The creeks were full, and when it overflowed, it pushed giant 20- and 30-pound catfish into these creeks.
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This house is in a gated community of about 212 homes built between two creeks; one of the creeks has a private dock, the other a boat landing.
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The area near the creeks was the most treacherous, Mr. Eliason said, as creeks swelled with the sudden torrents of water mixed with ash from the fires, rocks and dirt.
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It's muck, stirred up from sewers and bayous and creeks.
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Legend says that he roams the creeks of rural Arkansas.
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Culverts were torn up and creeks and wetlands were restored.
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More stress on levees, dams, rivers, creeks and streams is expected.
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Additional stress on levees, dams, rivers, creeks and streams is expected.
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Rivers and creeks overflowed into each other within hours, flooding neighborhoods.
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There were creeks in Malibu—nothing that looked like a river.
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The amnesty program is far from universally loved in the creeks.
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Among them were seven creeks, another mountain and a small island.
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Below us stretched terraced cornfields, rocky creeks, and rampant wild marijuana.
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Water poured out of creeks and rivers, prompting scores of rescue calls.
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"We would roam the woods and the creeks by ourselves," she said.
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Rain and irrigation carried DDT from fields into creeks, rivers, deltas, bays.
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Inland flooding, particularly along creeks and rivers, may also become life-threatening.
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The valley is wine country, full of creeks, wineries and fields of wildflowers.
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"If a storm stalls inland, it will overflow creeks and rivers," he added.
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Usually dry ditches transformed into swiftly flowing creeks, and the rivers grew higher.
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They also warned residents to stay out of the swollen rivers and creeks.
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They're doing things like making sure drains and creeks are cleaned and open.
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Farmers are doing things like ensuring drains and creeks are cleaned and open.
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Swollen rivers and creeks in east Texas won't crest until later this week.
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People have been drinking water from creeks contaminated by dead animals, she said.
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The property includes 80 square miles of watersheds, creeks, diverse terrains, and wildlife.
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Farther east, in Washington Parish, rising rivers and creeks led to widespread flooding.
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When there's heavy rain, Leonard said, the creeks flood, sending the fish everywhere.
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Katmai's bears do have their choice of salmon-clogged creeks, rivers, and streams.
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Over time, escaped slaves and a group of Creeks built a community here.
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"You cannot wait until the creeks rise to get this coverage," she said.
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Damage can be seen after a collapsed distillery warehouse poisoned creeks for nearby fish.
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Authorities called on area residents to search their own backyards, including creeks and ditches.
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She relights it, and the door to her wardrobe slowly creeks open behind her.
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At least 3,500 Creeks and 5,000 Cherokee died over the course of the journey.
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The tiny crabs, their shells still soft, are caught in local creeks by fishermen.
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The pipeline would cross nearly 300 creeks and streams and necessitate cutting 700,000 trees.
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After the first collapse, spilled bourbon contaminated two nearby creeks, killing almost 1,000 fish.
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It's a beautiful, mountainous place—full of creeks and waterfalls and lots of vegetation.
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And beaches near creeks, rivers or storm drains absorb the brunt of urban runoff.
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State regulators found that Sunco discharged drilling fluid into creeks, not natural gas liquids.
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Environmentalists say vanishing creeks like those in Palmeirante are threatening the nation's water supply.
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Approach shots landed on greens only to be blown backward into ponds and creeks.
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Creeks, streams, urban areas and farmland are certainly at risk for flooding late this weekend.
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This caused many rivers, creeks and streams to overflow their banks and even triggered landslides.
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The air smells green, and secrets lurk in the creeks, rills and tree-shrouded coves.
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"Sky, mountains, creeks, trees, grass, wildflowers – I just can't seem to get enough," she says.
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Like small creeks, they drain rainwater, and much of the city's refuse, out to sea.
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"People are drinking out of creeks here in San Juan," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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It filters water from creeks and rivers, making it perfect for hiking, camping, and travel.
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On the day before the storm, firefighters were driving around Montecito, clearing obstacles from creeks.
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I'd spend hours wandering its forests, creeks, and swamps, learning my way in the woods.
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Their hooves trample the banks of creeks, killing vegetation that stops silt from building up.
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Rivers and creeks, used as frozen highways for sleds, are not reliably freezing as expected.
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Crews blocked off storm drains to prevent the foam from spilling into nearby creeks, Matlow said.
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"Springs, creeks, forest, pastures ... just an ideal protective location within an ideal climatic region," he said.
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Baru sang the names of the red cliffs, the mangrove swamps, the creeks and stringybark trees.
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Many coastal and inland communities remained under water from storm surge or overrun rivers and creeks.
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"What impacts our business more is water depth," he said, since the creeks are getting shallower.
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There are four marinas, as many public beaches and an assortment of ponds, bays and creeks.
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To gain more mobility options, Genoa has for years built entire boulevards over creeks and rivers.
