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Downriver
Downriver meaning
Closer to the mouth of a river
Synonyms of Downriver
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A village clerk, she spent much of her life in the same little house in Afanansiivka, a quiet, pretty hamlet along a Dnipro tributary downriver from the dam.
But that ended when the federal government sued us over our actions taken to protect not only downriver subsistence fishermen but upriver as well,”said Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor.
In 1941, nobody who lived in the floodplains downriver were warned about the dam breaking and chaos broke loose as the water levels quickly rose.
The Karuk and the Yurok downriver are the largest tribes in California.
By the time a team of rescuers saw her, she had been swept more than a mile downriver.
Downriver in Tefé, a branch of the Solimoes has dried up completely, as seen by Reuters reporters who flew over the river on Sunday.
Two years ago, New York Waterway stirred up public opposition in neighboring Hoboken to its plan to move its boat-maintenance facility about a mile downriver.
Additional diversions at the downriver end — this time for urban as well as agricultural use — greatly reduce the amount of water that actually makes it through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the San Francisco Bay and then the Pacific.
After a downriver trip that takes days, the grain is poured into ships’ holds and dispatched across the world, largely to China.
Capt. Harry Guleke was one of the first to figure out how to get the boats downriver.
Downriver from Tulsa, evacuations have been ordered in Arkansas.
There’s no better example of that than “Downriver” from in which the narrator is offering herself to a love interest using a river as the metaphor.
The boat drifted uncontrollably downriver.
The discovery was made in low water near the south bank of the Suir at Killowen (Portlaw) near the Fiddown Bridge, five miles downriver of Carrick by the crew of Rescue 117 (the Search and Rescue helicopter) shortly after 6pm on Sunday.
Upriver are the majestic Mavecure hills, and downriver the Orinoco.
Comparison of individual PAH compounds with different thermal stabilities shows that the source of PAH pollution in the Clyde changes downriver.
He escaped (from Verkhnekamchatsk) and went downriver to Nizhnekamchatsk, but the local commander refused to step aside and give him command.
However, the placement of the slab at Caput Bovis suggests that the canal extended to this point or that there was a second canal downriver of the Kasajna-Ducis Pratum one.
In the local parlance downtown means "downriver from Canal Street", while uptown means "upriver from Canal Street".
Jellison, p. 160 In October 1775, the Gaspée went downriver, and her prisoners were transferred to the Adamant, which then sailed for England.