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Recent Examples of riverbed from the Web
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The $42 million-a-year, five-year Stormwater Management Program is designed to repair eroding hillsides and riverbeds, and to clear debris and sediment obstructions from streams, dams and culverts in the region.
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By 1980, 75 percent of the entire run of salmon and steelhead was bred and born not in native riverbeds, but in hatcheries.
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Beach-quality sand taken from the riverbed will be trucked straight to Oceanside’s Buccaneer Beach and to city beaches between Tyson and Wisconsin streets.
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For 60 years, members of the Willow Aces deer camp have come to this same slice of Oneida County cedar swamp, riverbed marsh and wooded ridges.
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Some of the dead were left exposed on hilltops or buried in riverbeds, so their bones were scattered.
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Some of the dead were left exposed on hilltops or buried in riverbeds, so their bones were scattered.
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Do your best to be aware of the geography of the riverbed or lakebed.
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Thus, the work will include placing large rock in the spaces created by the scour in the riverbed at each of the piers, the material states.
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First Known Use of riverbed
1781
RIVERBED Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of riverbed for English Language Learners
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: the ground at the bottom of a river
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