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  • n  a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream

  • He engineered the streambed to just the right grade for optimum flow velocity, and lined it with clean gravel quarried from the property.
  • Some 20 minutes by foot from the town of Waiyevo, this entirely natural streambed chute plummets for about 50 meters down the lush hillside and is a favorite haunt for local .
  • It meanders into a streambed, emerges from the other side and then stops abruptly.
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  • 'We need to heal'
    Thirty-four years ago on July 16, 1979, the dam at the Northeast Church Rock Mine, owned and operated by the United Nuclear Corp., broke and released tons of radioactive waste into the Rio Puerco, eventually contaminating 80 miles of streambed.
    July 18, 2013 - Navajo Times

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