"downriver of" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe a location or direction in relation to a river. For example: - The town is located downriver of the bridge. - The campground is downriver of the bend in the river. - The city is situated downriver of the dam. - We set up our campsite downriver of the rapids. This phrase can be used in various contexts, such as describing the location of a town, campsite, or city along a river. It can also be used to give directions, such as "Continue downriver for 10 miles and then turn left."
Downriver of the Danjiangkou dam, the water level of the Han River, a major tributary of the Yangtze, would drop, making it more prone to fish-killing algae.
The Lower Ninth Ward, the section that lies downriver of the infamous Industrial Canal, is full of signs like this one.
Ever since the storm, the country has heard a lot about the Lower Ninth Ward, a small, overwhelmingly African-American neighborhoodownriverer of the city's center.
By The New Yorker August 12, 2008 Ever since the storm, the country has heard a lot about the Lower Ninth Ward, a small, overwhelmingly African-American neighborhood downriver of the city's center.
In 1876 77 he accompanied the British explorer Henry (later Sir Henry Morton Stanleyy partway down the Congo River, and later he sent expeditions as far as the Aruwimi confluence, 110 miles (180 km) downriver of Stanleyville (now Kisangani, Congo [Kinshasa]).
People in the Upper Midwest have been wrestling with the "hodgepodge" of levees, as one Missouri geologist describes the situation, for decades, even as officials in the 1920s designed a more standardized system of protection south of here, along the Mississippi downriver of Cairo, Ill., and all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
One stray bullet pierced the vessel's supply pipe between the boiler and engine, cutting off its power, and the boat drifted downriver, out of gun range, and lodged on the Southern (Western) shore.
There were Dutch, Germans, Australian, and British on board, travelling downriver on one of the many cycle-cruise operations now working the waterways of Europe.
An exhaustive environmental analysis reveals the project will destroy plant and animal habitats, and the dam will threaten the lives and livelihoods of people downriver, some of whom depend on ecotourism dollars.
On May 31 , 1889 heavy rains caused a poorly maintained dam to burst in southwestern Pennsylvania, sending a wall of water 14 miles downriver to the town of Johnstown.
The downriver side of New Orleans has always evoked strong emotions.
