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riparian - located alongside a watercourse, typically a river.
risk assessment - methods used to quantify risks to human health and the environment.

 


Riparian water right: The legal right held by an owner of land contiguous to or bordering on a natural stream or lake, to take water from the source for use on the contiguous land.
Riparian zone: A stream and all the vegetation on its banks.

Riparian. Of or on the banks of a stream, river, or other body of water.
RO/Reverse osmosis. A method of removing salts or other ions from water by forcing water through a semi-permeable membrane.
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Riparian Habitat
Areas adjacent to rivers and streams with a differing density, diversity, and productivity of plant and animal species relative to nearby uplands.
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Riparian Rights: Entitlement of a land owner to certain uses of water on or bordering the property, including the right to prevent diversion or misuse of upstream waters. Generally a matter of state law.

riparian Pertaining to the banks of a stream (e.g., riparian vegetation).
riparian habitat Areas adjacent to rivers and streams with a high density, diversity, and productivity of plant and animal species relative to nearby uplands.

riparian rights : A doctrine of state water law under which a land owner is entitled to use the water on or bordering his property, including the right to prevent diversion or misuse of upstream waters.

Riparian zone
A stream and all the vegetation on its banks out to the high water mark, associated with the bank of a watercourse, the woodlands bordering a river.
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Riparian Zone: The border of a stream or river above its banks; affects the stream and is affected by it.
Sediment: Fine soil or mineral particles.

Soils interpretations for open pasture lands are necessary for selecting the most appropriate species for restoration of riparian forests.

overlying right
The name of a ground-water right in a riparian rights state where the surface owner also owns the underlying water in fee simple.

(4) A sudden loss or gain of land as the result of action of water or a shift in a bed of a river which has been used as a boundary by property owners. If land is lost as a result of avulsion the riparian owner does not lose title to the land that ...

Redds are often constructed in riffle areas.
riparian referring to the streamside, the land bordering streams
riverine something that is of, like, or originating in rivers.
runoff water flowing over the surface of the land.

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