head of water

In places the river has been built up to provide additional head of water to drive them.

It was built to provide a head of water for driving logs.

To provide a head of water for the mill there is a weir.

"When we get a good head of water behind this soft dam, then I rip the thing open."

This has been a dry year, but the stream is flowing now with a fair head of water.

A mill was built to exploit the head of water created by the two dams.

A good head of water is needed to make a success of the opening endeavor.

We'd have our own generator too, only there's not a big enough head of water to our spring.

Weirs were often built to divert and provide a head of water for the many mills.

Where there is a plentiful head of water it can be made to generate compressed air directly without moving parts.

The original purpose was to create a head of water to power Upper Mill, which is nearby.

A sufficient head of water to power the mill was created by a weir system and a millpond.

(Ensure a sufficient head of water is available to prime the pump)

The Siporax is only half submerged, so that a head of water never covers the biological media.

This increased the head of water.

The building was located close to his home at Tan-yr-Allt, because the high ground behind it provided a good head of water.

The name of the river comes from a Native American word meaning either "pickerel" or "head of water".

A good head of water.

"Build up another head of water?"

"That's one huge head of water, sir."

The gas, as given off, was cooled and purified by being passed through a head of water kept cool and containing lime in solution.

Flash locks were commonly built into small dams or weirs where a head of water was used for powering a mill.

However, the whole upstream head of water had to be drained (by some auxiliary method approaching modern sluices) before a boat could pass.

"judicious manipulation of its components, adding a tree here or a concealed head of water there.

The head of Water Power pointed to Bronson.