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Also, there are creeks that run through the area year-round, and he has family nearby.
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In the neighboring town of Trenton, downtown streets were turned to creeks full of brown water.
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They are a hunter-gatherer community and also have very small boats for fishing in local creeks.
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The bayous, the creeks, the rain that nurture both my garden and my art, devastated my space.
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It actually annoys me how often Island Creeks are the best-tasting oyster in any mixed platter.
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Her son-in-law had carried her to one of Bangladeshi's inland creeks, near Shah Porir Dip.
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Like many people, I grew up playing in creeks and streams and swimming my way through summer.
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There are roughly 12 miles of water in the form of man-made waterfalls, creeks, and lakes.
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The nearby creeks are also home to brown and rainbow trout, which can be fished year-round.
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"I grew up in Missouri so we were always climbing through creeks and what not," she said.
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State regulators also found that thousands of gallons of drilling fluid had been improperly discharged into creeks.
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Correction: This story previously said that state regulators found that Sunco discharged natural gas liquids into creeks.
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Many of the bayous or creeks were returning to normal, officials said at a nighttime news conference.
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I love you Burma and hope you're in heaven jumping into creeks, chasing sticks and fish with Dad.
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The emergency spillway appears more like a muddy mess of small creeks that spill menacingly from the reservoir.
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The most controversial cases revolve around creeks, ponds, and puddles that only exist for part of the year.
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Subdued children play, eerily quiet, against a backdrop of toxic lawns, oily creeks, tainted vegetation, and sere trees.
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Many coastal and inland communities remained under water, either from coastal storm surge or overrun rivers and creeks.
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CNN meteorologist Chad Myers warned that saturated ground and swollen creeks, bayous and rivers cannot absorb the downpour.
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"Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams," the Lake Charles office said.
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Now he fears Eller, 35, may be trapped in the thick forest full of creeks, brush and ravines.
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Though motorcycles, jeeps and pickups are popular on the plains, horses are better for fording rivers and creeks.
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Pine-crested buttes punctuate the skyline, open prairie stretches for miles, and creeks wind through pastures and yards.
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Some areas have been inundated with up to 20 inches of rain, causing creeks and bayous to swell.
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A deluge falling on saturated soil will flood the creeks and leave water pooling on low-lying roads.
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The barred galaxius, an endangered fish found only in the headwaters of a few creeks northeast of Melbourne.
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The downpour led to flooding from 2150 rivers and creeks in Central and North Florida, forcing highways to close.
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DC is flanked by rivers, laced with creeks, and threaded with plumbing that's prone to backing up under stress.
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When Brian is not digging up the waterways to remove sediment, he's usually digging in creeks, looking for gold.
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"The ground is saturated, and creeks and rivers are high, so adding anything additional could always cause some problems."
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The town, which is set on three ridges separated by marshland and brackish creeks, occupies roughly a square mile.
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More than 3,000 latrines have been installed but many overflow and sit above pools and creeks where refugees bathe.
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We're getting hit pretty hard, but Houston is doing worse because all the creeks and bayous are flooding over.
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She raises longhorn cattle at her Twin Creeks Ranch, and sells the beef to chefs and at farmers' markets.
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In the wild, these trees prefer rich, well-drained soils, and are often found near river bottomlands or creeks.
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Numerous creeks and basins, like the Paerdegat, penetrate upland from the bay, putting surrounding areas at risk of flooding.
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That water moves to the lowest lying areas in the region, like rivers and creeks, and then flows down hill.
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Nowadays it is a neighborhood like any other but at the time it was rural, with mountains, creeks and farms.
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The rainfall has filled up already-swollen creeks and rivers, and knocked power out in areas such as Monterey County.
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" A local statement put out by the office warns that "Small streams, creeks, canals, and ditches may become dangerous rivers.
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In areas lacking sufficient waste management systems, trash often ends up in creeks and rivers that empty into the ocean.
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After work is over at dawn, the workers dump the waste crude, adding to the massive pollution in the creeks.
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The water came up so quickly in some places that creeks rose up to 20 inches in a few hours.
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Rain can fall miles away and sweep down creeks so fast and strong it's hard to outrun or outswim them.
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Offshoots of the main trail contain steep drops, and the treacherous terrain features creeks, brush and ravines, complicating search efforts.
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There are already culverts and creeks that go under roadbeds that lizards could take advantage of, but they often don't.
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In Webster County, Nebraska, the prairie rolls in waves, following the contours of a tableland gouged by rivers and creeks.
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UGBORODO, Nigeria — Militants are roaming oil-soaked creeks in the south, blowing up pipelines and decimating the nation's oil production.
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The "combined sewer overflows" are discharged directly into nearby rivers, bays and creeks instead of going to wastewater treatment plants.
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Humboldt County's Clam Beach, which is fed by two creeks, was named California's most polluted beach by Heal the Bay.
