Drainageway definition

Drainageway means a natural or artificial channel that flows for no more than seven days after significant rainfall (generally two inches or more after soils have become saturated).

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Drainageway means a natural or artificial channel that flows for no more than seven days

Drainageway means an area of concentrated water flow other than a river, stream ditch or grassed waterway.

Examples of Drainageway in a sentence

• Install box structure as identified in the ▇▇▇▇▇ Creek and Tributaries Major Drainageway Plan dated December 2016.

• The neighborhood drainage pattern associated with the specific drainage entitled Green Mountain Drainageway H has been an area of concern for many decades.

• This data collection activity shall include: • Historical data, Flood Insurance Studies, Drainageway Master Plans, Flood Hazard Area Delineation Studies, Flood Insurance Rate Maps, map revision documents, and other maps, reports, and previous drainage designs in the proximity of the corridor • Identification of all appropriate agencies, including cities, counties, metropolitan and/or special districts, that will have jurisdiction over all or part of the area drainage.

• Specific Project (description): The August 2024 release of the updated FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) has impacted may structures along the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Drainageway (DDD).

• Drainageway, Culverts, and Riprap - The Owner shall visually inspect the drainageways, culverts and riprap semi-annually.

More Definitions of Drainageway

Drainageway means the area within which surface water or groundwater is conveyed from one part of a lot or parcel to another part of the lot or parcel or to adjacent land or to a watercourse.

Drainageway means a constructed or natural channel or depression that may at any time collect and convey water. A drainageway and its drainage reserve function together to manage flow rate, volume, and water quality. A drainageway may be permanently or temporarily inundated.

Drainageway. "Drainage way" means a course or channel along which storm water moves in draining an area.

Drainageway means undeveloped land inundated during a twentyfive- year storm with a peak flow of at least five cubic feet per second and conveyed, at least in part, by identifiable channels that either drain to the Scappoose floodway directly or after flowing through other drainageways, channels, creeks or floodplain.

Drainageway means the concave portion of the landscape in which surface water or rain water runoff gathers intermittently to flow to a lower elevation.

Drainageway means any natural or artificial watercourse, trench, ditch, pipe, swale, channel, or similar depression into which surface water flows.

Drainageway means a natural or artificial watercourse including, but not limited to, streams, rivers, creeks, ditches, channels, canals, conduits, culverts, waterways, gullies, ravines or washes in which water flows in a definite direction or course, either continuously or intermittently, or in which runoff water accumulates permanently or temporarily, including any adjacent area subject to inundation by overflow or floodwater.