Sentence examples for natural channel from inspiring English sources

For twenty years he has fought to remove the concrete and restore a natural channel.

But, Mr. Montgomery said, "in light of the new findings, what constitutes a natural channel form requires re-examination".

Watersheds where blacktop has replaced soil and grass can quickly fill with a raging flow of high water once the natural channel has been reduced to a fraction of its natural width.

There is no natural channel through the spit, but, to prevent rising waters from inundating market-gardening areas on reclaimed sections of the swampy shore, an opening has been dug at Taumutu in the southwest.

Grand Canal, Italian Canale Grande, main waterway of Venice, Italy, following a natural channel that traces a reverse-S course from San Marco Basilica to Santa Chiara Church and divides the city into two parts.

In the course of eight weeks, more than a hundred thousand acre-feet of water was released into the natural channel of the Colorado River below the Morelos Dam, in Los Algodones, rather than diverted into the canal system that carries Mexico's allotment 1.5 million acre-feet a year to the Mexicali Valley.

Lahars can be prevented from spreading out and depositing in critical areas by keeping them channelized in modified natural channels or by engineering new channels.

It is technically a sound because several natural channels connect it to the Atlantic Ocean.

"When you build on stream and river beds, you block off natural channels that divert water," Dossal explains.

It was connected to the Gulf of Thailand and inland cities by canals utilizing the natural channels and the delta.

Extensive commercial navigation of rivers has resulted in much artificial improvement of natural channels, including increasing the depth of the channels to permit passage of larger vessels.