Sentence examples for headwater area from inspiring English sources

In some areas, for example, local residents may tend to refer to small streams by the name of the present occupant of the headwater area.

(2) If a decision involves an area or location within extensive Federal or state holdings or a headwater area, and an FIS, FIRM, FBFM, or FHBM is not available, the Regional Administrator shall seek information from the land administering agency before information and/or assistance is sought from the sources listed in this section.

Cloudbursts were usually common during the monsoon period between late June and early September and were restricted to headwater area (Beas River) of the closed tributary valleys.

The species Gymnodiptychus pachycheilus, belonging to the specialized schizothoracine fishes, distributes only in the headwater area in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau with elevations of 2,750 3,750 m (He et al. 2004) and is the most dominant group of the ichthyofauna of the Yellow River (Wu Y and Wu C 1991).

Highly erosive areas were identified along ridgelines in several headwater areas, with the northeast area of Songriwon having a particularly high erosion potential.

Based on three random samples taken within the 2016 vegetation period, 23 headwater areas in the Saarland were investigated to test for pesticides and their metabolites.

We suggest that application of modest SMZ regulations to ephemeral streams would likely reduce or alleviate salamander declines in these important headwater areas.

Temporal variations in groundwater chemistry can serve to distinguish the contributions of these two sources, and such variation is especially pronounced in headwater areas of the Ganges floodplain immediately adjacent to the Himalayan foothills (e.g. the Terai of Nepal).

We propose one approach that focuses habitat conservation in headwater areas – where present management allows extensive logging – on sensitive target species, such as tailed frogs and torrent salamanders that often occur patchily.

The 1st to 2nd order stream buffers have 12 28% greater agricultural land area percentage and 0.45 1 m shallower soil depth than the 3rd to 5th order stream buffers, suggesting that the headwater areas in the study watershed are important in preventing nonpoint source pollution due to the more intensive agricultural land use and potential erosion in headwater catchments.

The role of vegetation cover in reducing soil erosion in the headwater areas and transition zone, and thereby reducing sediment load in flood plain areas, is widely discussed.