freshet"1. The annual spring rise of streams in cold climates as a result of melting snow. 2. A flood resulting from either rain or melting snow. In this sense it is usually applied only to small streams and to floods of minor severity. 3.
Freshet and Coulee "Freshet" and "coulee," old and rarely used words, have a gentler connotation associated with the surplus flows of water across a landscape than the words "flood" or "crest." ...
Freezup jamIn hydrologic terms, ice jam formed as frazil ice accumulates and thickensFrench DrainIn hydrologic terms, an underground passageway for water through the interstices among stones placed loosely in a trenchFreshetthe annual ...
Depletion of snow and ice by melting and evaporation.
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