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Catchment area

Drainage basin, an extent of land where water from precipitation drains into a body of water


Balerno Community High School

The school stands on the banks of the Water of Leith, and serves children from the areas of Balerno, Kirknewton and Ratho, and also hosts pupils from a variety of areas outside the catchment area such as Currie, East Calder, Mid Calder and Edinburgh.

Leptolebias

Specifically, Leptolebias species have been found in two regions to date: between Maricá and Vila de Cava in Rio de Janeiro state, and between Itanhaém in southern São Paulo state and the Paranaguá bay catchment area in Paraná state.

Ok Tedi River

The sand conditions underneath the river and the extremely high rainfall of the catchment area make it one of the fastest moving rivers in the world.


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Aliwal North Hospital

Aliwal North Hospital is a 40 bed government funded District hospital that renders level 1 care to patients in the catchment area of the Maletswai Local Municipality in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Balfron High School

The catchment area extends over most of West Stirlingshire including the villages of Arnprior, Balfron, Balmaha, Blanefield, Buchlyvie, Croftamie, Drymen, Fintry, Killearn, Kippen, Milton of Buchanan and Strathblane, along with the hamlets of Balfron Station, Boquhan, Buchanan Smithy and Mugdock.

Caerleon Comprehensive School

The school's catchment area covers Primary Schools in Caerleon and Ponthir, along with Langstone Primary School, Usk Junior School and some students from central Newport schools.

Cotter River System

Nevertheless, the Cotter River System is a larger catchment area and due to recent drought conditions the Queanbeyan River has been seen as obsolete in comparison.

Drsadvati River

Sahibi has much lower flow at present time because of low rainfall in catchment area, though having wide dry beds at places, which carries the water from south to north from Districts of Jaipur, Sikar, Alwar Rewari, Jhajjar, Rohtak and Delhi in Yamuna.

Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel Light Railway

Within its catchment area the railway was also known as "Jan Klein".

Espinho

:** Espinho, Portugal, the city/urbanized catchment area of the municipality of Espinho

Fairfield Preparatory School

The catchment area for Fairfield is large due to the school’s popularity with children travelling from Loughborough and the surrounding villages and from as far as Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland and Derby.

Field River

The catchment area of the Field River includes the Happy Valley Reservoir, part of Main South Road and the Southern Expressway and covers a total area of 55.3 km2.

Ghana Oil Company

However, the main distribution points for fuels are Liaison Office, Central Depot, and the Accra Plains Depot all within the Tema catchment area, and the Takoradi Depot.

Graigue-Ballycallan GAA

The catchment area for the club is the villages of Kilmanagh, Ballycallan and Graigue Cross.

Huntley High School

The catchment area includes Consolidated School District 158, which includes all of Huntley as well as parts of Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, and other surrounding communities and rural areas.

Igelbäcken

This part of the catchment area contains a motocross track, a golf driving range, a closed dump, and receives stormwater from the E18 traffic route.

Karak, Pahang

With its location at the foothills of Malaysia’s main mountain range, the Titiwangsa Mountain Range, this town is an important water catchment area not just for Pahang but for the Klang Valley as well.

Kuébéni River

The river has a catchment area of 38 square kilometres and is noted for its red clay and Pisolitic sandstone and nickel mining.

Lochgelly High School

The school's catchment area covers Lochgelly and the surrounding towns and villages of Ballingry, Cardenden, Crosshill, Glencraig and Lochore.

London's Air Ambulance

From its base at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, the helicopter can reach any patient inside the M25 London orbital road, which acts as the service's catchment area, within 15 minutes.

Lossiemouth High School

The school's catchment area includes the nearby villages of Burghead, Hopeman, Cummingston and Duffus.

Mallee Catchment Management Authority

The Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) region is the largest catchment area in Victoria, Australia, covering approximately 3.9 million hectares – almost one-fifth of the State.

Mount Kent

Murrell River rises on Mount Challenger, but tributaries coming off Mount Kent, Harriet and Two Sisters... it could be seen as part of the catchment area.

Newbattle Community High School

When first built, Newbattle High served the communities of Mayfield, Easthouses and Newtongrange, but following the closure of Greenhall High School in 1994, its catchment area expanded to include Gorebridge, Temple, Borthwick and North Middleton.

Notwane River

In the Gaborone dam catchment area there are many other dams, mostly very small, with only the Nnywane Dam near Lobatse being used for domestic water supply.

Parakai

The Parakai School community catchment area reaches from the immediate flats surrounding the Kaipara River and up the South Kaipara Heads Peninsula.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Pulichinthala Project

It has 30 Tmcft live storage capacity to impound the Krishna river flood waters generated from the catchment area located downstream of Nagarjunasagar Dam.

River Ashop

The flow of the Alport is partially diverted by a weir to feed into the Ashop above the impound weir built in the 1920s to increase the catchment area of the Derwent Reservoir prior to the building of the Ladybower Reservoir downstream.

Scenic Drive, Auckland

The road passes through the village of Waiatarua, but most of it is through native bush, in Centennial Memorial Park or the neighbouring water catchment area.

Shiyang River

The catchment area of the Shiyang River covers about 41,600 km2, most of which lies within today's Wuwei prefecture-level city of the Gansu Province.

South Bromsgrove High School

The catchment area of the school includes pupils from Alvechurch Church of England Middle School, St. John's Church of England Middle School or Aston Fields Middle School.

South Park, Ilford

The area around the park has become known as South Park and the nearby primary school, the catchment area of which covers a large part of the south of Redbridge, is known as South Park Primary School.

St Louis Grammar School, Kilkeel

The pupils come from the surrounding catchment area: Warrenpoint, Annalong, Newcastle, Castlewellan, Hilltown and Rostrevor.

Uummannaq Fjord

The main urban settlement today is Uummannaq, once an administrative center of a municipality which covered the entire catchment area of Uummannaq Fjord, and now part of the Qaasuitsup municipality of northwestern Greenland, the largest municipality in the country.

Vorberge

Adenstedt in the catchment area of the Riehe, southeast of the Vorberge

Westfeld in the catchment area of the Alme, northeast of the Vorberge

Sibbesse in the catchment area of the Despe, north of the Vorberge

Wollaston School

The Wollaston School catchment area includes the villages of Bozeat, Brafield-on-the-Green, Castle Ashby, Chadstone, Cogenhoe, Denton, Easton Maudit, Great Houghton, Grendon, Irchester, Little Houghton, Strixton, Whiston, Wollaston and Yardley Hastings.

Woodchurch

Despite the low income catchment area, the local State Comprehensive, Woodchurch High School, has consistently attained a strong ranking in the Government's national league tables for secondary education.