Bankfull definition

Bankfull means the width of the stream that corresponds to the depth where water fills a main channel to the point of overflowing.

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Bankfull means the channel is filled to the top of one or both of its banks.

Bankfull means the channel flow rate that exists when the water is at the elevation of the channel bank above which water begins to spill out onto the floodplain. The term describes the condition of the channel relative to its banks (e.g. overbank, in-bank, bankfull, low banks, high bank).

Examples of Bankfull in a sentence

• Bankfull elevation is the level at which water begins to leave the channel and move into the floodplain and is reached at a discharge that generally has a recurrence interval of 1 to 2 years in the annual flood series.

• Bankfull will be estimated based on known procedures and field indicators.

• Photos for each site will include: • Longitudinal profile o Stream upstream of the reach o Approximately every 50’ – 100’ and at locations of special interest o Stream downstream of the reach • Bankfull indicators may be absent within impaired channel reaches.

• Bankfull capacity The maximum flow that a given watercourse can convey in a specified reach without the water level rising above the level of either bank.

• Bankfull area was estimated by scaling the ▇▇▇▇▇ (1991) data by the average ratio of water surface to bankfull area for the 1945 and 1990/1991 data in this study (Table 2-4).

• Effective and Bankfull Discharges in the Yampa River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming.

• An indication of the flows at which flooding occurs is 5 Bankfull Capacities are based on original channel capacity numbers.

More Definitions of Bankfull

Bankfull means an established stream stage/elevation at a given location along a stream which is intended to represent the maximum safe water level that will not overflow the stream banks or cause any significant damage within the stream reach.

Bankfull means an established elevation at a given location along a creek or river which is intended to represent the maximum safe water level that will not overflow the banks or cause any significant damage within the waterway reach.