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	The Styx » The Styx - Purakaunui
		Springs feed the river as it meanders north-eastwards through a variety of land use areas, associated with residential, horticultural, agricultural, and lifestyle developments as well as conservation reserves.
		As indicated by the Black Map drawn in 1856, when early Europeans settled in the area, the Styx River and its tributaries were surrounded by extensive wetlands and sand dunes.
		Native sedges and ferns are regenerating under the taller willow canopy along the river margins, and sand dunes and river terraces indicate the natural processes associated with earlier northward movement of the Waimakariri River and the changing coastline.
	www.thestyx.co.nz (251 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rivers begin at their source in higher ground, either rising from a spring, forming from glacial meltwater, flowing from a body of water such as a lake, or simply from damp, boggy places where the soil is waterlogged.
		River management is an ongoing activity as rivers tend to 'undo' the modifications made by man. Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and dams may suffer seepage or catastrophic failure.
		Meuse - principal river of the southern provinces of the Netherlands and eastern Belgium.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=River (2138 words)

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