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I didn't know that dams counted as tributaries as well? Any explanation as to this? Shannontalkcontribs 03:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Oh, I was just following the style of List of tributaries of the Columbia River. Dams aren't tributaries, of course, but they do turn rivers into lakes. I suppose the basic idea is that it would seem helpful in a list like this to note natural lakes (say Flathead Lake and Pend Oreille in the Pend Oreille basin, like at List of tributaries of the Columbia River#Pend Oreille River system. But oops, I see the Columbia page says in the lead that dams are included and this page doesn't. I meant to include it in the lead and will add it. In any case, I don't know if these kind of lists are useful for anyone else, but for me they help in keeping track of large and complex river systems--how and where the streams connect, which to which and where. Noting the dams helps because, if nothing else, most reservoirs are fairly obvious on maps. In the case of this page, the dams are almost all redlinks, so another purpose is to compile a list of dams with no Wikipedia pages, with some context about where in the river system they are. Pfly (talk) 05:55, 22 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
