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Critical Ordinary Watercourses (COWs) are a subdivision of ordinary watercourses, certain anti-flooding responsibility for which was assumed by the Environment Agency. They were created following Defra's Flood and Coastal Defence Funding Review published in February 2003. The transfer to EA of approximately 1,800 watercourses has now been ...
Main rivers (Welsh: prif afonydd [1]) are a statutory type of watercourse in England and Wales, usually larger streams and rivers, but also some smaller watercourses.A main river is designated by being marked as such on a main river map, and can include any structure or appliance for controlling or regulating the flow of water in, into or out of a main river.
A site along the route of a stream or river, used for reference marking or water monitoring. [34] Thalweg The river's longitudinal section, or the line joining the deepest point in the channel at each stage from source to mouth. Watercourse The channel followed by a stream (a flowing body of water) [36] or the stream itself.
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Paddy Gap in Paddy Mountain, elevation 1,400 feet, Brocks Gap in Little North Mountain, elevation 1,020 feet, on Virginia State Route 259 to North Mountain; Dry River Gap on U.S. Route 33 in Virginia to Harrisonburg-Franklin; Buffalo Gap on Virginia State Route 42 to Clifton Forge; Goshen Pass on the Maury River
Articles relating to watercourses, the channels that a flowing body of water follows. [1] In the United Kingdom, some aspects of criminal law, such as the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951, specify that a watercourse includes those rivers which are dry for part of the year
Since 1992, the Main has been connected to the Danube via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the highly regulated Altmühl river. The Main has been canalized with 34 large locks (300 × 12 m or 984 × 39 ft) to allow CEMT class V vessels (110 × 11.45 m or 360.9 × 37.6 ft) to navigate the total length of the river. The 16 locks in the adjacent ...
Back Creek (Jackson River tributary) Back Creek (Potomac River tributary) Back River (Virginia) Bailey Creek (Hopewell, Virginia) Banister River; Bar Branch (Sandy Creek tributary) Bearskin Creek (Banister River tributary) Bennett Creek (Nansemond River tributary) Big Branch (Aarons Creek tributary) Big Mountain Branch (Aarons Creek tributary ...