Channelized

But they also clog up channelized creeks designed to send flood water into the ocean before it destroys homes and businesses.

Your efforts may get channelized in the wrong direction.

Landscape architects restructured the creek bed, which had become “channelized,” and introduced step pools, sinuous curves and a more gentle slope to the banks.

The primary driver was urbanization, most likely due to the destruction of natural habitat as swamps are drained, rivers channelized, woodlands cleared and land is paved over for housing developments, roadways and shopping malls.

The school has also undertaken to restore its streams, which farmers channelized in the 1920s.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports Fissure 8 continues to be very active with a fast-moving channelized flow entering the ocean at Kapoho Bay.

Meanders have been cut and the river channelized to improve navigation, reducing its length by almost convert from pre-development times.

Ohio built many miles of canal, Indiana had working canals for a few decades, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River system until replaced by a channelized river waterway.