Stream channel definition

Stream channel means a natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed and banks which periodically or continuously contains flowing water. The channel referred to is that which exists at the present time, regardless of where the channel may have been located at any time in the past.

Stream channel means the portion of a watercourse that contains the base flow of the stream.

Stream channel means an area that contains continuously or periodic flowing water that is confined by banks and a streambed.

Examples of Stream channel in a sentence

• Cross sections of the stream used to calculate the stream bed low point and ordinary high water width, consisting of: • Stream channel cross sections shall be taken at proximal locations to the crossing location to determine the average of the lowest points in elevation of the stream bed and the average width at ordinary high water.

• Stream channel reference sites: an illustrated guide to field technique.

• Stream channel restoration activities shall be conducted in the dry or during low flow conditions.

• Stream channel straightening has also contributed extensively to channel erosion and sedimentation downstream.

• Stream channel meandering is most active in low-lying, flood prone valleys where agricultural lands are cultivated up to the top of the stream bank.

More Definitions of Stream channel

Stream channel means a channel between defined banks created by the action of surface water, which is characterized by the lack of terrestrial vegetation or by the presence of a bed, devoid of topsoil, containing waterborne deposits or exposed soil parent material or bedrock; and which is connected hydrologically with other water bodies. “Stream channel” does not include rills or gullies forming because of accelerated erosion in disturbed soils where the natural vegetative cover has been removed by human activity.

Stream channel means a natural or modified watercourse with a definite bed and banks which periodically or continuously contains flowing water.

Stream channel means the area of a natural or manmade drainage course between the tops of banks, where deposited contaminants would erode into the stream or become in contact with floodwaters during floods.

Stream channel means the bed of a stream and the banks of a stream, whether above or below the natural boundary and whether usually containing water or not, including all side channels;

Stream channel means the confining cut of ground surface that contains the base flow of a stream and is identified at a point where the water flow has wrested the vegetation.

Stream channel means a stream channel defined in section 1 of the Water Act;

Stream channel means the portion of a watercourse that contains the base flow of the stream and is usually the point where the normal stream flow has wrested the vegetation. “Stream Hierarchy” means a body of water that flows in a cumulative series to the main body of water