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Recent Examples of spillwayWater stopped flowing over the spillway by mid-afternoon Saturday.
Because of flood debris, the LCRA on Saturday was urging the public to avoid boating or swimming in the Highland Lakes.—Powered By, Austin American Statesman, 7 July 2025 Its successor has since entered use, most recently allowing herring to bypass a spillway for the first time in 80 years.—New Atlas, 12 May 2025 The spillway is opened when the river is flowing into the Gulf at a rate of 1.25 million cubic feet per second.—Amy Graff, New York Times, 3 May 2025 An extended drought in California kept surface water levels so low, the spillway was almost completely dormant for six years, KOVR and SFGate reported.—Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spillway
The closest the data center would be to Weston Gardens is 370 feet, said Riley, due to a wooded floodway and floodplain between the Black Mountain property and Weston’s.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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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