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Tributary

Tributary meaning

A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water. | A vein which drains into another vein. | A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.

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A Network Rail spokesperson said it was sorry to drivers disrupted during the closure, but the bridge of the railway and river Frome tributary needed to be shut for safety reasons.

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.

By 1973, BC Hydro completed the Duncan, Arrow and Mica dams on the Columbia, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished Libby Dam on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary, in Montana.

Incredibly, the Thames even used to be a tributary of the River Rhine.

Lincoln Creek is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, but Aspen’s domestic water supply is not affected; the city’s drinking water comes primarily from Castle Creek.

Livestock waste also the Southwest’s last free and untamed stretch of a major river—the Gila, a tributary of the Colorado River.

Natural England last assessed the Wye and its tributary the River Lugg in 2010 and on seven units of assessment found one to be favourable, with the rest unfavourable-recovering.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, has been under construction since 2011 on the Blue Nile, the main tributary into the Nile, in northwestern Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.

The report cites a 2021 study by Colorado Parks and Wildlife in which a trout was captured in a clean tributary only inches upstream from its confluence with Lincoln Creek and then exposed to the water collected in Lincoln only a few inches downstream.

The Yamuna, an important tributary of the Ganga, is considered holy in Hinduism.

They hold mining leases on about 4,700 acres within the Bitterroot National Forest near Sheep Creek, a tributary to the West Fork Bitterroot River.

University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher Christy Remucal found that Lake Michigan tributary water bodies and their sediment can be sources of PFAS, which can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods.

Each village only had a few hundred people and was situated along the Andreafsky River, a tributary of the great Yukon.

Finally, Tributary Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in Ambarella by 23.8% in the first quarter.

In recent years, a significant and unprecedented decline in water flow has been clear in both the Euphrates and the Tigris, and tributary rivers and lakes have dried up in several governorates.

The settlers diverted water from the Bear River — the Great Salt Lake’s largest tributary — for water-intensive agriculture and livestock.

The Winooski River, the largest tributary to Lake Champlain, inundated fields at DeGraaf Dairy in Richmond in July 2023 and July 2024, according to farmer Nicholas DeGraaf.

Tributary Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in 3M in the 1st quarter valued at about $25,000.

Tributary Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in Alphabet during the first quarter worth $30,000.

Tributary Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Ambarella by 20.2% in the fourth quarter.