| 1. | It also serves as a check dam for El Choc�n, located upstream.
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| 2. | Check dams could be designed to create small reservoirs, without possibility of silting.
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| 3. | Check dams have been constructed wherever possible to exploit natural springs.
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| 4. | Check dams are used primarily to control water velocity, conserve soil, and improve land.
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| 5. | Further, maintenance is required when removing the check dam altogether.
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| 6. | Check dams are a highly effective practice to reduce flow velocities in channels and waterways.
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| 7. | Check dams still require maintenance and sediment removal practices.
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| 8. | People walk along this check dam and cross over to the other side of the river.
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| 9. | Straw bale check dams, silt screens and debris retention basins slow water flow and trap sediment.
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| 10. | Things like building check dams, masonry dams, people putting in erosion breaks, reseeding with native seeds,
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