• Thumbnail for Freshet
    The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting. A spring...
    20 KB (2,447 words) - 23:21, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gap (landform)
    gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through...
    4 KB (163 words) - 00:18, 3 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Yangtze
    to the upper river, the section stretching from Yichang to Chongqing. Freshets from Himalayan snowmelt created treacherous seasonal currents. But summer...
    109 KB (11,686 words) - 18:11, 22 July 2024
  • Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station during a freshet...
    37 KB (3,456 words) - 05:55, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flash flood
    Drowning Flash Flood Guidance Systems Flash flood warning Flash flood watch Freshet Huayco Lifesaving Kalla kadal Storm surge Jökulhlaup "Flash Flooding Definition"...
    17 KB (1,854 words) - 17:29, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Missouri River
    channel year-round, and are capable of halting most of the river's annual freshets. However, high and low water cycles of the Missouri – notably the protracted...
    189 KB (18,105 words) - 13:07, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reversing Falls
    against the prevailing current when the tide is high, although in the spring freshet, this is frequently surpassed by the downstream volume of water. The rapids...
    5 KB (585 words) - 22:10, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Emily Dickinson poems
    advantage is achieved F38.03.009 1935 4.144 7.126 799 854 Dew — is the Freshet in the Grass S06c.05.015 1914 2.044 5.044 1097 1102 Did life's penurious...
    221 KB (979 words) - 02:14, 12 June 2023
  • Jacob Eelkens became commander on Christiaensen's death in 1616. In 1617 a freshet damaged the fort to such an extent that it was abandoned and rebuilt on...
    7 KB (579 words) - 14:07, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lower Mainland
    region-wide floods in 1894 and 1948, both associated with an extreme spring freshet of the Fraser River. Other major floods in the Lower Mainland – including...
    51 KB (3,041 words) - 05:27, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bangor, Maine
    to 12 feet (3 to 3.7 m) above the normal highwater mark and in 1887 the freshet caused the Maine Central Railroad Company rails between Bangor and Vanceboro...
    67 KB (7,279 words) - 23:24, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reservoir
    white-water sports. On salmonid rivers special releases (in Britain called freshets) are made to encourage natural migration behaviours in fish and to provide...
    52 KB (5,675 words) - 00:37, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maritsa
    border at Kapitan Andreevo, is also named in honour of the river. Spring freshet of Maritsa River at Harmanli View from the river, Edirne. The river viewed...
    13 KB (1,234 words) - 22:05, 4 June 2024
  • Mohicans and Mohawks in 1617, and with Fort Nassau badly damaged by a freshet, the Dutch abandoned the fort. In 1618, having once again negotiated a...
    35 KB (4,283 words) - 19:40, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Vancouver
    Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as...
    47 KB (5,476 words) - 09:26, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity
    thus generates much more power when seasonal river flows are high (spring freshet), and depending on location, much less during drier summer months or frozen...
    17 KB (1,951 words) - 07:31, 26 June 2024
  • history of flooding in Canada includes floods caused by snowmelt runoff or freshet flooding, storm-rainfall and "flash flooding", ice jams during ice formation...
    77 KB (8,841 words) - 00:42, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    enquiry into Robert Graves's version of some Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Freshet library, no. 2. Abbey Press (Berks). ISBN 9780900012327 – via Hathi Trust...
    70 KB (8,816 words) - 23:41, 24 July 2024
  • Floods in the United States before 1900 is a list of flood events that were of significant impact to the country, before 1900. Floods are generally caused...
    24 KB (2,725 words) - 18:40, 9 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Maritime transport
    (restricted by icing) of temperate latitude canals which suffered ice and freshet flooding damages with dreary regularity. When floods did affect railways...
    37 KB (3,077 words) - 14:09, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Celilo Falls
    deep. The falls are from 3 to 12 and 15 feet high." During the spring freshet in June and July, the falls could be completely submerged. The falls were...
    29 KB (3,068 words) - 19:10, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richmond, British Columbia
    risk of a major flood if the Fraser River has an unusually high spring freshet. Recreational trails run along the tops of many of the dykes, and Richmond...
    98 KB (8,013 words) - 17:13, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ymir, British Columbia
    Quartz Creek in Ymir, during the spring Freshet in May 2020...
    15 KB (1,131 words) - 08:49, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Severn
    the Canal & River Trust, who are the navigation authority. During spring freshet the river can be closed to navigation. At Upper Parting above Gloucester...
    52 KB (5,659 words) - 12:42, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Red River (Asia)
    Cai section, where the current may be quite fast, especially during the freshet season, traveling upstream in an wupan was much more difficult than downstream...
    15 KB (1,199 words) - 15:19, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia Lake
    Columbia, passes within a few thousand feet of the south end of the lake. In freshets the Kootenay, here already a large stream, sometimes overflows into Columbia...
    3 KB (268 words) - 08:53, 5 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
    Great Depression, the plans were never realized In April 1929 after some freshet damage, the railroad repaired a break in the towpath, so that they could...
    121 KB (12,007 words) - 01:49, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2024 Central Asian floods
    Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. Snow melt caused freshets resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. In Russia, a federal emergency was...
    8 KB (666 words) - 12:47, 25 May 2024
  • the family Dolichopodidae. This species typically inhabits mud flats and freshet seeps in east-central Washington. Adults are active from late April to...
    3 KB (180 words) - 05:56, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fraser River
    Major flooding occurred once again in 1972 due to a significant spring freshet, primarily impacting regions around Prince George, Kamloops, Hope and Surrey...
    38 KB (3,778 words) - 00:30, 22 May 2024