Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
briglia selettiva
English translation:
selective check dam
Italian term
briglia selettiva
"Non è stato quindi possibile quantificare l'esatto volume di materiale mobilizzato, anche se la briglia selettiva sul Rio XXX presente all'altezza di XXX Alpi Graie, ha trattenuto materiale stimato intorno ai XXXX m3"
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Chiara
| 4 | selective check dam |
Kim Metzger
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| 4 | selective sluicegate |
Maria Sarcina PhD
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| 4 -1 | self-flushing dam |
swisstell
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Nov 15, 2007 21:16: swisstell changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (2): Ivana UK, Maria Sarcina PhD
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Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
selective check dam
http://www.protezionecivile.it/cms/attach/editor/dpcinforma/...
Sedimentation in mountain streams is one of the major causes of devastating floods in the valleys of the Italian Alps. In recent years, numerous "selective" or "filtering" open check dams have been built in the Province of Trento. These new dams have been based on the concept of functional classes, with works customised to individual rivers and streams and their specific modalities of sediment transport. Given the dynamic nature of rivers and streams, basic designs that can be adapted to the features of a particular stream have been developed. The new open deck dams described in this paper variously combine two or more performance classes, with the final structure depending on the purpose the check dam must serve.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iabse/sei/1997/0000000...
United Kingdom
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Native in: Italian
Works in: Italian to English, English to Italian
selective sluicegate
self-flushing dam
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Kim Metzger
: I found no evidence of "self-flushing dam" at IATE and debris flow is colata detritica.
3 days 22 hrs
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