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Article: Stream Health, Assessing
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Stream Health, Assessing
A stream is the central component of a landscape where water drains downslope to the lowest point via a network of drainage channels. The dynamic and complex drainage system may have taken centuries to become naturally established, and its ongoing processes can be interrupted or modified by human intervention. An assessment of stream health therefore must consider the stream's natural setting as well as how human activities have changed it. Also important to an assessment are evaluations of activities that can directly affect water quantity or quality. This suite of information helps managers make appropriate decisions to protect the existing good quality of a ...
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Article: STREAM HEALTH SIGN
The Boston Globe;
July 3, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... six tributaries of the Assabet River that will be monitored this summer by Stream Watch, a project of The Organization for the Assabet River, also called OAR. Streams being monitored empty cleaner, colder water into the river and help to dilute ...
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