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In the Houston area, the rainfall flooded some roadways Wednesday, stranding drivers, and caused several creeks and bayous to rise.
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But this year's winter has been especially harsh in southern Peru with snow falls continually covering grasslands and freezing creeks.
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There were reports of flooding of streets, small streams, creeks and even rivers as well as rock slides throughout the state.
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Those benefits could limit the appeal among former militants of returning to the Delta's networks of creeks to carry out attacks.
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There are record levels of flooding and cresting along rivers and creeks that will affect homes, roads and driveways, he said.
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It would be nice if more boutique options bested them, but no; like Hellmann's mayo, Island Creeks are kind of perfect.
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He told a news conference that 13 creeks and water channels designed for drainage had overflowed, causing floods that blocked roads.
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They live in Pawlet, on a 64-acre property that used to be a meditation retreat and has ponds and creeks.
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Large sea-going vessels can only depart from a handful of creeks or Nile branches – all watched by coast guard towers.
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Increasing urbanization, with people moving into housing developments built in formerly remote regions with creeks and forests, contributes to rising numbers.
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Fairs and festivals, and the annual stocking of creeks and rivers for fishing, would also be vulnerable to cutbacks, he said.
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The department warned that such water runs into retention ponds and creeks, where it could expose wildlife to the dangerous stimulant.
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Such snow is essential to feeding creeks and streams, which in turn keeps landscapes moist and green through much of summer.
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As the sea rises, hundreds of tidal creeks and marshes that thread through the region are bringing saltwater to people's doorsteps.
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The Creeks, Ronald Perelman's mammoth estate in East Hampton, N.Y., where an annual benefit for the Apollo Theater was taking place.
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Salmon in the area typically come from the Skokomish River and inhabit the creeks in order to spawn, or have babies.
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Cover image: Harvey Weinstein attends Apollo in the Hamptons at The Creeks on August 12, 2017 in East Hampton, New York.
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Reelfoot Lake is less a lake than a system of bayous, creeks and swampland connected by areas of shallow open water.
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This technique has failed in the past and is even more risky for the streams and creeks upstream from Bristol Bay.
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Canine units worked their way along the Montecito and San Ysidro Creeks, where a large number of houses were swept away.
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On Thursday, the outer bands of the storm lashed the Big Island, swelling creeks and rivers and triggering road-blocking landslides.
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The mountains — and the wilderness that blankets them — are the stuff of American lore: blue forests, trout-filled creeks, pristine backcountry.
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Ultimately, the contaminated rivers and creeks flow into the massive water supply system relied on by the most populous U.S. state.
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He would spend hours alone outdoors, exploring the creeks and hunting for Pacific giant salamanders, garter snakes and wolf spider lairs.
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Flood watches are out for portions of coastal New England, including Boston, where minor flooding could occur around rivers and creeks.
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The National Weather Service's office in Flagstaff warned residents to avoid the state's famous slot canyons and any campsite near creeks.
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Scientists long thought the electric eels found in swamps, streams, creeks and rivers across South America were all the same species.
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A steamboat carrying 611 Creeks up the Mississippi collided with another boat and was cut in two, killing 311 Indian passengers.
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No attempt is made to control leachate, which swills out into the surrounding creeks and marshes and on into the Arabian Sea.
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He warned that saturated ground and swollen creeks, bayous and rivers could not absorb it, as the incident involving the soldiers demonstrated.
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She had survived by eating berries and mushrooms and drinking from creeks and puddles, authorities said, according to local TV station WKRG.
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Volunteers set out in kayaks and walked the banks of the creeks and the nearby woods in search of the missing teens.
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He forced the defeated Creeks to forfeit huge tracts of their land to white slave-holding settlers, foreshadowing his policies as president.
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Crude spilled into two neighboring creeks and on surrounding vegetation, Ecopetrol said in a statement, but the spill is now under control.
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There's also a swimming pool, a skeet-shooting range, a pond (that you can fish in) and two creeks to canoe in.
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As the storm progresses and the heavy rain continues to fall, rivers and creeks further inland will start to overflow as well.
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Forestar is developing Hidden Creeks Estates, a gated community of 188 luxury homes, right next to Porter Ranch, on property abutting Sempra's.
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Mingo County's breathtaking valleys and hollers — narrow creeks bordered by high hills — are lined with spacious homes, swimming pools and gleaming vehicles.
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The property, which totals about 1,249 acres, includes a custom log lodge, three stocked ponds, two creeks, and bunches of longleaf pines.
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Red cliffs rear up against the sky, split by canyons and creeks that spill into the wide blue expanse of the lake.
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Jagged mountains, granite walls and avalanche chutes plunge to creeks and rivers where, in good years, more than one million salmon spawn.
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Particularly unique excursions include Dolphin Discovery Tours sailing through local hidden creeks and spotting bottlenose dolphins, and tubing excursions just for teens.
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But to me, it's a hometown full of lakes, rivers and creeks, the world's best pizza* and a world-class jazz festival.
