Civil Engineering: Surveying Water Terms

Senin, 28 Maret 2011

Surveying Water Terms

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Bank - Edge of a stream.
Bed and banks - For property lines that cross a body of water, this term is used to explicitly refer to the bottom of the water.
Bottom - Land along a river.
Branch - Small stream.
Brook - Small stream.
Creek - Small stream.
Drain - Small dry stream or gully.
Drean - See drain.
Ford - Shallow part of a stream or river where one could cross.
Fork - Meeting point of two streams. "In the fork of" means between two branches.
Gut - A narrow passage between hills. A stream in such a passage. A drain.
Head - The source of a stream.
Headwaters - The smallest streams that combine to make a larger stream.
Kill - (Dutch) Creek.
Lower - Toward the mouth of a stream. Further down along its course. Opposite of upper.
Meander - "with the meanders of the stream" means the survey line follows the twists and turns of the stream.
Mouth - The place where a stream enters another, larger stream.
Narrows - Narrow part of a stream.
River - Large stream.
Run - Small stream.
Shoal - Shallows.
Spring - A pool or other source of water that feeds a stream.
Swamp - In the southeastern U.S., a stream, particularly one that has has swampy parts. A marsh.
Upper - Toward the head of a stream. Further up along its course. Opposite of lower.
Vly - (Dutch) Swampy lowland.
Waters ("watters") of - In the drainage of.