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Recent Examples of spillway
There, it was successfully utilized to help spawning American shad and blueback herring bypass a spillway located between Lake Marion and the Santee River.
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New Atlas, 12 May 2025
The spillway was built in 1931 to remove pressure on the levees protecting New Orleans by diverting up to 250,000 cubic feet of fresh water per second into Lake Pontchartrain’s brackish waters.
—Amy Graff, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Most recently, fears that the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway would fail caused more than 180,000 people to evacuate.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 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
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New Atlas, 12 May 2025
The spillway was built in 1931 to remove pressure on the levees protecting New Orleans by diverting up to 250,000 cubic feet of fresh water per second into Lake Pontchartrain’s brackish waters.
—Amy Graff, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Most recently, fears that the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway would fail caused more than 180,000 people to evacuate.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spillway
Noun
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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.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Aug. 2025
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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
Noun
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Wilson’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
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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
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“Spillway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spillway. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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