catchment area
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| catchment area | |
| —n | |
| 1. | catchment basin, drainage area, Also called: drainage basin the area of land bounded by watersheds draining into a river, basin, or reservoir |
| 2. | the area from which people are allocated to a particular school, hospital, etc |
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catchment area
area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams. For example, the total area drained by the Mississippi River constitutes its drainage basin, whereas that part of the Mississippi River drained by the Ohio River is the Ohio's drainage basin. The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins.
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Establishes requirements for rainwater and storm water retention, detention, and catchment area pond inspection and safety.
The popular systems have three major components: the catchment area, the collection device, and the conveyance system.
The catchment area, the observation field, become saturated.
Because it was unable to supply big new customers, companies have tended to set up new factories outside its catchment area.
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