Sentence examples for channelization from inspiring English sources

Riverine habitats have been extensively modified by damming and by channelization, the latter being the practice of straightening rivers by forcing them to flow along predetermined channels.

And after the turtle and the channelization I could go off into the biography of the central figure (Carol Ruckdeschel) and I'd have managed what turned out to be eight thousand words of a Shawn-wise beginning before I had to start over and eat that weasel.

They have been for decades, the result of levee construction, the channelization of rivers, dredging, erosion and development.

Sprawling development is spilling over to the north side of the Santa Ana and San Gabriel Mountains, where the last free-flowing river in the Los Angeles area, the Santa Clara, is doomed to channelization by the largest subdivision in the area's history.

The scene on the trip that had followed the turtle was a stream-channelization project — no food for squeamishness there.