return flow

return flow
Water, drawn from a stream and impounded or used in irrigation, which subsequently arrives again at the stream from which it was initially abstracted. United States v Warm Springs Irrigation Dist. (DC Or) 38 F Supp 239.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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