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Recent Examples of floodway
For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
The floodway leading to Dongdian can contain ten times the water of the canal linking the Baigou River to Baiyangdian, and serves as the main flood relief channel for the Baigou River.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
The floodway leading to Dongdian can contain ten times the water of the canal linking the Baigou River to Baiyangdian, and serves as the main flood relief channel for the Baigou River.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodway
Noun
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Usually, water flows from a spillway inside the wall into a basin below.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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The new spillway would have gates lower than the dam’s existing spillway, allowing water to be released while the reservoir is at lower levels, such as before a large storm passes through.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.—
Erik S. Hanley,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Dec. 2024
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In 2014, Kyrgyz and Tajik conscripts exchanged fire over a strategic sluice in Ak-Sai.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2016
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodway. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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