Sentences with phrase «river main channel»

This reduction represents 69 percent of all sediments flowing out the Andes and 64 percent of the entire Amazon sediment supply and is expected to extend to the Amazon river main channel, impacting the entire central floodplain and delta region.

Not exact matches

These improvements will include four new electric postpanamax container cranes, the relocation of warehouses to facilitate container growth and the construction of new ones, and a deeper 45 - foot depth at the terminal's marginal berths, to match the new 45 - foot depth of the Delaware River's main channel.

Increased water velocity in main river channel.

«All focus has been on the main river channel, with very little investigation of impacts on tributaries and subsequent increased duration of inundation.»

An in - channel action was undertaken in the Lachlan River main stem to provide a specific hydrograph proposed by New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)- Fisheries to provide environmental water to support migration, spawning and recruitment of native fish, specifically golden perch.

The main findings were that there was an increased abundance and species richness of native fish compared to drought years (2005 - 2009) and Commonwealth environmental water contributed to increased base flows in the river channel, increasing hydraulic diversity for native fish.

This involves highly targeted and discrete environmental watering actions such as maintaining low flows to manage water quality by flushing waterholes and directing small volumes of water from the main river channels to providing refuges for plants and animals in wetlands and channel systems.

With work beginning over the main span, the New York Thruway Authority anticipates having to close the main channel of the Hudson River about 70 times over the next 15 months.

Oxbow lakes form as a river meanders and twists across its floodplain; sometimes, a large loop becomes cut off from the main channel, forming an isolated lake.

The southeast flow of the Mississippi River created a new channel connecting the old channel with the main stem of the river.&rRiver created a new channel connecting the old channel with the main stem of the river.&rriver.»

The mouth of the Amazon River has three main channels, with an island the size of Switzerland in the middle.

«Our inability to detect any baiji in the main channel of the river despite this intensive search effort has the sad consequence that the prospect of finding and translocating any surviving dolphins to an ex situ reserve — their only conservation hope — has all but vanished,» says zoologist Samuel Turvey of the Zoological Society of London.

One proposal to fix this is to divert river water out of the main channel so that it flows closer to shore.

It may be two weeks before the main river channel can once again take in water from the tributaries that normally feed into it — instead of flooding them, too, with its own overflow.

By the time New Orleans was founded in 1718, the main channel of the river was the beating heart of a system pumping sediment and nutrients through a vast circulatory network that stretched from present - day Baton Rouge south to Grand Isle, west to Texas and east to Mississippi.

A delta's coastline can be relatively smooth, with most sand depositing from the main river, or it can fan out in the shape of a bird's foot, as the river bifurcates into tributaries and channels, each of which deposits sand in finger - like projections.

The Green Cathedral is a nickname for a kayaking route that is a kind of circular channel off the main river itself (see map below).