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streambed

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streambed

 or stream channel

Any long, narrow, sloping depression on land that had been shaped by flowing water. Streambeds can range in width from a few feet for a brook to several thousand feet for the largest rivers. The channel may or may not contain flowing water at any given time; some carry water only occasionally. Streambeds may be cut in bedrock or through sand, clay, silt, or other unconsolidated materials.
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This summer, construction workers will dig a new streambed at the eastern end of the millrace to link it with the Middle Fork of the Willamette, move the Clearwater Park boat ramp and complete a number of smaller measures, assistant public works director Len Goodwin said.
MILLRACE AHEAD by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Rather than causing this kind of pollution, dead and dying flora are supposed to remain on the landscape, perhaps tucked along the edge of an arroyo, streambed, or riverbank where they might provide the nutrients necessary for soil building.
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Last year, community activists hiking in the park found pipes and foamlike material buried in a streambed, which turned out to be asbestos-laden insulation and junk from NASA's old liquid-oxygen plant at the field lab.
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