Sentences with phrase «major tributaries»

The research team conducted their study using samples taken from seven small streams that flow into the James and York rivers, major tributaries of Chesapeake Bay.

Assuming that all the dams that are planned or under construction are completed, this number would almost double to 93 %, largely due to multiple dams being planned for major tributaries in the Amazon Basin.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.

«The proposed Pilgrim Pipeline project affects important resources of regional and statewide concern including the Hudson River and major tributaries such as the Rondout, Esopus and Catskill Creeks and Wallkill River,» they wrote.

Fifty - six hydroelectric dams span the Columbia, Snake, and other major tributaries in the basin.

Big Dann Creek joins the South Fork Eel on the same bank, just upstream of Cedar Creek, while the next major tributary downstream of Cedar is Rock Creek.

After having crossed the Los Angeles - Orange County border three times, Coyote Creek receives its first major tributary, 9.8 - mile (15.8 km) Brea Creek, on the right bank.

«The proposed pipeline threatens important resources of statewide concern, including the Hudson River and major tributaries, such as the Rondout, Esopus and Catskill creeks and Wallkill River,» the mayor wrote.

They will probably be filled from the Yarmouk river, a major tributary of the Jordan shared by Syria, Jordan and Israel.

When Claude Gascon of Conservation International in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues examined data from frog and small mammal communities along the Jurua River, a major tributary of the Amazon River, they found that it did not fit with predictions based on riverbank affiliation.

According to the report, the Yukon River and one of its major tributaries have accumulated increasing levels of calcium, magnesium and sulfates over the last three decades due to thawing permafrost.

From there, the plume headed downstream into the San Juan River (a major tributary of the Colorado River), headed for New Mexico and, eventually, Lake Powell on the Utah - Arizona border.

The creek cuts its way through a deep valley, arriving at Dinwoody Lake on the Wind River Indian Reservation, where it finally dumps into the Wind River, a major tributary of the Yellowstone River.

Low - oxygen regions also form each summer in the lower portions of the bay's major tributaries and episodically in many smaller tributaries.

Scientists look at this period in Turkana basin's history for a possible glimpse of how the landscape may be transformed if Ethiopia proceeds with the planned construction of a massive dam on the Omo River, the major tributary to Lake Turkana.

According to the Heartworm Society, the highest infection rates occur in dogs (not maintained on heartworm preventive) within 150 miles of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries.

The highest infection rates are found within 150 miles of the coast from Texas to New Jersey, and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries.

Heartworms have been diagnosed in animals in every state of the nation, but are most commonly seen within 150 miles of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, from the Gulf of Mexico to New Jersey and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries, according to the American Heartworm Society.

In the U.S., Heartworm disease is most common along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the Gulf of Mexico to New Jersey and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries, but it has been reported in dogs in all 50 states.

In the U.S., Heartworm disease is most common along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the Gulf of Mexico to New Jersey and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries.

The highest infection rates for dogs have been observed within 150 miles of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and along the Mississippi River and its major tributaries.

Travel to a jungle lodge located on the Napo River, one of the Amazon's two major tributaries.

Almost all of the park land is water shed for the Smith River and Mill Creek, a major tributary.

It is not a linear trail, but a network of launching and landing sites that can take you to iconic and incredible destinations on the San Francisco Bay and its major tributaries — the San Joaquin River, the Napa River, and the Petaluma River.

This boutique hotel sits along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon River's major tributaries.

The Brazilian government is currently constructing what would be the world's third - largest hydroelectric project on one of the Amazon's major tributaries, the Xingu River.