0 the area of land from which water flows into a river, lake, or reservoir:
There has been a lot of recent rainfall in the catchment area of the river.
Deforestation in the lake's catchment areas is endangering the lake.
the large area of native forest in the Georges River catchment
They want their son to go to St Mary's, but they're not in the catchment area.
The school has a very small catchment area of only about a mile radius.
If there's a treatment centre you'd rather go to, don't be put off if you're told you're not in the catchment area.
With some hospitals having a catchment area of more than one million patients this will be an expensive system.
Patients were randomly selected from a hospital catchment population of 250,000 persons.
1 the area around a business, school, etc. that its customers, students, etc. come from:
The Dart Valley is the catchment area of the river from Dartmoor down to the sea.
They could run a pipeline from the upper catchment areas of the river.
This beautiful reservoir and its catchment area of heather moorland and conifer forest are managed by the Trust.
Being in the catchment area for a good school could add value to your house.
The authorities were trying to find out if people lied about what catchment area they lived in.
The area is not within the catchment area of the doctor’s present practice.
Most, if not all, of the centers provide outreach clinic services at smaller cities in distant parts of their catchment area, for assessment and follow-up.
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