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Examples of spillway
spillway
Spillway excavation is nearly done, and concrete should be poured within a year.
From the sacbee.com
Once water pours over the spillway, the corps can't control the amount released.
From the newsobserver.com
Whiskerfish take chicken livers, nightcrawlers or mackerel around the spillway.
From the sacbee.com
Wiper fair using crankbaits on points, with a few being caught in the spillway.
From the kansas.com
Some things, like the sherry-rich turtle soup and the spillway crayfish, I loved.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Some of the artefacts uncovered when the Army corps opened up a spillway in 1975.
From the guardian.co.uk
The channel carved out of the rock is very impressive especially on the spillway.
From the en.wikipedia.org
To achieve this another spillway was built a few metres east of the existing one.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Try along the Narrows, barrel line and in front of the spillway at 40 to 60 feet.
From the sacbee.com
- A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
- A spillway is a structure used to provide for the controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into a downstream area, typically being the river that was dammed. Spillways release floods so that the water does not overtop and damage or even destroy the dam. ...
- (Spillways) A channel for an overflow of water. Ditches and spillways are constructed around tailings ponds to allow water to run off without being contaminated.
- The section of a dam that is designed to pass water over or through it.
- A passage for surplus water to flow over or around a dam.
- Dams without floodgates are designed with an area called a spillway that allows water to flow freely over it during floods. A controlled spillway has floodgates.
- An outlet pipe or channel serving to discharge water from a dam, ditch, gutter, or basin.
- The part of the dam that allows high water to flow (spill) over the dam.
- The channel or passageway around or over a dam through which excess water is diverted.
