Sentence examples for headwater to from inspiring English sources

To solve the riddle of the harbor's name, Ms. Mendelman provides a map showing the distance from its headwater to the heart of East Hampton village: three miles.

The "standard" sea lamprey barrier uses a fixed-crest height and overhanging lip to maintain a vertical drop of about 30 cm from headwater to tailwater over the period of lamprey migration.

Toward this end, here we develop a riverscape transect approach by adapting landscape gradient analysis with pattern metrics so as to quantify the longitudinal variations in the spatial pattern of the river-land complex from headwater to mouth.

Several techniques were chosen to study changes in the hydrological response of a 1.53 km2 forest headwater to the exceptional climatic situation in summer 2005, when an intense early summer drought was followed by a wet summer.

The Warta drops 1,224 feet (373 m) from its headwaters to its mouth.

From its headwaters to the Cumberland (or Great) Falls, in Whitley county, Ky.

The mountains are the headwaters to the country's three best-known rivers, the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and the Snowy rivers.

Decades ago, a doctor from Manaus had negotiated a lease on this entire 160-mile tributary from headwaters to its confluence with the Branco.

Since 1950, dams have been constructed on its headwaters to produce hydroelectricity and to form reservoirs to supply water to the Keihin Industrial Zone.

In the section from the headwaters to the Vitim River, the Lena flows in a deep-cut valley, the rocky and steep slopes of which rise up to 1,000 feet (300 metres) above the river.

Compared with those in nearby states, most of Michigan's rivers are short; distances from the headwaters to the mouths of the major rivers (which usually empty into one of the Great Lakes) are usually less than 150 miles (240 km).