shutter dam English

Meaning shutter dam meaning

What does shutter dam mean?

shutter dam noun

— A form of movable dam having large gates opened and closed by a turbine.

Examples shutter dam examples

How do I use shutter dam in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The dam burst and water flooded the valley.

This dam supplies us with water and electricity.

The dam burst owing to the heavy rain.

The construction of the dam created an artificial lake that destroyed a whole ecosystem.

The dam blocking the river is very wide.

Thousands of people could be killed if the dam fails.

Is there much water in the dam?

There used to be a village here before the dam was made.

An oil leak was contained by a beaver dam in Alberta.

The river rose above the level of the dam.

It took seventeen years to build this huge dam.

A beaver needs to fell hundreds of trees to dam a river.

This is a beaver dam.