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1967, Lawrence K. Lustig, Robert D. Busch, Sediment Transport in Cache Creek Drainage Basin in the Coast Ranges West of Sacramento, California, page 2:
The efficient evaluation of these plans, which may include the construction of dams, reservoirs, and settling basins, requires information on sediment transport in the Cache Creek drainage basin.
Translations
topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet
