Definition of floodway
: a channel for diverting floodwaters
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At the same time, the change allowed preparations for a shopping center to be built in a floodway.
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Why would a project like this be allowed in a floodway?
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The spillway, located in St. Charles Parish, includes a nearly 6-mile floodway that is used to divert a portion of the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain and away from New Orleans.
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The floodway is a natural 5.7-mile course between guide levees to Lake Pontchartrain.
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The researchers will deploy remote receivers in the floodway and at the entrance to Lake Pontchartrain to monitor the movements of both fish species.
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Here’s a heat map of the areas where the most homes have been added in these flood-prone areas, combining the risky floodway, the slightly less risky 100-year floodplain, and the less risky 500-year floodplain.
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The commission oversees how the Corps runs the system of levees and emergency floodways in the lower Mississippi.
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Jerry Alegria, a civil engineer and surveyor in attendance, said if the project gets to the mapping stage, the map should delineate the floodway where the creek water runs from the adjacent floodplain.
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First Known Use of floodway
1928
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