The contributing streams and other watercourses including brooks, rills, and rivulets, extending upstream to the point where water usually begins to flow in a regular channel, with an alveus, or bed, and banks or sides, or to the point where the lines of ordinary high water marks converge, whichever extends the farthest up-gradient.
TRIBUTARIES
Meaning of TRIBUTARIES in English
Environmental engineering English vocabulary. Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга. 2012