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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.
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Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Aug. 2025
In 2020, the county passed two ordinances to tighten rules on building in high-risk areas and prevent development in floodways.
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Laura Sullivan,
NPR,
9 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.
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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
In 2020, the county passed two ordinances to tighten rules on building in high-risk areas and prevent development in floodways.
—
Laura Sullivan,
NPR,
9 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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The largest among them, the Hardy Dam on the Muskegon River, needs a multi-hundred-million-dollar spillway upgrade to comply with modern flood safety standards.
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Jurado said that pollution and turbidity in the spillway discharge is a concern, too.
Noun
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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.
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The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodway. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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