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A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1] Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation ( aquatic plant ), depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity.
The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
[49]: 57–58 A wash, desert wash, or arroyo is normally a dry streambed in the deserts of the American Southwest, which flows after sufficient rainfall. In Italy, an intermittent stream is termed a torrent (Italian: torrente). In full flood the stream may or may not be "torrential" in the dramatic sense of the word, but there will be one or ...
The meandering aisle resembles a dry streambed surrounded by rock outcroppings covered with succulents and cactus. Camellias and jasmines were in full bloom. Behind the three main halls is the ...
The stream typically has a dry streambed. Large amounts of debris have been found in the stream and the streambed, including landscape waste , floral waste, tree debris, and trash. Large deposits of sediment are also present near Jefferson Avenue.
The dry bed of the River Ebble, pictured in August A winterbourne is a stream or river that is dry through the summer months, a special case of an intermittent stream. Winterbourne is a British term derived from the Old English winterburna ("winter stream").
The 1996 Atlanta Games produced the third such venue by modifying the then-dry streambed of the Upper Ocoee River. As the only in-river Olympic venue, it had the greatest water volume, the highest drop, and the steepest slope.