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floodway

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as in spillway

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Recent Examples of floodway Private property floodways and floodplains are mostly affected when extreme weather events occur, village officials said. — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 Call it resilience, call it infrastructure, call it economic development—just build it before the next 8-year-old goes to sleep in a floodway. — Daniel Lehewych, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025 Corey Waldrop, who owns the property and is developing it under his company Motiv Ventures, plans to reclaim some of that floodway and the adjacent floodplain. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Aug. 2025 Many jurisdictions outright prohibit new construction in floodways, but most of those rules apply only to immovable structures. — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for floodway

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An expansion that would add a backup, a roughly 1,500-foot passive spillway, was supposed to be done this December, but a sinking concrete abutment pushed the completion date to winter 2027.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Garwood said the spillway system dates to the late 1960s, but the pipe was lined last year.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

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The water flow is being managed at Canton Lake, and the Corps of Engineers said the goal is to have between 600 and 730 cubic feet of water per second leave through sluice gates during the greatest period of flow.

— Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 22 Sep. 2026
Dam Removal Europe found that the number of dams dismantled in 2025, along with other water-flow controls like weirs, culverts and sluices, grew by 11% from the year before.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 3 June 2026

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