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Drainage basin

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  1. 1
    A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.

    "The efficient evaluation of these plans, which may include the construction of dams, reservoirs, and settling basins, requires information on sediment transport in the Cache Creek drainage basin."

  2. 2
    the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet wordnet

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