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    What is surface water?

    Question #71254. Asked by armindasantana. (Oct 07 06 3:28 PM)


    miffy42

    		Surface water, is water that has collected on the ground, or river, stream, lake, sea or ocean.



    http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/hydr/concepts/hycdex.htm

    Oct 07 06, 3:39 PM
    davejacobs

    		I think the essence of surface water is that it is temporary, so only applies to puddles and such on land.

    Oct 09 06, 1:29 PM
    Baloo55th

    		As opposed to groundwater - the stuff that lies below the water table, or underground streams or sheets of water. (There's a sheet flow under the area where I live - called the Ream - which flows from the Moss out to the beach. Thius is why you can find pools of comparatively fresh water on our beach; they're not left by the tide, they're fresh out of the sand.)

    Oct 09 06, 2:25 PM

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