A Network Rail spokesperson said it was sorry to drivers disrupted during the closure, but the bridge of the railway and river Frome tributary needed to be shut for safety reasons.

Source: https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/23255784.stoke-edith-road-closed-no-date-network-rail-repairs/?ref=rss

“A traceable connection between wetlands to the navigable waterway or to a tributary to a navigable waterway would be my opinion on how or where the jurisdiction should begin,” he said.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-wetlands-supreme-court-marian-byrnes-20230510-tm7y2x7cpfeq3lbvhubwgsnjve-story.html

A village clerk, she spent much of her life in the same little house in Afanansiivka, a quiet, pretty hamlet along a Dnipro tributary downriver from the dam.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/world/europe/ukraine-dam-flooding-damage.html

By 1973, BC Hydro completed the Duncan, Arrow and Mica dams on the Columbia, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished Libby Dam on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary, in Montana.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/aug/11/canada-u-s-negotiate-future-of-columbia-river-in-seattle-this-week/

Incredibly, the Thames even used to be a tributary of the River Rhine.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/09/letter-from-london-take-me-to-the-river/

Lincoln Creek is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, but Aspen’s domestic water supply is not affected; the city’s drinking water comes primarily from Castle Creek.

Source: https://www.postindependent.com/news/epa-report-says-lincoln-creek-contamination-is-naturally-occurring/

Livestock waste also the Southwest’s last free and untamed stretch of a major river—the Gila, a tributary of the Colorado River.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/29/the-beef-industry-is-destroying-the-american-west-and-worsening-the-climate-crisis/

Natural England last assessed the Wye and its tributary the River Lugg in 2010 and on seven units of assessment found one to be favourable, with the rest unfavourable-recovering.

Source: https://www.bicesteradvertiser.net/news/national/23556550.natural-england-downgrades-river-wye-wildlife-decline/?ref=rss

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, has been under construction since 2011 on the Blue Nile, the main tributary into the Nile, in northwestern Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.

Source: https://themedialine.org/by-region/talks-between-egypt-ethiopia-and-sudan-on-controversial-dam-trickle-out-again/

The report cites a 2021 study by Colorado Parks and Wildlife in which a trout was captured in a clean tributary only inches upstream from its confluence with Lincoln Creek and then exposed to the water collected in Lincoln only a few inches downstream.

Source: https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/lincoln-creek-uninhabitable-for-aquatic-life-says-epa/article_37313142-7ed8-11ee-a650-475044b50dfb.html

The Yamuna, an important tributary of the Ganga, is considered holy in Hinduism.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/reviving-a-dead-river-cultural-event-to-celebrate-legacy-of-yamuna/article66767338.ece

They hold mining leases on about 4,700 acres within the Bitterroot National Forest near Sheep Creek, a tributary to the West Fork Bitterroot River.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/22/new-mining-push-threatens-bitterroot-and-salmon-rivers/

University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher Christy Remucal found that Lake Michigan tributary water bodies and their sediment can be sources of PFAS, which can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods.

Source: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/01/study-toxic-pfas-chemical-plume-detected-in-green-bay/