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Watercourses definition

Watercourses means rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial, vernal or intermittent, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border the state; and
Watercourses means rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs, and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial, vernal or intermittent, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the Town or any portion thereof not regulated pursuant to sections 22a-28 through 22a-35, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes. Intermittent watercourses shall be delineated by a defined permanent channel and bank and the occurrence of two or more of the following characteristics: (a) evidence of scour or deposits of recent alluvium or detritus, (b) the presence of standing or flowing water for a duration longer than a particular storm incident, and (c) the presence of hydrophytic vegetation.
Watercourses means any lake, river, stream, ocean, or other body of water.

Examples of Watercourses in a sentence

  • The contracting states are Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia and Uzbekistan (Current Status of UN Watercourses Convention, 2009; Figure 1).

  • On 21 May 1997, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non- Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997 UN Convention) by 103 votes in favor, 3 against (China, Turkey and Burundi), with 27 abstentions (UN, 1997).

  • Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.

  • Amendments to Articles 25 and 26 of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.

  • Treaties Concerning the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Africa.


More Definitions of Watercourses

Watercourses means watercourses as defined in section 22a-38 of the General Statutes.
Watercourses means rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs, and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial, vernal or intermittent, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the Town or any portion thereof not regulated pursuant to Section 22a-28 through 22a-35, inclusive. Intermittent watercourses shall be delineated by a defined permanent channel and bank and the occurrence of two or more of the following characteristics:
Watercourses means rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes, swamps, bogs, and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial, vernal or intermittent, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the Town or any portion thereof not regulated pursuant to Sections 22a-28 through 22a-35, inclusive, of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Watercourses means "watercourses" as defined in section 22a-38 of the Connecticut General Statutes; and
Watercourses means a natural or artificial channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously of intermittently.
Watercourses means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
Watercourses means ponds and wetlands.