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drainage basin: see catchment area catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage ..... Click the link for more information. . drainage basin [′drān·ij ‚bā·sən] (hydrology) An area in which surface runoff collects and from which it is carried by a drainage system, as a river and its tributaries. Also known as catchment area; drainage area; feeding ground; gathering ground; hydrographic basin. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In a cross-section of 100 of the country's urban and suburban forests (where more than 156 million of us live), trees reduce the need for 264 billion cubic feet of stormwater retention infrastructure (sewers, channels, catchment basins, etc. as well as in the further removed catchment basin of the Vaal river. |
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