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Numerous creeks and streams were out of their banks and caused widespread flooding, the National Weather Service office in Des Moines said.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The mayor of Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered capital spoke on Friday of thirsty children drinking from creeks.
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The couple enjoyed a sunset cruise along the creeks that wind through the vast grasslands, stopping to try their hand at fishing.
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At one point, nearly 1.5 million people had no access to drinking water, forcing some to drink unsafe water from creeks and rivers.
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About a decade ago, another band of militants, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, prowled the creeks, blowing up pipelines.
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He's also looking for an installation space to create a card catalogue of dreams indexed by topic: birds, bones, calendars, seashells, staircases, creeks.
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I was fine around lakes, rivers, creeks, but once the unimaginable depth and mysteries of the ocean came into play, I'd start shaking.
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Ponds and creeks that had been harmless after Hurricane Matthew in 2016 were filling up subdivisions and rendering some small communities as islands.
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At community events, senior women recalled details of their childhood homes, where they'd catch eels out of creeks that ran through their neighborhoods.
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Even as violent confrontations erupted in fields and along creeks and about 600 people were arrested, crews kept digging and burying the pipeline.
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She said five minor injuries were reported during water rescues as nearby creeks and streams overflowed their banks and several rock slides closed roads.
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Consider the beavers in the creeks—how they carelessly float about, cracking mussels upon their upturned bellies and revelling in the sun and the . . .
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That means more than a million people are resorting to obtaining water any way they can, including from contaminated creeks, sewers, and Superfund sites.
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"The Brazos River is being pounded, and all of that water is coming down from the tributaries and creeks into the river," she said.
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Last March, Robbie McGee, the Poarch Creeks' lobbyist, told Global Gaming Business Magazine that the tribe has a "definitely more amenable relationship" with Strange.
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The low elevations and the quiet, bird-filled wetlands and tidal creeks produce a sense of living with the water, rather than beside it.
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Pale green shoots are showing on the willow trees that rise above Brooklyn's old creeks, and birds are starting to join us at dawn.
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The city's natural resources — the Ganges River, lakes and creeks that could contain heavy rain, soft soil that could hold groundwater — are being destroyed.
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Heavy rains were slamming much of the Northeast for a fourth straight day Tuesday, swelling rivers and creeks, flooding roads and forcing emergency declarations.
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I'll be spooning a bowl of Guyanese cow foot soup and seeing how well a new oyster knife performs on a dozen Island Creeks.
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Weave through the canyon using the footbridges, where you'll pass by different waterfalls and creeks as the canyon begins to close in on you.
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There is also a 4 percent stake in the roughly $1 billion Spring Creeks Tower in Brooklyn, which Mr. Trump inherited from his father.
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"Road conditions are starting to improve in some parts of our state but rising creeks, streams and rivers continue to make travel unsafe," Cooper said.
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There are higher standards that local communities could adopt to protect themselves, he said, including specific limits against building too close to bayous or creeks.
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Then, even more slowly, as the path descends in spiraling bends, the car splashes through sudden creeks of snow melt that run through narrow gorges.
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You can find the teeth of megalodons in parts of North America, especially at the bottom of creeks in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.
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Even on the John Muir Trail, large stretches are in disrepair and had turned into creeks of snowmelt when my daughter and I hiked them.
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Around the point where the Muckalee and Kinchafoonee Creeks flow into the river proper, the boat's engine sputtered and died, and they found themselves stranded.
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It involves scraping off the tops of mountains, removing the coal and then dumping the waste in valleys and the creeks that pass through them.
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The lot is 256.9 acres, and features rock bluffs, over 30 caves, creeks and natural woods, as well as wildlife like bears, turkey and deer.
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Rivers and creeks run through the American South as bountifully as veins and arteries run through the human body, and are just as necessary for life.
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At one point, almost 1.5 million had no access to drinking water, forcing some residents to drink unsafe water like creeks and rivers in the island.
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Oil firms are well aware that their pipelines and storage tanks are vulnerable in the creeks, where attackers can easily disappear despite a stronger military presence.
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Dr. Raul Hernandez, an internist in San Juan, told CNN that people were drinking water from whatever sources they could find, such as rivers and creeks.
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Their house sat just above one of our occasional creeks—parallel to it, actually, with a long, spacious front room looking down on the streambed below.
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She and her team would stick their hands in creeks and feel for water frogs, since the creatures can't easily be spotted where they live — underwater.
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"This is a pipeline that would cross a number of major rivers and a lot of creeks and streams in Virginia and North Carolina," Thompson explained.
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They warn that heavy rain will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets, and underpasses, and to avoid driving on flooded roads.
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The field master controlled the riders as they galloped after the hounds over rugged terrain, across pastures, along wooded paths and over creeks and stone walls.
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No sooner were Pine Ridge's highways mostly cleared of snow than temperatures shot up, and the rush of newly melted water overflowed from creeks and rivers.
