The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the dam removed after concluding that the environmental and economic benefits of a free-flowing river outweighed the electricity generated by the dam.
美国联邦能源监管委员会得出结论说，一条自由流动的河流所带来的环境和经济效益超过了大坝产生的电力，因此下令拆除大坝。
The stunning landscapes of Colorado provide a back drop for the Glen Canyon dam, which is build on the Colorado River in Arizona.
葛兰峡谷大坝以科罗拉多州的美好风景为背景，建于亚利桑那州的科罗拉多河上。
He has also promised to use Chinese loans to build a controversial dam on the Omo River in the south.
他还承诺用中国的借款在南部奥莫河上修建一座有争议的水坝。
Thirdly, recent reports in India said that China will build a dam on the upstream of Yalu Tsangpo River.
第三个问题，近日印度媒体有报道称中方在雅鲁藏布江上游修建水坝。
A boatman paddles his bamboo raft along the river at Wawa Dam, Philippines.
菲律宾船夫沿着瓦瓦坝河划着竹筏。
In that year "a defect at the dam opened the gates, making a toxic layer of hard metals deposited at the bottom of the river come up" to the surface, she said.
就是那年，大坝的门户错误的打开，使得那些原本位于河流底部的有毒重金属层浮到了表面，她继续说道。
River sediment is a major threat that could undo all the positive effects the dam is supposed to bring.
河流中泥沙的堆积将是一个由大坝修建所产生的，能抵消所有正面影响的巨大威胁。
Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.
建堤坝来阻断河流，既阻挡了回流产卵的鱼，又阻碍了下游淤泥肥沃土壤。
Severe monsoon rains in the summer of 2010 led to a dam failure on the Indus River, which subsequently split in two.
2010年夏季强烈的季风降水导致印度河一座大坝的崩溃，随即裂成两段。
A massive landslide early this year formed a natural dam in the Hunza River created a lake that is consuming upstream as it expands.
年初的滑坡在罕萨河上形成一个自然大坝，构成向上游扩展的堰塞湖。
A 1, 900-foot span across the Colorado River shadows the Hoover dam.
跨度1900英尺，横穿科罗拉多河胡佛大坝的水库。
It was formed in the 1960s with a huge dam across the Angara River to provide hydroelectric power.
该水库建于上世纪60年代，同时在安加拉河上建有一个巨大的水坝，提供水力发电。
The best means we should resort to is to build a long dam along the river.
我们应当采取的最好措施是沿河筑起一道长长的坝。
Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.
用大坝阻断河流使得鱼类无法逆流而上去产卵，同时淤泥无法顺流而下去肥沃土地。
Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.
渔民雷·特纳在纽约德拉瓦河东支流手工建造了这个V字形石头溢流堰，或称鱼梁。从它的墙壁漏过的鳗鱼进入木制的收集架内。
In one part of the upper reaches of the Madison river, a whole mountain began shifting, then came crashing down to fill the deep valley and dam the great river with millions of tons rock and trees.
在麦迪生河上游的一条支流处，一整座山开始移动，之后，它崩塌下来填满深深的山谷，上百万吨岩石和大树如坝般阻挡住大河。
Having long been the most accessible river crossing between Nevada and Arizona, the dam is thought to be at risk of a terror strike, with trucks already banned from crossing.
胡佛大坝长期作为内华达州和亚利桑那州主要的交通连接处，虽然卡车已经禁止通行，但是大坝依然面临恐怖袭击的威胁。
The flooding started after the Kosi River broke a dam in Nepal and breached mud embankments in Bihar State in India a week ago.
洪水爆发是因为一个星期前尼泊尔境内的戈西河上一座大坝坍塌，导致下游印度境内比哈尔邦的土筑河堤决堤。
A consortium led by Chesf, a state-owned electricity generator, won a contract to build the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam on the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon.
由圣弗朗西斯科水电公司这所州立的发电机公司领头的联营企业在致力于在巴西的亚马逊河的兴谷河上建造世界第三大水力发电大坝的合同上取得优势。
Usually, to ensure that the flow downstream remains unaffected during the period of construction of a dam, the water is diverted through streams around the construction site and returned to the river.
通常，为确保下游地区在大坝建设期间不受影响，水流被分流进建设区域后，将再被引回江内。
The reservoir created by the backflow of the dam will extend 360 miles up river to Chongqing (" Chong-ching "), a distance equal to nearly half the length of California.
大坝形成的长达360英里(579公里)的水库延伸至重庆，距离约为美国加利福尼亚州长度的一半。
Following a dam failure in August, the Indus river essentially split in two, sending some water downstream on the Indus, and some water over vast stretches of agricultural land west of the river.
由于8月间一起溃坝事故，印度河洪水实际上一分为二——一部分注入下游的印度河，另一部分蔓延至河西侧广大的农田区。
Following a dam failure in August, the Indus river essentially split in two, sending some water downstream on the Indus, and some water over vast stretches of agricultural land west of the river.
由于8月间一起溃坝事故，印度河洪水实际上一分为二——一部分注入下游的印度河，另一部分蔓延至河西侧广大的农田区。
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