Bank Storage

Water that seeps into the ground along the banks of a stream during a time of high flow. This loss of water into the ground slightly reduces the height that the stream will attain and then slowly seeps into the stream as the high water level subsides – hence the term “bank storage”.

Related terms:

• left bank
• storage equation
• surface storage
• depression storage
• bank sand
• bank gravel
• run-of-bank gravel
• bank
• annual storage
• Base Flow