wing dam in a sentence

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1. Folsom Dam was built in 1955 as a concrete dam flanked by earth wing dams and dikes, with a total length of about nine miles.
2. The Mississippi River in North America has thousands of wing dams which were originally constructed to reduce the amount of channel was maintained to at least.
3. Banks and others approved a plan proposed by Joseph Bailey to build wing dams as a means to raise what little water was left in the channel.
4. In 1868, the Corps began to experiment with wing dams and dredging to sluice out a 6-foot ( 1.8 m ) deep channel.
5. Joseph Bailey's attempts to get Porter's squadron over the rapids there, with the aid of Bailey's Dam and two small wing dams upstream.
6. He built 100 miles of wing dams on the upper Mississippi River and produced a 40-foot channel between St . Paul and the mouth of the Missouri River.
7. The Dam is 1400 feet wide and 340 feet high, it is a concrete structure with approximately 9 miles of earth fill wing dams and dikes supporting its surrounding areas.
8. In 1908, a new wing dam out from the head gates into the river was completed, bringing in enough water to run a second turbine, doubling the station's output to.
9. The Upper Missouri River is north of Gavins Point Dam, the last hydroelectric dam of locks but it has a plethora of wing dams that enable barge traffic by directing the flow of the river into a, channel.
10. There are four wing dams on the right and five on the left . At the location of the mid-course bridge, two wing dams are directly across from each other, narrowing the channel by one third.