Drainage basin definition

Drainage basin means a subdivision of a watershed [Section 373.403(9), F.S.].
Drainage basin means the tributary area or subunit of a watershed through which drainage water is collected, regulated, transported, and discharged to receiving waters.
Drainage basin means a subdivision of a watershed.

Examples of Drainage basin in a sentence

  • Drainage basin: High Park Creek, tributary to Coal Creek, a tributary of the Big Cimarron River, tributary to the Gunnison River.

  • Drainage basin of stream should be delineated from the commencement point of the stream, to the point that it leaves the property.

  • This permit authorizes discharges from the permittee’s regulated small municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) that drain wholly or in part into the Cherry Creek Reservoir Drainage basin and that are located within the permit area.

  • These characteristics include the following: Drainage basin area (A), width (W) and perimeter (P) which measured using a digital planimeter.

  • Drainage basin boundaries for the proposed ATST Project are the Waiakoa and Manawainui Gulch watersheds, two of the 112 Maui Watershed Units totaling 466,437 acres.


More Definitions of Drainage basin

Drainage basin means a geographic and hydrologic subunit of a watershed.
Drainage basin means a geographic and hydrologic subunit of a watershed. Further clarification is located in the drainage reconnaissance study or basin assessment.
Drainage basin or “stormwater basin” means the area defined by topographic boundaries which contributes stormwater to a watershed, drainage system, estuarine waters, or oceanic waters, including all areas artificially added to the basin.
Drainage basin means the geographic and hydrologic tributary area or subunit of a
Drainage basin means all of the water collection area adjacent to the highest water line of a reservoir which may be considered by the Department to be necessary to protect adequately the waters of the reservoir. The area may extend upstream on any watercourse to any point within six hundred (600) feet of the highest water line of the reservoir;
Drainage basin means a part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by and provides surface water runoff into a drainage system which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface water together with all tributary surface streams and bodies of impounded surface water.
Drainage basin means a drainage area that drains to the Green River or White River or other drainage area that drains directly to Puget Sound.