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Technical water terms, definitions and acronyms.

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creek

a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river.
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cubic feet per second (cfs)

a rate of the flow, in streams and rivers, for example. It is equal to a volume of water one foot high and one foot wide flowing a distance of one foot in one second. One "cfs" is equal to 7.48 gallons of water flowing each second. As...
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