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They climb into the alpine to harvest berries and, starting in midsummer, they congregate along the valley's creeks and rivers to fish when the salmon run.
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In some areas, scientists have mounted unprecedented efforts to create captive populations of endangered fish species threatened by the flood of ash into creeks and rivers.
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The view of soft, wooded peaks interspersed with creeks and lakes extended as far as we could see, evoking the northern territories of Canada or Alaska.
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In the end, the worst flooding had come not from the ocean's battering but from the stealthy creeping outward of these creeks and channels and wetlands.
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Numerous roads were closed, and authorities warned of the risk of landslides, tornadoes and flash floods, with dams and bridges in peril as rivers and creeks swelled.
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The river's "basin" is all of the land surface that is dissected and drained by a river as well as all the streams and creeks feeding it.
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The army launched a wide-ranging hunt across the Delta this week, sending gunboats into mosquito-infested creeks and searching villages in the middle of the night.
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For the plastic that did reach a recycling factory, there were reports of poor working conditions and contaminated water being discharged into local creeks from such facilities.
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Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode announced in October that all shanty towns around the city's creeks and waterways were to be demolished, identifying them as hideouts for criminals.
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Island Creeks have supplanted Wellfleets as the definitive New England oyster, always clean, deep-cupped, and full of salt, always making that ale taste that much better.
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"We could see flooding in areas that haven't flooded in a long time and there will be additional stress on levees, rivers, creeks & streams," the service said.
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Ponds and creeks also make good hiding places: Capybaras are semiaquatic and can remain submerged for long periods with only their nostrils poking above the water's surface.
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Once in the open, the beast and its rider gingerly step over fallen trees and navigate creeks of melted snow, seemingly oblivious to a late winter chill.
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Old drain pipes empty into the tidal creeks, and at high tide the water can back up through these pipes, bubbling into the streets seemingly from nowhere.
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After days of ruinously heavy storms in southern Louisiana, rain-swollen rivers and creeks continued wreaking damage across the state, inundating neighborhoods and submerging roads and highways.
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Amid a yard of yachts and speedboats, Jim Dragseth sat at a desk, surrounded by photos and maps of the St. Lucie River and its nearby creeks.
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Searchers have risked their lives to find a treasure they are certain is real, braving rushing creeks in Yellowstone National Park only to be rescued by rangers.
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When those pipes are overloaded with rainwater, the combined overflow is then discharged directly into nearby rivers, bays and creeks instead of going to wastewater treatment plants.
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Because of its low-lying coastal perch, this city of about 530,000 is especially vulnerable to cyclones, violent storms, ocean surges, and flooding from rivers and creeks.
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Creeks that during much of the year would only have a trickle of water burst their banks and "went where they wanted to go," Mr. Eliason said.
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He said that people living in the track of the storm had been told to stay indoors and to avoid swimming or crossing swollen rivers and creeks.
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The heavy rains caused rivers and creeks to rise, and prevented the low-lying cities drainage system from clearing water fast enough to spare homes from flooding.
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The property is festooned with lakes, streams, waterfalls and creeks created to form what many say is one of the largest manmade water parks in the country.
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The name wasn't just odd, he told VICE News — it became clear that all the other nearby creeks were named for people who lived and worked on them.
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During the warmer months, the snow begins to melt, filtering its way down the mountains into creeks, streams and rivers and eventually into the Golden State's water system.
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The streets of Cucuta were already full of poor Venezuelans, some sleeping in parks and washing their clothes in creeks because they had no money to travel farther.
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The rain is expected to persist for days, and trillions of gallons of storm runoff will continue to cause problems as they consolidate in creeks, bayous and riverways.
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Buhari has vowed to stamp out the Avengers, but the military has found it difficult in the past to hunt down militants in the Delta's maze of creeks.
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Some Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians had followed that route on the "Trail of Tears"; it passes through forests and pastures and beside timber yards, lakes and creeks.
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Growing up, he and his brother Terry would play in the neighboring woods and rivers, exploring, shooting arrows, and splashing in creeks that ran with water containing PCBs.
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Photo essays of sprawling lots of abandoned bikes in China, or bikes hanging from trees or sunk in creeks in Washington, DC or Dallas, are popular online clickbait.
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I would take them on these trails out in Vancouver, and we would go for hours through this path, hopping among rocks, through creeks, and down the road.
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In December, as daylight hours dwindled and plummeting temperatures froze the creeks and rivers that powered factory wheels, workers faced unemployment; begging, drunkenness, and rioting were not uncommon.
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Winning the loyalty of local people is vital, as those who feel left out often allow militants to hide in the network of creeks around their Delta villages.
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John James Audubon lived here in a rickety frame house, surrounded by birds and the creatures of the marshes, creeks, swamps and forests that once covered northern Manhattan.
