buttress dam in a sentence

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1. Designed by John S . Eastwood, and constructed between 1914 and 1925, the dam is an example of a mixed buttress dam and multiple arch dam construction.
2. Designed in 1911 by Nils F . Ambursen as the largest concrete buttress dam of its kind, the dam is still privately owned by the Empire District Electric Company.
3. For the new scheme, the cirque basin was dammed at its eastern end by a concrete gravity buttress dam, long, and a maximum of high above its foundations.
4. The concrete buttress dam was constructed between 1926 and 1928 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 153 feet and 868 feet long at its crest.
5. The eastern portion of the site consists of an overflow Ambursen dam, which is a buttress dam where the upstream part is a relatively thin flat slab usually made of reinforced concrete.
6. Lake Solitude dam, replacing the crib dam of 1858, replaced in 1909, is the last remaining example of a buttress dam in New Jersey, built by master engineer Frank S . Tainter.
7. These include arch-gravity dams, arch dams, buttress dams and multiple arch buttress dams, all of which were known and employed by the 2nd century AD ( see List of Roman dams ).
8. These include arch-gravity dams, arch dams, buttress dams and multiple arch buttress dams, all of which were known and employed by the 2nd century AD ( see List of Roman dams ).
9. The bottommost level shows that the wall with doors and watchtowers is actually a massive hydroelectric buttress dam, with pipes and water valves here for maintenance . in addition, there is a room containing a small prison cell with a concrete floor covered with water from a pipe, its valve sabotaged so said floor cannot be indefinitely dry.