riprap

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• Moreover, since the 1950s, some sportfishermen have caught lobsters by using scuba gear around the riprap of two lighthouses in the bay.

  Academic text (1990)

• However, in 1989 and 1990, shoreline activities such as bulkheads, riprap, and jetties became the most common project type advertised in public notices.

  Academic text (1992)

• I remember parking the car alongside the road and climbing over a granite riprap structure to get to the shore.

  Blog text (9)

• Rock riprap has altered the ecology of the redwood community to protect individual trees and tourism infrastructure.

  Academic text (1994)

• The rock riprap on the face was in all probability an attempt to stabilize the structure and to ensure that the force of flash floods did not destroy the dam.

  Academic text (1995)

• He picked his way from boulder to boulder down the riprap face of the dam to the cluster of men waiting for him.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The Department of Transportation assisted in the construction by replacing the culvert and adding riprap along the ditches near the culverts.

  Academic text (2007)

• The horses grew tense and jumpy, straining at their bits and bucking, their hooves plinking at the riprap hard enough to strike sparks.

  Fiction book (2002)

• At the lost horizons of New New Guinea, in the forgotten highlands of Papua, the Koranga River tumbles wild as the riprap that fans into her valley from the sheerest mountainsides.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Here, agricultural engineer Kem Kadavy (left) and hydraulic engineer Kerry Robinson measure bed profiles in riprap (loose rock) upstream in a scaled-down model of the structure.

  Academic text (2000)

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