spring runoff

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spring
noun
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/sprɪŋ/
the season of the year between winter and summer, lasting from March to June north of the equator, and from September to December south of the equator, when the weather becomes warmer, leaves and plants start to grow again and ...
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The reservoir is typically dry except during thespringrunoff.
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The flats surrounding the river are marshy and subjected to flooding duringspringrunoff.
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Springrunoffand summer thunderstorms create glistening waterfalls and plunge pools.
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They also had temporary campsites in the mountains, low mesas and ponds formed byspringrunoff.
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Reservoirs must be made larger to hold more of the earlyspringrunoff.
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High concentrations of the metal carried byspringrunoffharmed algae, moss, and trout populations.
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In early spring the reservoir water level is lowered to prevent flooding fromspringrunoff.
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Unlike most prior floods, this flood was not due tospringrunoff, but rather significant rainfall.
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During the fall, the lake is lowered 16 ft to hold additional water from winter andspringrunoff.
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The reservoir is also fed by ground water and many small intermittent mountain streams duringspringrunoff.
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Some tried to escape across the river, but it was flowing too fast with thespringrunoff.
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The highest concentrations of herbicides in the river were typically found during latespringrunofffollowing application.
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During the fall the lake elevation is lowered 10 ft to hold water from fall andspringrunoff.
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The southeast supply is more of a seasonalspringrunoffand by summer is sometimes completely dry.
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Newer residential subdivisions in the northwest and southeast have, instead ofspringrunoffstorm sewers, decorative landscaped lagoons.
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During low flow periods, the river's discharge was between and while maximumspringrunoffflows were around.
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Water management using a series of canals and a water control structure is possible when there is sufficientspringrunoff.
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There are numerous rocks in the lake, and thespringrunoffbrings lots of logs floating about.
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The project was designed to combine flood control and impoundment ofspringrunofffor use later in the growing season.
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A warmer climate would increase evaporation and shorten the snow season in the mountains, resulting in earlierspringrunoffand reduced summer streamflow.
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Its flow ranges from 200cuft/s m3/s in late summer of dry years to 7000cuft/s m3/s duringspringrunoff.
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In such places, water equivalent is of great interest to water managers wishing to predictspringrunoffand the water supply of cities downstream.
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The lake is drawn down as winter approaches, to minimize ice damage and to maximize its capacity to store heavyspringrunoff.
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The reservoir was to be kept empty in 1986, but heavyspringrunoffcarried logs and tumbleweeds into the reservoir, clogging the outlet works.
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Duringspringrunoffand the summer monsoon, however, the river can become a raging, muddy torrent ten to one hundred times bigger.
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