watercourse

How To Use watercourse In A Sentence

• These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump.
• On leaving this we dug a hole and let the remainder of the water into it, in the hope of its longer continuance, and halted after a long journey in a valley in which there was a kind of watercourse with plenty of water, our latitude being 28 degrees 21 minutes 39 seconds. Expedition into Central Australia
• 'donga' or watercourse, and into this plunged a rabble of men, white and black, mules, horses, guns, and waggons. The True Story Book
• A watercourse viewed primarily as an effluent carrier will be thought better able to tolerate further pollution.
• River and watercourse levels rocketed which led to homes and businesses being soddened, 15 schools closed and the emergency services at full stretch.
• Improvements were carried out to a watercourse to enable cattle to range across the common.
• These giant worms live in clay soils close to watercourses in the Bass River valley, southeast of Melbourne.
• Effluent discharges are often made inconspicuous by buildings or the frequent disappearance of the watercourse into culverts.
• When water from a nearby active stream flooded into the dry watercourse, the nests and eggs, like those on the flats, were inundated with mud.
• A watercourse viewed primarily as an effluent carrier will be thought better able to tolerate further pollution.