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The spills have had a catastrophic impact on many communities where people have no other water supply than the creeks and rely on farming and fishing for survival.
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The victims included an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old boy, both carried off by fast-moving torrents where there would usually be shallow creeks.
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The victims included an 663-year-old boy and a 4-year-old boy, both carried off by fast-moving torrents where there would usually be shallow creeks.
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You'll cross creeks in your vehicle, stopping in the middle to listen to the water flow, and then head back up the hill on the wash-boarded road.
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The woods were as lovely as they ever are after a rain: the creeks full of rushing water, the gray bark of the fallen trees slick with moss.
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Trees and power lines fell as heavy rains sent creeks and rivers out of their banks late Thursday and early Friday, leaving many stranded residents waiting to be rescued.
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Several lawsuits have been filed against the U.S. government over the water rule, which broadened protections beyond "navigable waters" to include "adjacent waters" such as streams, creeks and wetlands.
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The National Weather Service says up to 2129 inches (240 centimeters) of rain caused flooding to creeks and rivers in the city of Helen, Georgia, around 210 a.m. Wednesday.
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The slow hum of the river and creeks are a complete change of pace from Don Jr.'s life in the city that never sleeps, roughly 120 miles away.
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The region saw record snowfall this year and as that snow melt, it's causing Yosemite's creeks and Merced River to swell, creating spectacular scenes of waterfalls throughout the park.
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"A tsunami can carry contaminated water up into the treeline and push water up creeks and rivers that would normally carry water out to the ocean," Englethaler told Insider.
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It's the first time rescuers were able to pump water directly out of the cave entrance; smaller pumps previously drew water from creeks that run into the cave system.
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The Environment Protection Authority in the state of Victoria said on Monday that heavy rains had caused fecal pollution to wash into Port Phillip from rivers, creeks and drains.
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"You've got arguments over harvests, you've got young guys going up into the creeks trying to find more oysters—the old rules are going out the window," Frederick says.
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As our trip took us west, and as the streams and creeks became washes and gulches, rios and draws, these names confirmed the abiding connection between language and landscape.
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About 300 residents holed up near their gunpowder magazine in late July 1816, as American troops and a group of allied Creeks assaulted the outer walls of the fort.
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"715 – CREEKS," which twists Vernon's voice — both live and on the album — through a variety of filters and effects, took on the effect of an old hymn or gospel song.
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From 1935 until 13, without warning its neighbors, Monsanto disposed of tens of thousands of pounds of PCBs by dumping them into creeks or burying them in and around Anniston.
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Many coastal and inland communities were still under water, either from coastal storm surge or overrun rivers and creeks, and dangerous conditions existed from downed power lines and damaged homes.
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Scientists have used DNA collected from the environment (eDNA) to test for the presence of elusive endangered species in creeks, for example, but it hadn't been used to study books.
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"The star streams that have been mapped so far are like creeks compared to the giant river of stars we predict will be observed eventually," said Dierickx in a statement.
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"Here in West Virginia, many creeks run orange" from the contamination, said Ms. Rois, who moved to West Virginia in 2012 with her partner to take care of elderly relatives.
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Although rain is not expected to return to the area until midweek, it takes time for the rivers, creeks and streams to get rid of all that water, she explained.
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The water leaving the roadways, yards, and urban areas eventually drains into rivers, creeks and streams, so many of them will not crest until later in the week, Chinchar said.
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Most of its waterways are slow-moving creeks and bayous that wind their way through the city and eventually trickle into the shallow, marshy coastline of Galveston and Trinity Bays.
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It's crisscrossed by about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) of channels, creeks and bayous that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (20053 kilometers) to the southeast from downtown.
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On Thursday, National Weather Services issued flash flood warnings for the Paradise area, warning that "life-threatening flooding of creeks, roads and hillsides is likely" and urging residents to remain alert.
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"Be prepared for water over roads due to rapid rises on creeks and streams or even water flowing from farm fields," the NWS in Des Moines, Iowa, said in an advisory.
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We bathe our feet in creeks (hoping that anyone drinking downstream is using a water filter), and on this trip we luxuriated in the Deep Creek hot springs beside the trail.
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Guinea-Bissau is home to just 1.8 million people and covers just 10,800 square miles, but its plethora of remote islands and unpoliced mangrove creeks makes it ideal territory for smugglers.
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While the 246-mile peninsula doesn't offer the oceanfront access that the Hamptons do, its array of waterfront possibilities includes creeks, canals, rivers and bays, not to mention Long Island Sound.
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Heavy rains and rising temperatures Thursday "could have possible impacts on area creeks and rivers, especially any that recently experienced ice jam flooding," the weather service said in a statement Wednesday.
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It would require Nestle to conduct certain research to determine whether its water extraction and bottling affects creeks and wildlife habitats, and how the hydrology would change without the bottling operation.
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The religious superstition of the creeks and hollers where the aftermath of the Great Depression endures has already fended off so many advances in rational thinking that it's impenetrable by now.
