One evening, crossing a small creek, he pulled the car off the road. 一天傍晚,他驶过一条小溪后把车停在了路边。 文章 Rivers? Streams? Creeks? These are all names for water flowing on the Earth's surface. Whatever you call them and no matter how large they are, they are invaluable for...
River, (ultimately from Latin ripa, “bank”), any natural stream of water that flows in a channel with defined banks . Modern usage includes rivers that are multichanneled, intermittent, or ephemeral in flow and channels that are practically bankless. T
However, this has led to lower water levels of the river, which has caused the river’s water to decline. Companies and factories along the river will need to focus on green development. If their activities do harm to the waterways, they will be moved away, the law says.【1】What does...
winding deep canyons has been cut. Each entering river and each lateral creek has cut another canyon, and thus the upper and middle parts of the Colorado basin aretraversedby a labyrinth of deep gorges. The longest of these unbroken trunk canyons through which the Colorado flows is the spectac...
Evacuations were ordered in nearby Watsonville where creek water spilled over and filled roadways with several feet of water, threatening dozens of homes with flooding. At one home, chickens inside a backyard coop perched on a bar near the roof to avoid the water. ...
Rocky River/Tick Creek Watersheds Situation AssessmentPerrin, CBeggs, P
4.4. Sheet of very poorly sorted gravel at the mouth of Alkali Creek A sheet of weakly stratified, very poorly sorted gravel underlies a bench at about 650 m asl on the northwest side of Alkali Creek near its confluence with Fraser River (Fig. 13A and B). The sheet is up to 15 ...
This effort is called "CREST," which stands for Cleaner Rivers through Effective Stakeholder TMDLs.Since the initiation of CREST in 2004, the stakeholder group has collaborated on the development of three TMDLs: Ballona Creek Toxics, Ballona Creek Bacteria, and LA River Bacteria. For the ...
Managing receiving-water quality, ecosystem health and ecosystem service delivery is challenging in regions where extreme rainfall and runoff events occur episodically, confounding and often intensifying land-degradation impacts. We synthesize the approaches used in river, reservoir and coastal water managemen...
deep kettle depressions in Brooklyn and Queens, and the glacial moraine that remains in parts of themetropolitan areaprovide silent testimony to the enormous power of the ice. Glacial retreat also carved out the waterways around the city. TheHudsonandEastrivers, Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and Arthur Ki...