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Перевод: headwaters

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главный водосбор; головное водохранилище; воды с верховьев; истоки

Тезаурус:

1. Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepcin into the headwaters of the bay - only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift, and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock.
2. Ian Hay told me the lady's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford: "But, you see, his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just didn't know how he was going to get the job done.
3. Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low, while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea.
4. Until last year the Yellow Swordtail was thought to occur only at its type locality in the headwaters of the Rio Sarabia, to the west of the town of Sarabia.
5. A familiar feature in the northern agency's territory is the watercourse with headwaters of good quality which becomes heavily polluted downstream by the effluent from a sewage works serving a large town, or the discharges from one or two major industries.
6. Beyond the Dundonnell Hotel, the road comes alongside the headwaters of Little Loch Broom which penetrates far inland on a course parallel with its bigger twin, the peninsula of Ben Ghobhlach dividing the two.
7. Georgia insists the Chattahoochee belongs to it, because the headwaters are within its boundaries.
8. The main river of the strath is not called Conon but Meig and its headwaters rise on the slopes of Moruisg/Ceannaichean above Achnashellach, giving a through route which was once as busy as Strath Bran but now only sees the rare backpacker with an eye for good cross-country walking.
9. Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system.
10. Cartographic logic suggests it was in fact an isolated hill that stands above the headwaters of the Rio Congo - an unspectacular 1,800 ft-high hillock, somewhat denuded of trees, a short distance away from a rudimentary track (made by wild pigs, or cattle, or perhaps by people long ago) which can still be discerned in the jungle.
11. The highest of the mountain ridges separated the headwaters of the Belpan and Makaa.
12. In the headwaters of most rivers there are large tracts of agricultural land and a virtual absence of industrial discharges.
13. Nicholas Luard and the other members of the group were particularly concerned about the planting of conifers at Bara Ceirch farm as it stands at the headwaters of the Rivers Cothi and Towy, two of the finest salmon rivers in Wales.