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River management is a continuous activity as rivers tend to 'undo' the modifications made by people. Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and dams may suffer seepage or catastrophic failure. The benefits sought through managing rivers may often be offset by the social and economic costs of mitigating the bad effects of such management. As an example, in parts of the developed world, rivers have been confined within channels to free up flat flood-plain land for development. Floods can inundate such development at high financial cost and often with loss of life.
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River Oaks features complete facilities, including a putting green, club and cart rentals, a pro shop and a licensed dining room. Special weekend packages are available, and River Oaks has expanded to include a lodge for overnight stays. The club house, meanwhile, offers locker rooms and spacious comfort with a natural pine interior. A wrap around deck outside sports a panoramic view of the lush East Coast countryside.
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The channels of a braided river—such as portions of the Platte River that flow through Nebraska—change course frequently, so the river’s water may cover the entire floodplain on a regular basis. The sediments of braided rivers are usually gravel and cobbles. Sometimes a meandering river may change into a braided river in the middle zone if the supply of sediment increases as a result of farming or grazing activities in the watershed.
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The water flowing in a perennial river may do a great deal of work, eroding and depositing sediment in the channel and floodplain. A perennial flow has enough time and energy to separate the sediment by size. The water moves coarser particles together in areas of the river where the water flows very fast. It deposits these particles sooner than finer particles, which are lighter and can stay suspended in the slower, less powerful flows. In perennial streams, slower flows that occur within the floodplain area (they are slower because the land is not steep here) deposit the finer particles on the floodplain.
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With her red stern wheel churning the mighty Mississippi and her flag flying high in the balmy blue sky, the Delta Queen is the quintessential American river ship. Unique touches abound, including a rare ironwood floor gracing the Orleans Room, an 1897 steam calliope and the same ship's bell that sounded out landings for the steamboat Mark Twain rode downriver in 1883.
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During River's early childhood, she grew up alongside her brother, Simon, part of the wealthy Tam family on the "core" (Alliance-dominated) planet of Osiris. It is remarked throughout the TV series that she was extremely gifted intellectually from a very young age (she is noted as having “corrected Simon's spelling since she was three”), and ... very graceful. She has been portrayed and described consistently as having always had both a strong thirst for knowledge and a love for and intuitive grasp of dance. By the time she was 14 years old, she had grown “bored” with her studies and was already in some form of college.
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