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Recent Examples of floodway
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.
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Daniel Lehewych, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025
In Georgetown, two RV parks along the San Gabriel River that were all but wiped off the map are directly in the floodway, where water moves most forcefully during storms.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025
At least four of the camp's cabins that housed younger campers — as well as the camp's recreation and dining halls — were located within what FEMA calls a floodway.
—Laura Sullivan, NPR, 13 July 2025
Camp Mystic has two sites, both of which overlap with either the floodway or areas the federal government has determined have a 1% or 0.2% annual chance of flooding.
—Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
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Daniel Lehewych, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025
In Georgetown, two RV parks along the San Gabriel River that were all but wiped off the map are directly in the floodway, where water moves most forcefully during storms.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025
At least four of the camp's cabins that housed younger campers — as well as the camp's recreation and dining halls — were located within what FEMA calls a floodway.
—Laura Sullivan, NPR, 13 July 2025
Camp Mystic has two sites, both of which overlap with either the floodway or areas the federal government has determined have a 1% or 0.2% annual chance of flooding.
—Renée Rigdon, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodway
Noun
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For many years, the lake level was maintained at 290 feet, which is about 40% capacity, 25 feet below the spillway level of 315 feet.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Even a short jaunt — from the Botanical Garden to Dean Village, for example — will provide a sense of peace, with the sounds of bird song and the rushing waters from old spillways.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Charlie got into the shower, letting the hot water sluice off the rest of the blood on her back and whatever had dried in her hair.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
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Mauna Lani staff still manage the ponds in the traditional way: Ocean tides bring fish in through a series of wooden sluice gates.—
Samantha Dunn,
Oc Register,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodway. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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