The headworks
of a canal are generally placed where the stream emerges from the hills. ..."
2. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"headworks. b. Turnouts. c. Spillways. d. Drops, and checks. e. ... Location of
headworks.—The first requirement for a suitable diversion point is permanence ..."
3. Manual of Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1893)
"The headworks of a canal consist— 1. Of the diversion weir, in which is usually
built: 2. A set of scouring sluices ; 3. Of a regulator at the head of the ..."
4. Manual of Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1896)
"CHAPTER X. headworks AND DIVERSION WEIRS. 155. Location of headworks.—The headworks
of a canal are generally placed where the stream emerges from the hills. ..."
5. Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation Works: Including the Flow of Water in by Patrick John Flynn (1892)
"The headworks of this canal are situated on the left bank of the Kaweah River,
in Section 30, T. 17 S., It. 27 E. At this ..."
6. Report of Irrigation Investigations in California by Elwood Mead, William Ellsworth Smythe (1901)
"A, Lower Kings Kiver Canal; B, headworks of Emigrant Omal; ... headworks of Smith
Millrace Ditch; E, headworks of Turner Ditch; F, headworks of Reed Ditch. ..."
7. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"These conditions frequently require a strong weir in a narrow gorge and difficult
and expensive construction of headworks and diversion line, with frequent ..."
8. River and Canal Engineering: The Characteristics of Open Flowing Streams by Edward Skelton Bellasis (1913)
"A Canal with headworks in a River.—In the case of a canal taking off from a river
and provided with complete headworks, it is possible to do a great deal ..."
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