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London water supply infrastructure
London water supply infrastructure, also called London water infrastructure, is the system of rivers, reservoirs, tunnels, and pipes that supplies drinking water to Greater London, operated mainly by Thames Water.
Long-Term Pavement Performance program
The Long-Term Pavement Performance program is a North American research program studying pavement performance, begun in 1987 under SHRP and run by the Federal Highway Administration.
Longyangxia Dam (龙羊峡大坝)
Longyangxia Dam (龙羊峡大坝) is a large dam and 1,280 MW hydropower station on the upper Yellow River in Qinghai, China, completed in 1992 with multiyear regulation capacity.
Loon Lake (California)
Loon Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada of El Dorado County, California, about 35 miles northeast of Placerville, impounded by a dam SMUD completed in 1963.
Lorentz (company)
LORENTZ (Bernt Lorentz GmbH & Co. KG) is a German manufacturer of solar-powered water pumping systems, founded in Hamburg in 1993 and selling in about 140 countries.
Loring A. Wyllie Jr.
Loring A. Wyllie Jr. (born 1938) is an American structural engineer who spent his career at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco, specializing in seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings.
Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct, also called the Owens Valley aqueduct, carries Sierra water 233 miles to Los Angeles; built 1907 to 1913, it supplies about 40 percent of the city's water.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the municipal utility of Los Angeles, serving about 4 million residents and the nation's largest municipal power system.
Los Pelambres desalination plant
A reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant at Punta Chungo port near Los Vilos, Chile, serving the Los Pelambres copper mine with 400 liters per second of industrial water.
Lötschberg Base Tunnel
The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (Lötschberg-Basistunnel) is a 34.6-kilometer Swiss railway tunnel opened in 2007, running beneath the Bernese Alps between Frutigen and Raron as the first base tunnel of the New Rail Link through the Alps.
Louis Carl Lundstrom
Louis Carl Lundstrom was an American engineer at General Motors who pioneered full-scale vehicle crash testing of highway hardware and vehicle crashworthiness, including guardrails and the energy-absorbing steering column.
Louisville sewer explosions
The Louisville sewer explosions were a series of underground blasts that tore through Old Louisville, Kentucky, on February 13, 1981, after hexane from a Ralston-Purina soybean plant leaked into sewers.
Louisville Water Tower
The Louisville Water Tower, also known as the Louisville Water Company Pumping Station, is a historic 185-foot water tower in Louisville, Kentucky, operating since 1860.
Loukkos irrigation scheme
The Loukkos irrigation scheme is a large-scale irrigated agriculture perimeter in northwest Morocco, supplied by the Oued El Makhazine dam and managed by the regional office ORMVAL.
Lounge bridges and wind-and-rain bridges of China
Lounge bridges (lángqiáo, "corridor bridge") are Chinese timber bridges carrying roofed galleries, including woven-arch bridges in Fujian and Zhejiang and Dong and Miao wind-and-rain bridges.
Low-impact development
Low-impact development (LID) is a stormwater management approach that manages rainwater close to where it falls using practices like rain gardens, permeable pavement, and green roofs.
Lower Granite Dam
Lower Granite Dam is a dam on the lower Snake River in Washington state, completed in 1975 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, generating 810 megawatts.
Ludendorff Bridge
The Ludendorff Bridge, or Remagen Bridge, was a steel railway bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, captured intact by American forces on 7 March 1945.
Lyon–Turin rail link
The Lyon–Turin rail link is a 270-kilometer railway line between Lyon, France, and Turin, Italy, centered on the 57.5-kilometer Mont Cenis base tunnel under construction beneath the Alps.
Lyonnaise des Eaux
Lyonnaise des Eaux was a French water distribution and treatment company, one of France's two dominant private water firms, that merged with Dumez in 1990 and became part of Suez.
M. Visvesvaraya
M. Visvesvaraya, also known as Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, was an Indian civil engineer and Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, known for the Krishna Raja Sagara dam.
Machine de Marly
The Machine de Marly, also known as the Marly Machine, was a giant hydraulic pumping installation on the Seine built in 1681–1684 to feed the fountains of Versailles.
Mackinac Bridge
The Mackinac Bridge, known as the Mighty Mac, is a suspension bridge opened in 1957 that connects Michigan's two peninsulas across the Straits of Mackinac.
Macroscopic traffic flow model
A macroscopic traffic flow model describes road traffic as a continuum using aggregated variables like flow, density, and mean speed, treating traffic as a compressible fluid.
Madden Dam
Madden Dam is a concrete dam on the Chagres River in Panama, built by the United States from 1931 to 1935 to supply water and power for the Panama Canal.
Maeslantkering
The Maeslantkering, or Maeslant barrier, is an automated storm surge barrier near Hoek van Holland, Netherlands, completed in 1997 as part of the Delta Works.
Magazine of Concrete Research
Magazine of Concrete Research is a peer-reviewed civil engineering journal covering concrete materials, mix design, testing, durability, and structural analysis, established in London in 1949 and published by ICE Publishing.
Magdeburg Water Bridge
The Magdeburg Water Bridge (Kanalbrücke Magdeburg) is a 918-meter navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the Elbe, the world's longest canal bridge.
Mahatma Gandhi Setu
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, also called Gandhi Setu or Ganga Setu, is a 5.575 km road bridge across the Ganga connecting Patna and Hajipur in Bihar, India.
Maiko Marine Promenade
舞子海上プロムナード (Maiko Marine Promenade): paid circular walkway inside the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge girder, Kobe, Hyogo; 47 m above sea, 317 m long, glass floor sections, observation lounge and cafe.