surplus water
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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
Nine years out of 10, they’ll receive payment from a conservation group in exchange for leaving the surplus water in the river.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
This was the first year in memory that Fort Bragg could not sell its surplus water to Mendocino Village, an old lumber town of historic Victorians and homegrown boutiques.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
Brown said the plan would actually help store surplus water that California would get in wet years, which could then be transported down to Southern California and fill in empty reservoirs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2015
Waste′fulness; Waste′-gate, a gate for discharging surplus water from a dam, &c.;
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
