Sentence examples for tidal reach from inspiring English sources
It says the tract is ecologically moribund, the victim of a 1930's mosquito-control campaign that employed berms and canals to sever the land from the tidal reach of the Hackensack River.
New York Harbor is the beginning of a fjord, or arm of the sea, that surrounds Manhattan and has a tidal reach in the Hudson River that extends up to Troy, N.Y.
The first alteration came in 894AD, when King Alfred ordered a dam be built near the mouth to limit the tidal reach, thereby stranding the invading Danes who had sailed up the Lee to build a fortified camp at Ware.
One biologist working with the group declared a new "golden age" of eagles, osprey and other waterfowl thriving within the tidal reach of the Chesapeake Bay, which includes the Potomac up to Washington.
The problem with exploiting tidal power has, rather, been finding places to do it efficiently: bays or estuaries with a suitable tidal reach and a topography that permits a barrage to be constructed.
Visual assessment and automated classifications of the imagery were compared with field survey data for an estuarine reach comprising saline waters, mudflats, a tidal reach of a tributary river and an urban/industrialised shoreline.
The tidal reaches of the River Trent, Nottinghamshire, could also be affected today.
London escaped mostly unharmed, in part because of a lucky coincidence: favourable tides mean that water levels in the Thames's tidal reaches are low.
A magical video projection passage sees the tidal reaches of the Ganges brought to shimmering, sun-drenched life, as Khan climbs a tree to raid a bees' nest for the honey.
Proposals for harnessing and generating electricity from the Severn – which has one of the highest tidal reaches in the world – have been brought forward since the 1920s, but none has yet been put into practice.
A good guide will point out the hollows in the tidal reaches that were dug out in the 19th century when Medway mud was loaded into sailing barges by labourers called "muddies", taken to kilns and mixed with chalk to provide the London building boom with cement.
