Sentence examples for kilometers downstream from inspiring English sources

In the plains of Assam, barely 60 kilometers downstream, the Siang will join two other tributaries to make up the broad, muddy east-west flow of the Brahmaputra.

The site is a few kilometers downstream from what is considered the "birthplace" of the Irrawaddy — the confluence of two smaller rivers — a place that has mystical value for the Kachin ethnic group that populates the hills of northern Myanmar.

According to local police officials, 40 bodies were recovered on Friday from the River Ganges in Haridwar town, more than 200 kilometers downstream from the submerged holy town of Kedarnath.

As I learned from the T'Sou-ke T'Sou-ke First Nations one-tenth as much to conserve energy as it costs to produce it; the human patterns of consumption asd production up that river are driving what I'mucheing here hundreds of kilometors downstream.

In the State of Washington, there are five active volcanoes, each having the potential to generate catastrophic lahars that could strike communities tens of kilometers downstream.

And more than 575 kilometers downstream, Hoover Dam, completed in 1936, heads up a reservoir called Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada.

This causes a serious hazard for the involved river section and for the surrounding areas for kilometers, both upstream and downstream.

Nearly 100 geomorphologists and ecologists stationed themselves along a 385-kilometer stretch of river downstream of the dam, through the Glen, Marble, and Grand canyons, gathering data on water flow and quality, sediment transport, and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

An empirical relationship to predict peak discharge from catastrophic failure of natural dams [19], Qp = 0.3 [VD]0.49 where Qp = peak discharge (m3 s−1); V = lake volume (m3); D = lake depth (m), suggests a peak discharge > 300,000 m3 s−1 if the dam failed catastrophically with a resultant flood wave impacting the channel downstream for several hundred kilometers.

The ultimate demise of the paleolake system is attributed to a kilometer-scale decline of the base level of drainages downstream of the paleolake.

In a river basin, hydrological events that occur in the upper part may have a direct influence downstream (Nepal [2012]), from a few to many hundreds of kilometers away.