Drainage basin definition

Drainage basin means a subdivision of a watershed [Section 373.403(9), F.S.].
Drainage basin means the tributary area or subunit of a watershed through which drainage water is collected, regulated, transported, and discharged to receiving waters.
Drainage basin means a geographic and hydrologic subunit of a watershed.

Examples of Drainage basin in a sentence

  • Drainage basin characteristics such as drainage area, slope, percent impervious cover, land use, etc.

  • Drainage basin divides and subdivides to all outlet locations where stormwater drainage leaves the property.

  • Drainage basin studies are completed by the City (or their designee) and accepted by the City to produce maps that supplement the FIRMs. These drainage basin study maps use the same FEMA SFHA criteria but for contributing drainage areas of less than 1 square mile (640 acres) and at least 100 acres.

  • Drainage basin of the river, in which polluted stretches have been identified and in respect of which the pollution abatement project is to be prepared.

  • In Ghana, the first university counselling centre was established in 1976, at the foremost public institution, the University of Ghana (Essuman, 1999 & 2015; Hassane, 2011).


More Definitions of Drainage basin

Drainage basin means a geographic and hydrologic subunit of a watershed. Further clarification is located in the drainage reconnaissance study or basin assessment.
Drainage basin means a subdivision of a watershed.
Drainage basin means a part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by and provides surface water runoff into a drainage system which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface water together with all tributary surface streams and bodies of impounded surface water.
Drainage basin or “stormwater basin” means the area defined by topographic boundaries which contributes stormwater to a watershed, drainage system, estuarine waters, or oceanic waters, including all areas artificially added to the basin.
Drainage basin means the geographic and hydrologic tributary area or subunit of a
Drainage basin means all of the water collection area adjacent to the highest water line of a reservoir which may be considered by the Department to be necessary to protect adequately the waters of the reservoir. The area may extend upstream on any watercourse to any point within six hundred (600) feet of the highest water line of the reservoir;
Drainage basin means a drainage area that drains to the Green River or White River or other drainage area that drains directly to Puget Sound.