Sentence examples for upriver water from inspiring English sources

I was later told spring runoff had been minimal and an upriver water control dam had been partly closed to raise the water level -- which was low for that time of year -- in Upper and Lower Richardson Lakes.

So we headed upriver for clearer water.

But dams upriver to conserve water or generate electricity stopped the downstream flow of silt.

Nearby residents say water quality upriver has visibly worsened.

A gentle hike upriver to the cascades, water crashing over cool boulders and into a still, dark pool.

Concentrated along the coast, this population apparently has no taboos against killing botos, Hrbek says, but they never actually come in contact with them because the botos live in fresh water farther upriver.

Also, total dinocyst concentration increased upstream, which may result from the tidal forcing pushing salinity upriver beneath outflowing river water, and thus signing the estuarine turbidity maximum influence within the Loire River.

Among these measures was a deal with Oregon and California farmers to remove dams upriver and release more water into the Klamath.

"It's a highway," she says of the Hudson, the lower half of which is a tidal estuary, which means that twice a day the water flows upriver.

But they knew that the site posed an immediate problem: it was a mile upriver from the largest water-treatment plant in West Virginia.

The salt wedge is the layer of ocean water that moves upriver with the tide.