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In the mountainous terrain, the combination of gravity, plus the easy runoff can lead to catastrophic flooding, when all of that water is funneled into the rivers, creeks, and even the valleys.
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Authorities had been searching through creeks, rivers and land to find a 4-year-old girl who wandered away from her home on the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation on Thursday.
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The North Fork doesn't have the South Fork's Atlantic Ocean beaches, but buyers can find houses perched on bluffs overlooking Long Island Sound, facing farmland or creeks, or on Great Peconic Bay.
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From near extinction, the snowy egret is once again a fixture along any number of coastal waterways and quiet freshwater ponds and creeks — a common bird along New York City's summer shorelines.
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"I don't drink out of the creeks - and I used to," said Sergeant Nathaniel Trujillo, a narcotics expert with the sheriff's department of Trinity County, about 200 miles north of San Francisco.
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At Pasifueres village, about 9 km (4003 miles) of streams and creeks running alongside homes have so far been mapped using drones, and then deepened and widened both by hand and dredgers.
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Water is reported to have reached some homes and businesses and at least four creeks and at least three bayous are presently overflowing, according to data from the Harris County Flood Warning System.
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Any attempt to cut off the flow of capital, technologies, products, industries and people between economies, and channel the waters in the ocean back into isolated lakes and creeks is simply not possible.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An all-female freshwater fish species called the Amazon molly that inhabits rivers and creeks along the Texas-Mexico border is living proof that sexual reproduction may be vastly over-rated.
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GeoPark said the focus of its project in Block 64 is between the Situche and Anaso creeks, where Shuar and Achuar native communities that are not affiliated with FENAP have supported oil exploration.
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The worst of the storm would come in the days after landfall, when record rains swelled the creeks and rivers of the Cape Fear region, transforming Wilmington and the surrounding area into archipelagos.
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"(Not) Water" is the centerpiece of "Works on Water," a 26-day event, the first in a planned water-devoted triennial, that includes expeditions to nearby creeks and an on-site art exhibition.
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Mindful of the veterans' grievous war wounds — some physical, some psychological — Washington's chapter of Team River Runner likes to avoid the crowds in nearby creeks and more heavily used stretches of the river.
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The river is nourished by an assortment of springs and creeks, and though its Spanish name means "bitter," the water is sweet enough to cultivate a string of biological pearls along its length.
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Extra ambitious paddlers can try out the famous 99-mile Wilderness Waterway, which connects Flamingo and Everglades City through a maze of mangrove-lined creeks after securing a permit to camp along the way.
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As the smaller creeks and streams brought more and more water into rivers making their slow march to the Atlantic, the crests continued to climb, overflowing river banks and compromising dams and flood defenses.
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"Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low lying spots," according to the weather service.
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The ranch has mountains, rolling hills, canyons and bluffs filled with wildlife -- as well as some of the best trout fishing in the state, thanks to the creeks running through the 6,713-acre property.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has attempted to cover that shortage with bottled water deliveries, but some desperate residents have been drinking from whatever water sources they can find, such as rivers or creeks.
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The Wildlands League alleged that De Beers failed to report mercury levels from five out of nine surface water monitoring stations for the creeks next to its open pit mine between 2009 and 2016.
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So far, the species has been found only in pine forests of southern Alabama and in the Florida Panhandle, an ecosystem of creeks and bottomland swamps that is a hot spot of biological diversity.
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REZU AMTALI, Bangladesh — They stumble down muddy ravines and flooded creeks through miles of hills and jungle in Bangladesh, and thousands more come each day, in a line stretching to the monsoon-darkened horizon.
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Whether they like to fish, water ski, explore creeks and bays or cruise to the North Fork, "if they are boaters, they need a dock," said Enzo Morabito, an associate broker with Douglas Elliman.
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Creeks and man-made canals held water that swirled in a range of toxic hues: umber-slate, or milky green, or shades of blue-gray that were indistinguishable from the opalescent sheen-coated soil.
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The Wildlands League alleged that De Beers Canada failed to report mercury levels from five of nine surface water monitoring stations for the creeks next to its open pit mine between 2009 and 2016.
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We are dying," Cruz said she was hopeful the situation would improve, but added, "People can't fathom what it is to have children drinking from creeks, to have people in nursing homes without oxygen.
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The sustained black market is also a concern for environmentalists, who say marijuana grown illegally in public forests cuts into hillsides, siphons water from creeks and is treated with pesticides that foul the water.
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It also detected neptunium in water and sediment samples from a private property adjacent to the construction site and enriched uranium, neptunium and plutonium on private properties and streams and creeks within the Piketon vicinity.
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For miles, the Acadian convoy and other rescue workers made their way down the shoulder, past abandoned cars roof-deep in water and desolate stretches of country road that had become turbulent creeks and streams.
