1) Civil engineering term
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Headworks is a civil engineering term for any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal. Historically the phrase `headworks` derives from the traditional approach of diverting water at the start of an irriga.....
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A flow control structure on an irrigation canal.
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