Bankfull definition

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

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

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.

Examples of Bankfull in a sentence

• Bank-full width is generally considered to be the top width at the stage where a stream begins to overtop its banks and spread into the floodplain.

• Size: Bank-full flows shall be accommodated through maintenance of the existing bank-full channel cross sectional dimensions within a single culvert.

• Size: Bank-full flows shall be accommodated through maintenance of the existing bank-full channel cross sectional dimensions within one culvert.

• Bankfull – The channel at the top-of-bank or point from where water begins to overflow onto a floodplain.

• Bank-full flows (or less) shall be accommodated through maintenance of the existing bank- full channel cross sectional area.

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

• Bankfull channel area pertains to the specific primary or secondary channel in question and is not the aggregate channel area of all primary and secondary channels in multi-channel reaches.

• Bank-full width is generally considered to be the top width at the stage where a streambegins to overtop its banks and spread into the floodplain.

• Bankfull channel area pertains to the specific primary or secondary channel in question, and is not the aggregate channel area of all primary and secondary channels in multi-channel reaches.

• Bankfull discharge rate (1.5 year recurrence interval) of creek or stream if there is a waterway on the site or if the site discharges directly to the waterway.

More Definitions of Bankfull

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).