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floodgate N fig

to open the floodgates

дать во́лю (чему́-ли́бо)

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This makes it easier for salmon to find their spawning ground which is situated below the floodgates in the dam created for the power station. en.wikipedia.org

The player must wait a set amount of time on a red square on the map until the floodgates are destroyed. en.wikipedia.org

The dam contains a surface controlled spillway with three floodgates, each with a maximum discharge capacity for a total of. en.wikipedia.org

The dam would support a power station and its spillway would serve as the complex's principal spillway with 17 floodgates and a maximum discharge. en.wikipedia.org

The barrage is controlled by 25 floodgates and has a length of. en.wikipedia.org

With three floodgates open, outflows of 55 m3/s can be achieved through either automatic or manual operation of the dam. en.wikipedia.org

Between 1940 and 1941, the dam's eleven floodgates were installed on the spillway and the dam's first generator went into operation in. en.wikipedia.org

The dam's spillway will be 108m ft long and floodgate-controlled with having a maximum discharge capacity of 18000m3/s ft3/s. en.wikipedia.org

The engineers calculated that twelve floodgates provided a large enough margin of safety. en.wikipedia.org

These bridges also doubled as regulators for the canals waters due to the floodgates on their supporting arches. en.wikipedia.org

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