In the North East the flood situation has eased with only the River Wear at Chester-le-Street remaining on a severe warning.
It is now second on the river only to the sprawling Yangzi River company.
Thus were exposed not only the Snake River Potato Growers but the hard-cider producers of New York and Vermont (who were to be allowed to pay lower federal excise taxes) and the sheriffs of Mississippi, who were to be allowed a new tax deduction for business expenses.
Mobridge, so named because it has the only bridge over the Missouri River for 150 miles, is home to 3, 800, yet it is the commercial center for 27, 000 people within a 60-mile radius.
And it is not only the water in the Yellow River, which flows through nine provinces, that is at risk from contamination.
While the river is only several inches deep at the bank, the middle of the river can be four to five feet deep in places and thick with boulders.
But today, only the Big Bend portion of the river can support the large crane population.
What's more, the Patuxent River is only 75 yds. away, and the fish--with an air sac in its digestive system that allows it to absorb oxygen, and the ability to flop its way across small stretches of muddy land--could soon wriggle into the nation's waterways.
Developing Donlin Creek means barging equipment up the Kuskokwim River, navigable only six months of the year.
NovaGold has tried to estimate for years how much it might cost to build a mine at Donlin, which requires barging equipment up the Kuskokwim River, navigable only six months of the year, in the face of extreme weather and environmentalists.
He need only look across the Hudson River to New York to see how well that works.
Only the affluent boroughs of Richmond and Kingston along the river to the west prevent the completion of the orange doughnut.
Two vehicles tumbled into the river but only minor injuries were reported.
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The foghorn on the Mendocino headlands moaned through the night like a lovelorn elk, the only clue to what lay outside my windows at the Albion River Inn.
The Lebanese Cabinet decided only yesterday to let the troops move beyond the Litani River, which is a very strategic point.
"Having only to come across the water (River Tamar) from Torpoint is very handy for my wife, " he said.
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The Congo River is only about 30 to 50 yards wide here, and it looks like an average, mid-sized waterway rather than the vast, powerful one it will become.
The Port of London Authority (PLA) imposes a 12-knot (14-mph) limit west of Wapping, which means that boats can show their exhilarating 30-knot cruising speed only on the eastern stretches of the river.
For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
North Korea's presence is much less visible, even though the Tumen River border is only 27 km away.
For example, Latvia operates two major hydro-electric plants on the Daugava River which provide only half of Latvia's electricity needs.
They built only on high ground, mostly left the river to its own devices, and relied on the wetlands as a natural barrier to buffer and deplete any incoming hurricanes.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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At the southern end of the Western Explorer, on the banks of the Pieman River, the former gold-rush settlement of Corinna offers the only accommodation inside the Tarkine.
Last year heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Chao Phraya river system, on which Bangkok sits, and the Thai capital only just avoided a catastrophe.
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He was referring to the Hudson River School as we stood in a gallery that included not only "Heart of the Andes" but also Albert Bierstadt's "The Rocky Mountains Landers Peak" and Emanuel Leutze's monumental "Washington Crossing the Delaware, " which dwarfed both.
As recently as the 1950s, there were as many as 500 cormorant fishermen working on the Li River, but now only a handful remain, mainly to stage shows for visitors.
In statements read at the hearing on Monday witnesses described the "roar" of the river, and how it was cascading over a weir where normally the water was only a few inches deep.
My only disappointment was that none of the views faced the Hudson River.
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