The phrase "area waterway" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific waterway located within a certain area or region, often in discussions about geography, environmental studies, or urban planning.
Example: "The city has implemented new regulations to protect the area waterway from pollution and development."
Alternatives: "local waterway" or "regional waterway".
In March, the Illinois D.N.R. announced that six weeks of searching had found no Asian carp throughout the entire Chicago Area Waterway System.
The integrated modelling simulates the two-way linkage between the sewer network and the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS).
Any environmental activists who use the spring floods of the Mississippi River as a cause for extreme action in the Chicago area waterway system are grossly exaggerating their impact.
The second boat ride was a rollout for new tools that would be employed in the Chicago River and its 70-odd miles of canals (the Chicago Area Waterway System, or CAWS) to stem the advance of the Asian carp, which are using the waterway's connection to the Mississippi River system to threaten the Great Lakes.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) submitted to Congress the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) Report, the majority of which concentrates on management of the Chicago Area Waterway to prevent the spread of invasive species.
Therefore we use structured expert judgment (SEJ) to evaluate the uncertainty around the effectiveness of alternative strategies to prevent invasions through the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) that connects the Mississippi River and Laurentian Great Lakes watersheds.
In New York City alone, 1.6 billion gallons spilled into area waterways.
But during heavy rainstorms, the treatment plants reach capacity and shut off access, diverting the waste to 689 overflow pipes that discharge directly into area waterways.
As a result, much of the increasingly urgent work of dredging New York area waterways has come to a halt, threatening the viability of the area's future as a destination for super-size container ships.
Likewise, the garbage slicks are frequently attributed to heavy rains that cause sewage treatment plants to cut off access and divert combined sewer and storm water waste directly into area waterways.
While scientists debate whether Asian carp could spawn in the Great Lakes and imperil the lakes' $7 billion fishing industries, environmental groups and politicians from six states have called for re-separating Chicago area waterways from the Mississippi River.
