Stream and river control works may have a serious local influence on accelerating channel erosion.

水流及河流控制工程对加速河道冲刷有严重影响。

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During the general works measures of the river regulation in the middle and lower Yangtze river, the channel revetment is a principle engineering of river control.

在长江中下游干流河道综合治理工程措施中，护岸工程是一项最基本的整治工程。

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In nineteen eighteen, a man named Arthur Davis proposed building a dam to control the Colorado River.

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With Vicksburg in Union hands, the North could control the whole length of the river.

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If the Union could capture New Orleans, it would control the Mississippi River.

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McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.

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The weir, which is used to control river levels, lies upstream of Hampton Court Palace and was built in 1883.

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Among these, Brazil is exceptional in that many of its dams also serve to control river levels and provide irrigation, thus making them hard to regulate satisfactorily if privatised.

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