ice blockage

Underfoot, channels of water ran into the room as the ice blockage melted.

They had got stuck behind the ice blockage precisely because Way maintenance lacked the usual resources to clear it.

The cause of the flooding was determined to be ice blockages at Durham's reinforced dams.

Water accumulates sufficiently to open the ice blockage in the tunnel valley which accumulated after the last discharge.

On a small scale the term can be used for ice blockages of gutters and spouts on buildings.

The cataracts themselves do not freeze, though on rare occasions the flow of the American Falls has been cut off by ice blockage upstream.

An approach to determine the origin and age of massive ice blockage in two Arctic caves, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 1993.

The official cause of the accident, the worst in the airline's history, is incorrect speed readings due to pitot tube ice blockage, followed by inappropriate pilot inputs.

Also carefully lag any overflow pipes, so that should there be a ball valve failure there is no risk of an ice blockage building up in the overflow.

The Inari Basin was created after the last glacial period when an ice blockage in the Pasvik River hindered the draining of melted water in the area.

The upper reaches of the Pho Chhu are susceptible to ice blockages, and the dzong has been damaged on several occasions by glacial outburst floods (GLOF).

In late August 2008, it was reported that images from the NASA Aqua satellite had revealed that the last ice blockage of the Northern Sea Route in the Laptev Sea had melted.

The fear being voiced now was also voiced then: that if the ice blockage is severe and protracted, the lake may swell and spill its banks, flooding the Situk River and smaller streams east of Yakutat that are vital to the area's commercial and sport fishing industries.