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Recent Examples of sluicewayWilson’s New Freedom would open the sluiceways of competition by slashing tariffs, strengthening anti-trust laws and increasing access to credit.—Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018 The town has opened the floodgate to the dam draining the pond behind it and allowing Roaring Brook to flow freely downstream through a sluiceway.—Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 12 Apr. 2018 However, the sluiceways were sealed years ago after a child became trapped in one and drowned.—Joshua Emerson Smith, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
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
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.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Aug. 2025
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