spillway
Example Sentences
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To handle the extra volume, engineers send surplus water down 5 Shaft into the deep pool below, much like an overflow spillway helps relieve pressure at a full reservoir.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Next to the lake, a spillway flows into a stream that the Department of Water Resources refers to as Blue Canyon Creek.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
Had that not been done between 2018 and 2021, and regular excavations conducted since, last week’s storm would have forced officials to release a full-to-the-brim reservoir through the dam’s spillway, Pestrella said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
“You don’t need peak high clearance, but there’s a spillway you have to cross, with a kind of water bar bump where you’ll want clearance.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
On this side of the lake there was a concrete wall with a spillway.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
