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Keywords: Rainfall, Cwa, Femat, Snowmelt, Waterbody

Related Terms: Backwater, Barrage , Billabong, Channel , Dam, Diversion, Flood, Flooding, Headwater, River, Source, Spillway, Stream, Tailrace, Tributary, Watercourse, Water Course, Weir, Surface Water, Runoff, Storm Water, Losing Stream, Direct Runoff, Lotic, Ephemeral Stream, Intermittent Stream, Perennial Stream, Water Yield, Stormwater, Tributaries, Base Flow, Influent Stream, Run-Off, Surface Runoff, Gaining Stream, Overland Flow, Riffles, Waterway, Baseflow, Channelization, Effluent Stream, Tailwater, Flood Irrigation, Impoundment, Floodway, Receiving Waters, Forebay, Outlet, Stormwater Runoff, Stilling Basin

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Streams that flow only as the direct result of rainfall or snowmelt. They have no permanent flow.

http://www.umpqua-watersheds.org/glossary/gloss_e.html

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Ephemeral waterbodies are streams, ponds, wetlands, etc. that contain water only a fraction of the time. Vernal pools and desert washes are examples. Sometime such waters are called "intermittent". As a general rule, a waterbody is NOT excluded from the CWA definition of "waters of the U.S., simply because it is intermittent.

http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/glossary.htm

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Low places in the landscape that only flow shortly after significant rainfall. Does not have a well defined channel.

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Streams which flow only in direct response to precipitation and whose channel is at all times above the water table.

http://www.streamnet.org/pub-ed/ff/Glossary/glossarystream.html

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Streams that contain running water only sporadically, such as during and following storm events. ( FEMAT, IX-11)

http://reo.gov/general/definitions_e-h.htm

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