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"Any attempt to cut off the flow of capital, technologies, products, industries and people between economies, and channel the waters in the ocean back into isolated lakes and creeks is simply not possible," he said.
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Riverdale is built out of all the shows that came before it, all the Dawson's Creeks and Veronica Marses, and it appears to have learned from what the fan bases of those shows complained about.
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Given the lack of intelligence about the militants, the army launched a wide-ranging hunt across the Delta this week, sending gunboats into mosquito-infested creeks and searching villages in the middle of the night.
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In 2015 Shell accepted responsibility for operational faults that caused the 2008 spills that dumped tens of thousands of oil barrels into creeks around Bodo, and paid a settlement of 55 million pounds to villagers.
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The Australian government is considering a proposal to build one of the world's largest coal mines in this remote locale, known as the Galilee Basin, where acacia and eucalyptus trees grow wild between scattered creeks.
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Pokémon Go, then, is a bit of a throwback to the franchise's roots: Just like bug hunters in Japan, Pokémon Go players are now running around streets, parks, forests, and creeks to catch 'em all.
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People have been drinking water from creeks contaminated by dead animals, which has led to at least two people dying from leptospirosis, a disease that spreads when the urine of infected animals gets into drinking water.
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Salivating at the prospect of a huge payday from a Texas development company, the defiant Rapanos proceeded to level and fill the site, which was connected by ditches and creeks all the way to Lake Huron.
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From Mumbai to Manila, the urban poor settle under bridges, along creeks and railway tracks, and beside landfills, under threat of forced evictions by authorities keen to modernize the cities and build more offices and malls.
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Streamers could listen to commentators talk about both the Flash Wolves' Karsa and Longzhu's Crash and, while gazing out over the evergreens and creeks, see both combatants at once—a brand-new experience for esports viewers.
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On Wednesday, Reuters photographers saw thousands of desperate Rohingya wade through shallows and narrow creeks between islands of the Naf river to reach neighboring Bangladesh as the exodus begun two months ago was far from over.
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Korich, 59, who has two daughters of his own, balanced his instruction with frequent breaks for playing in nearby creeks, and often found himself standing under a tree, praying that Maxine wouldn't fall out of it.
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A study published in 2015 by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife determined that marijuana gardens had depleted a number of creeks and streams during the dry season, imperiling salmon and trout in the waterways.
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I was screwing around on rafts on the Cedar River and Prairie and Indian creeks, fishing for catfish, running a trapline, doing field work — corn detasseling, a rite of passage for Iowa teenagers — and weeding gardens.
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While the feared Black Course is among the most daunting tests in major championship golf, the layout is nearly devoid of the usual streams, creeks, lakes or other water hazards typically featured at a golf course.
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"We've had so much water in the last two days, some of these small creeks, they flash flood," said Officer Josh Thomas, a spokesman for the law enforcement division of the state Department of Natural Resources.
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And, we wanted everything that was necessary to give them that: playgrounds, parks, lakes, beaches, clean creeks and rivers, swimming and wading pools, social centers, reading rooms, clean fun, music, dance, song and joy for all.
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As these river herring crowded into spawning creeks every spring, they were noted by the earliest French Jesuits, Dutch trappers and English settlers, and were caught and consumed with abandon by Native Americans and colonists alike.
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In July, a Reuters reporter and photographer accompanied Samayong, Bondien and others on a three-boat party to various points where water from the ponds gushed from pipes, leaving foamy trails of scum in the creeks.
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A flood warning for northern and parts of central Iowa has been extended through Saturday evening as "local creeks and streams, as well as the main river branches are running high," according to the weather service.
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Across southern Louisiana Sunday, residents scrambled to get to safety as rivers and creeks burst their banks, swollen from days of heavy rain that in some areas came close to two feet over a 48-hour period.
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Rain gauges in parts of Harris County, which includes most of Houston, showed water levels approaching 20 inches since late Sunday night, with slightly smaller amounts elsewhere in Southeast Texas as bayous and creeks overflowed their banks.
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A new stomping ground Located on the banks of the Nam Khan River, in the north of the country, MandaLao camp occupies 13 hectares of land, including shady spaces, forests, creeks and a veterinary facility on-site.
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Oil spills, sometimes due to vandalism, sometimes to corrosion, are common in the Niger Delta, a vast maze of creeks and mangrove swamps criss-crossed by pipelines and blighted by poverty, pollution, oil-fuelled corruption and violence.
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Besides the Long Island Sound and the Great Peconic Bay, there is the long, meandering Mattituck Inlet, dotted with marinas, that extends inward from the Sound, and a couple of boat-friendly creeks on the bay side.
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"There are all these streams and creeks of offenses that seem to be converging into a bigger river — impeachment," said Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and former constitutional law professor who serves on the Judiciary Committee.
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In return for some of the land flanking the tidal creeks where their mangroves stood, locals recalled, the company would provide running water, electricity and much-needed employment for youths in the surrounding area, known as Pitas.
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