Headwaters and Small Tributaries

Headwaters and small tributaries are small streams and rivers near where they are formed (their headwaters). You could throw a rock across these. These are small streams and rivers that are collecting water from an area of less than 40 square miles, only about as large as 1/4 of the city of Detroit.

 
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