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Spanish term
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desagüe de fondo
Spanish to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
Dams
This term "desagüe de fondo" appears many times throughout this document describing the various projects of a Spanish company that does large industrial hydraulics projects including dams and pumping stations. My term suggestions are undersluice and bottom drain, but I am having trouble finding English parallel texts using either term, so I thought I'd ask for your suggestions.
Here are several instances where this term appears:
- Suministro, prefabricación y montaje de nuevo tramo de desagüe de fondo de diámetro 1.800 mm en acero al carbono
- Sustitución de los elementos mecánicos y de accionamiento de los dos aliviaderos, los desagües de fondo y los desagües intermedios.
- Suministro e instalación de las compuertas de la toma de fondo de bombeo principal del embalse
Thank you for your help
Here are several instances where this term appears:
- Suministro, prefabricación y montaje de nuevo tramo de desagüe de fondo de diámetro 1.800 mm en acero al carbono
- Sustitución de los elementos mecánicos y de accionamiento de los dos aliviaderos, los desagües de fondo y los desagües intermedios.
- Suministro e instalación de las compuertas de la toma de fondo de bombeo principal del embalse
Thank you for your help
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | under sluice / undersluice |
Robert Carter
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| 3 | scour outlet/base spillway/bottom outlet |
Vidya Thatte
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| 3 | bottom drainage |
Steven Huddleston
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References
| Findings |
Helena Chavarria
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Proposed translations
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Robert Carter
Mexico
Mexico
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Works in field
Mexico
Translating full-time since 1998
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English
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under sluice / undersluice
Your term appears as "undersluice" in one of my glossaries, but I don't know the origin of the entry, so I searched both terms together and found this:
Under sluice, desagüe o aliviadero de fondo, galería de evacuación
http://www.sapiensman.com/ESDictionary/U/Technical_vocabular...
It also appears here (as "under sluice"):
http://tureng.com/de/spanisch-englisch/de desagüe
http://mes.englishdictionaryonline.org/espanol.asp?palabra=d...
http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/cd27/vocabulario.pdf
http://glosarios.servidor-alicante.com/energias-renovables_e...
Under sluice, desagüe o aliviadero de fondo, galería de evacuación
http://www.sapiensman.com/ESDictionary/U/Technical_vocabular...
It also appears here (as "under sluice"):
http://tureng.com/de/spanisch-englisch/de desagüe
http://mes.englishdictionaryonline.org/espanol.asp?palabra=d...
http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/cd27/vocabulario.pdf
http://glosarios.servidor-alicante.com/energias-renovables_e...
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Comment: "What a wide selection of potential choices! Looks like I need to do more research to figure out which of these fits"
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Vidya Thatte
United States
United States
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United States
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scour outlet/base spillway/bottom outlet
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Steven Huddleston
Mexico
Mexico
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English
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Mexico
Dual-Native English & Spanish Translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US, Canadian) , Spanish (Variants: Colombian, Uruguayan, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Argentine, Chilean, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Mexican, Standard-Spain, US, Ecuadorian , Dominican, Latin American, Peruvian)
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bottom drainage
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Andrew Bramhall
: Sounds like the result of an enema!
2 hrs
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I find it hilariously appropriate, that YOU should interpret “bottom” that way! (Thanks for the morning chuckle.)
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Reference comments
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Helena Chavarria
Spain
Spain
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Spain
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Works in: Spanish to English, Catalan to English
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Findings
From an Australian Word doc.
Under floor drainage system
Where the geotechnical investigations report identifies the need for under floor
drainage, design of the under floor drainage system shall include drain layout
partitioned to assist location of reservoir leakage. Partitioned under floor drains
shall separately discharge to the dechlorination pit. Work as executed drawings
shall record the location of partitions in the under floor drainage and identify the
partition location and the underfloor drainage pipe connected to the respective
partition.
The scour is an outlet pipe or tunnel that runs through the bottom of the dam. It is usually large because of its uses.
The scour can be used in an emergency, for example, when a dam is damaged and poses a threat of imminent collapse. It can be opened to let water out of the reservoir very quickly.
The scour is also opened to flush sediment out of a reservoir when too much has collected behind the dam. The fast flowing water carries the sediment through the scour and downstream.
Valves or gates are used to control the flow of water through the scour.
http://britishdams.org/about_dams/scour.htm
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scour pipe meaning&biw=136...
Page 2
There are two 1066/900mm scour pipes with 900mm valves (1 sluice valve and 1 Larner Johnson) on each pipe discharging onto the floor of the tunnel at the base of the shaft.
http://www.britishdams.org/2008conf/papers/Construction reme...
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Note added at 16 hrs (2016-10-24 19:21:20 GMT)
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If you spot a serious problem at your dam, it’s often a good idea to lower the water level in the reservoir so that pressure on the embankment is reduced, and any leakage/seepage flows reduce or stop. Before doing this you must seek professional advice. The simplest and cheapest way to do this is to open the low level scour (or bottom outlet) valve, if your reservoir has one.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Under floor drainage system
Where the geotechnical investigations report identifies the need for under floor
drainage, design of the under floor drainage system shall include drain layout
partitioned to assist location of reservoir leakage. Partitioned under floor drains
shall separately discharge to the dechlorination pit. Work as executed drawings
shall record the location of partitions in the under floor drainage and identify the
partition location and the underfloor drainage pipe connected to the respective
partition.
The scour is an outlet pipe or tunnel that runs through the bottom of the dam. It is usually large because of its uses.
The scour can be used in an emergency, for example, when a dam is damaged and poses a threat of imminent collapse. It can be opened to let water out of the reservoir very quickly.
The scour is also opened to flush sediment out of a reservoir when too much has collected behind the dam. The fast flowing water carries the sediment through the scour and downstream.
Valves or gates are used to control the flow of water through the scour.
http://britishdams.org/about_dams/scour.htm
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scour pipe meaning&biw=136...
Page 2
There are two 1066/900mm scour pipes with 900mm valves (1 sluice valve and 1 Larner Johnson) on each pipe discharging onto the floor of the tunnel at the base of the shaft.
http://www.britishdams.org/2008conf/papers/Construction reme...
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Note added at 16 hrs (2016-10-24 19:21:20 GMT)
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If you spot a serious problem at your dam, it’s often a good idea to lower the water level in the reservoir so that pressure on the embankment is reduced, and any leakage/seepage flows reduce or stop. Before doing this you must seek professional advice. The simplest and cheapest way to do this is to open the low level scour (or bottom outlet) valve, if your reservoir has one.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
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