rigoles d'interception
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| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / farming techniques - wintering pens - drainage | |||||||
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| 4 | runoff channel |
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| 3 +1 | swales |
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| 3 | capture channels |
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| 2 +1 | channel |
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10 hrs confidence: 
capture channels Explanation: or collection channels. The idea is that they stop water (or other liquid?) from running where it shouldn't. |
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14 hrs confidence:
| rigoles d\'interception runoff channel Explanation: Both references are from hydrology texts Reference: http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/512850/runoff Reference: http://www.lmnoeng.com/Hydrology/hydrology.htm# |
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4 days confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1swales Explanation: You still haven't given enough context to be sure of this. However, it looks like it is probably about swales. A swale is a shallow ditch, wider than it is deep, which is used to intercept run-off on a slope and allow water to infiltrate into the ground. If the absorption is insufficient, swales can also be connected to a ditch or pipe land drainage system to channel the water elsewhere. www.btwatershed.org/.../BTWF End of the Year New... "Current BMPs being considered include keeping the cattle in the pasture for longer periods of time during the year (including federally owned land) which would lessen pen time, and onstructing ‘swales’ above and below the cattle pens to move the runoff directly to the pastures which would then absorb the excess nutrients and assist in pasture growth." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 days (2013-08-03 07:56:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- No need to add "interception" or similar, as that is what swales do. They run across the slope on the countour line. |
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9 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| rigole channel Explanation: Don't know about the 'interception' bit, and there may well be a specific term here to cover the whole thing; but I just wanted to suggest that the standard dictionary translation of 'channel' is more likely to apply here for 'rigole'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 days (2013-08-03 07:59:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Right, now we have that vital extra context, there is indeed a specific term, as BDF has kindly provided for you. |
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