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(1076) Groundwater cascade
Descent of groundwater on a steep hydraulic gradient to a lower and flatter water-table slope. A cascade occurs below a groundwater barrier or dam which may develop effluent seepage above it, and at the contact of less permeable material with more permeable material downslope.

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