The dam was constructed by 1934 as part of a hydroelectric scheme and is the only braided river in New Zealand that is dammed.
22.
Because black stilts nest on braided river beds, they are threatened by changes in river flows as a result of new and existing hydroelectric dams.
23.
The "'lower Jefferson "'opens up again into a meandering, braided river from Sappington bridge approximately 24 miles downstream to its confluence with the Madison River.
24.
Material from the highly erodible Southern Alps is removed via weathering; then carried across the Canterbury Plains by various braided rivers to the east coast beaches.
25.
Semi-aquatic species remained abundant during this middle period, and the geology of the formations indicates that a braided river system took the place of the coastline.
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These currents transport coarse greywacke sediments that have reached the coast down braided rivers that originated at the Southern Alps and fine sediments from further offshore.
27.
For most of its length the Rakaia River runs on shingle river beds as a braided river but here the river is mostly a single channel.
28.
The "'Tagliamento "'( ) is a braided river in north-east Italy, flowing from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea at a point between Trieste and Venice.
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For much of its course the river is a braided river, with a wide bed of greywacke shingle and gravel and a number of streams of water.
30.
For alluvial streams, straight and braided rivers have very low sinuosity and flow directly down hill, while meandering rivers flow from side to side across a valley.
