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Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin. It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
Buck Creek is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km) [2] tributary of the Grand River in Kent and Allegan counties in the U.S. state of MichiganIt rises in northern Allegan County in Byron and Gaines townships, and flows through the cities of Kentwood and Wyoming as an urban stream to enter the Grand River in Grandville.
A hierarchical watershed transformation converts the result into a graph display (i.e. the neighbor relationships of the segmented regions are determined) and applies further watershed transformations recursively. See [18] for more details. A theory linking watershed to hierarchical segmentations has been developed in [19]
Plaster Creek is a salmon spawning stream, and salmon have been seen as far upstream as the headwaters at Dutton Shadyside Park. The stream is not considered to be a trout stream, but has been designated as a warm water fishery. One endangered species Epioblasma triquetra (the snuffbox mussel) lives in the Plaster Creek watershed. [4]
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
The Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed, commonly known as the Chain of Lakes, is a 75-mile-long (121 km) waterway consisting of 14 lakes and connecting rivers in the northwestern section of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, which empty into Lake Michigan. The watershed includes 500 square miles (1,300 km 2) in Antrim ...
Elle, 6-year-old boxer mix, arrived at Austin Pets Alive! in December 2021 from a local city shelter as a behavior support case.
The Ecorse River is an 18.8-mile-long (30.3 km) [2] river in southern Michigan.Because of its small size, it is often identified as Ecorse Creek.It flows through the Downriver section of Metro Detroit, and is a tributary of the Detroit River.