natural flood channel

natural flood channel
A channel beginning at some point on banks of stream and ending at some other point lower down stream, through which flood waters naturally flow at times of high water. C. M. Bott Furniture Co. v. City of Buffalo, 131 Misc. 624, 227 N.Y.S. 660, 665

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