streambed

The regional water board is also monitoring Sandy Creek, the site of the streambed disaster.

The department did not respond to questions about whether it has ever cited or fined companies that have spilled oil and altered the streambed in Sandy Creek.

Chevron corralled the oil in a dry streambed, and within days the flow petered out.

A web of surface expressions quickly developed, with continuous oil pools forming in the streambed.

Morning dawned gloomily; there was a light mist hanging over the streambed, and much of the sky was turgid with clouds.

Then they topped the bank of a wide shallow dry streambed and saw the remnants of other safari below them.