Tilting weir
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tilting-weir-313-4857645
title:
Tilting weir
text:
A tilting weir or tilting gate is a moveable weir that is used for raising and lowering a head of water by controlling the flow of water to a lower catchment area or drainage basin. Typically the plate or paddle of the tilting weir moves up and down in a narrow duct by titling, pivoting or rotating on its bottom horizontal axis - which opens or closes the tilting weir thus controlling the flow of water out of the higher drainage basin. For example, a reservoir, lake, duct, channel, river, pond,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of weir
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_weir
date created:
date modified:
2023-11-20T22:14:34Z
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13
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