borehole headworks

Portuguese translation: trabalhos de perfuração

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English term or phrase:borehole headworks
Portuguese translation:trabalhos de perfuração
Entered by: Gabriela Frazao

14:23 May 12, 2002
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
English term or phrase: borehole headworks
"assessment of risk of contamination of groundwater, including borehold headworks surveys and catchment audits."
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trabalhos de perfuração
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Gabriela Frazao
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Local time: 12:33
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4 +5trabalhos de perfuração
Gabriela Frazao
4 +1furo,e estruturas de tomada de água
Maria Luisa Duarte


  

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furo,e estruturas de tomada de água


Explanation:
a hole with a drill,auger or other tools for exploring strata in search of minerals,for water supply,for blasting purposes,for proving the position of old workings,faults,and for releasing accumulations of gas or water.
Reference 5104/89

a collective term for all works(weirs or diversion dams,head regulators,upstream and downstream river training works and their appurtenant structures)required at intakes of main or principal canals to divert and control river flows and to regulate water supplies into the main canal or canals

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Maria Luisa Duarte
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agree  veronnica: nice
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
trabalhos de perfuração


Explanation:
Julgo que sei isto.

Gabriela Frazao
Portugal
Local time: 12:33
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in pair: 846
Grading comment
thank you very much.

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agree  António Ribeiro: absolutamente correcto.
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