The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.
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The Pompton River has a drainage area above Mountain View of 420 square miles.
2
The drainage area above this point is 114 square miles.
3
Mr Deery fell about 800 feet into a drainage area near the town of Wanaka.
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With too little drainage area the earth in a pot gets clogged and very often sour.
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Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.
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The drainage area of the Amazon basin above Obidos is about 1,945,000 sq.
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The drainage area of the Potomac is 11,000 square miles.
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No ruins of circular dwellings occur in the Gila-Salado drainage area, where likewise no circular kivas have been observed.
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The total loss in the drainage area of Pompton River was $350,000.
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The river Amazon has a drainage area of 2,722,000 sq.
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This would conserve 4,026,000,000 cubic feet, equal to 2.69 feet on the drainage area.
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It has a drainage area of 244,000 square miles and a length of 1700 miles.
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The liver transection line is established in order to obtain the graft, including the drainage area of the left medial vein.
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The drainage area tributary to this point is about 140 square miles in extent, the country for the most part being quick-spilling and upland.
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Therefore the figure 11.74 represents a conservative mean for a calculation of total amount of water over the drainage area.
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The capacity of such a reservoir would be 1,768,000,000 cubic feet, equal to about 5.5 inches on the drainage area.