Sentence examples for plain upstream from inspiring English sources

The plan would also flood a plain upstream where more than 100,000 people, many of them ethnic minorities, live as farmers and herdsmen.

The Minidoka Irrigation Project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, created with the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902, involved the diversion of Snake River water into the Snake River Plain upstream of Shoshone Falls in order to irrigate approximately 1100000 acre in the Snake River Plain and store of water in Snake River reservoirs.

Rishikesh, unlike other cities, is the first pilgrimage-cum-tourist destination after the river enters plains, and upstream-located industrial/anthropogenic sources of pollution which may affect the water quality are absent.

The Brahmaputra is navigable throughout the Bengal Plain and Assam upstream to Dibrugarh, 700 miles (1,100 km) from the sea.

In Eq. (2), Q out and Q in are lateral outputs and groundwater flow, respectively, which flows from hills or upstream plains.

The river flow and flooding patterns are heavily affected by orographic storms that occur upstream of the plain when the seasonal tropical cyclonic systems coming from the northern Pacific Ocean or South Chinese Sea hit the mountains bordering the northern and northwestern margins of the Chao Phraya basin (Hungspreug et al. 2000; Komori et al. 2012).

Wagga Wagga is upstream from the Riverina plain in the mid-catchment range of the Murrumbidgee River in an alluvial valley confined by low bedrock hills.

Upstream, in the Vojvodina plains, the Danube attains widths of up to 2 miles (3 km) and depths of 45 feet (14 metres) or more.

The site of the pipeline break, six miles upstream from the high-plains city of Glendive, Montana, is almost entirely capped in ice, complicating efforts to retrieve the oil and slowing the response process.

The terms 'upstream' and 'downstream' are also relative, for example the transition zone is downstream in relation to the headwaters but upstream in relation to the flood plains.

From Figs. 3 and 4 and Table 9, we could get that the average ecosystem service value in the Nenjiang River Basin decreased gradually from the northwestern upstream mountainous area to the southeastern downstream plain.