earth dam in a sentence

Examples

1. A major programme of civil engineering work to strengthen and reshape the earth dams was carried out in 1985.
2. Finally, in 1956, the compacted-earth dam for Timothy Lake was completed, creating the largest lake in the system at and.
3. A mass earth dam with a MP, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, performed the ceremony in September 1957.
4. The dredge is located at its final point of operation in a pond contained by a partly breached earth dam.
5. The Eller Beck storage reservoir will consist of an earth dam with a length of and a maximum height of.
6. The earth dam on the eastern bank is 4 km long, and that on the western bank is 8.5 km long.
7. A zoned-earth dam has distinct parts or zones of dissimilar material, typically a locally plentiful shell with a watertight clay core.
8. In order to generate an effective supply of energy, plans called for an earth dam, increasing the storage capacity of the lake.
9. The location of the proposed reservoir was remote and large quantities of construction materials would be required to construct the earth dam.
10. The reservoir was created in 1973 by the damming of the Wendebach stream, a tributary of the Leine, with an earth dam.