Drainage basin. The area of land from which water drains into a river, for example, the Santa Ana River Basin, in which all land area drains into the Santa Ana River. Also called catchment area, watershed, or river basin.
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Drainage basin: See: Watershed.
Dredgeate: The material excavated from lake, river, or channel bottoms during dredging.
Drainage Basin: The area of land that drains water, sediment, and dissolved materials to a common outlet at some point along a stream channel.
drainage basin A part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by a drainage system, which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface water together with all tributary surface streams and bodies of impounded surface water.
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The area of land that drains water, sediment and dissolved materials to a common outlet at some point along a stream channel.
Watershed (Drainage Basin): all land and water that drains runoff to a stream or other surface water body.
master streamThe largest stream within a drainage basin into which all other streams flow. In Horton's Law of Stream Numbers, the master stream has a rank order of 1.
Watersheds are also sometimes referred to as drainage basins or drainage areas. Ridges of higher ground generally form the boundaries between watersheds.
Headwaters: The source and upper part of a large stream or river, including the drainage basin.
Discharge of effluent from waste water treatment plants which receive waste water from households, commercial establishments, and industries in the coastal drainage basin. Combined sewer/separate storm overflows are included in this category.
Municipal Discharge: Discharge of effluent from waste water treatment plants which receive waste water from households, commercial establishments, and industries in the coastal drainage basin.
Watershed: The land area from which surface water and runoff drains into a stream, channel, lake, reservoir, or other body of water; also called a drainage basin.
Watershed: The land area from which surface runoff drains into a stream, channel, lake, reservoir, or other body of water; also called a drainage basin.
 See also: Water, Drainage, Waste, Site, Treatment
  
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