catchment area

Example Sentences

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With the river water comes numerous particles from the catchment areas through which the rivers pass, and these particles can cloud significant portions of the Arctic Ocean.

From Science Daily

"I've heard one mother couldn't get her child in the local school here even though she lived in the catchment area and her child was two," she said.

From BBC

The Wye last year had its status downgraded to "unfavourable" with some blaming the rapid expansion of chicken farming in the catchment area.

From BBC

The beavers had earlier been trapped in the River Tay's catchment area before being taken to Five Sisters Zoo, near West Calder, West Lothian, for health checks.

From BBC

The council report acknowledged that if the plans went ahead, some children from within the catchment area of an oversubscribed school could be refused a place.

From BBC