1. Also called: catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin
the area of land bounded by watersheds draining into a river, basin, or reservoir
2.
the area from which people are allocated to a particular school, hospital, etc
Examples of 'catchment basin' in a sentence
catchment basin
The lakes differ by size and depth while sharing the same bedrock setting and catchment basin.
Renata Trevisan, Marco Picarella, Frank B. Dazzo, Stefano Bona, Giuseppe Morabito,Andrea Squartini 2014, 'Using a morpho-functional approach to assess phytoplankton dynamics in two adjacenthigh-mountain lakes: a 10-year survey', Journal of Limnologyhttp://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/891. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Samples of water were taken from the lake (4 sampling points) and from wells dug within the catchment basin.
Krzysztof Jóżwiakowski, Agnieszka Listosz, Magdalena Gizińska-Górna, Aneta Pytka,Michał Marzec, Bożena Sosnowska, Alina Kowalczyk-Juśko, Antoni Grzywna, Andrzej Mazur,Radomir Obroślak 2016, 'EFFECT OF ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS ON THE QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS AND GROUNDWATERSIN THE CATCHMENT BASIN OF LAKE BIALSKIE', Journal of Ecological Engineeringhttp://www.journalssystem.com/jeeng/EFFECT-OF-ANTHROPOGENIC-POLLUTANTS-ON-THE-QUALITY-OF-SURFACE-WATERS-AND-GROUNDWATERS-IN-THE-CATCHMENT-BASIN-OF-LAKE-BIALSKIE,64508,0,2.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)