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pertaining to or moving over a calm, level, or slow-flowing water channel

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  • If so, Potomac Appalachia badly needs more such water to fill out the resource and to attract the many people who are interested mainly in flat-water activities.
  • Paddling along flat-water rivers, you can often see Tronychidae Concinna, a softshell river turtle, crawling up the branches of deadfall trees that are snagged out in...
  • Basin, and would have no major disruptive scenic effects but instead would provide a great deal of high-quality flat-water recreation in an area where there was...
  • The reservoir's proper functioning would require fluctuations in its level, with occasional ugliness at the shoreline, and if it would permit a great deal of happy water-skiing...
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