Water terms starting with P

215 terms

  1. Publics Any interested group or individual, including Federal, State and local agencies, interest groups, ad hoc groups, and the general public.
  2. Puddle To compact loose soil by soaking it and allowing it to dry.
  3. Puddling A method of compacting soil with the soil deposited into a pool of water and then stirred or rodded.
  4. Pull shovel (dragshovel or hoe) A shovel with a hinge-and-stick mounted bucket that digs while being pulled inward.
  5. Pump See centrifugal pump, diaphragm pump, jetting pump.
  6. Pump-back system A return-flow system in which tailwater is pumped back to the head of an irrigation ditch for reuse.
  7. Pumped-storage plant Powerplant designed to generate electric energy for peakload use by releasing water previously pumped into an elevated storage reservoir, usually during…
  8. Pumping Mechanical transfer of fluids.
  9. Pumping energy Energy required to pump water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir of a pumped-storage plant.
  10. Pumping Head Energy given to a fluid by a pump, usually expressed in feet of fluid (foot pounds per pound).
  11. Pumping plant Facility that lifts water up and over hills.
  12. Pumplift (pumping lift) The vertical distance that a pump will raise waters. Distance water must be lifted in a well from the pumping level to the ground surface.
  13. Purchased power Normally this type is used to represent the purchase cost of energy for firming up the power supply.
  14. Purveyor An agency or person that supplies water.
  15. Pyroclastic Ash mixed with larger igneous rock fragments produced by explosive volcanic eruptions.