sluice

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Yet after back-to-back atmospheric rivers walloped California in less than a week, it wouldn’t take much for water, mud and boulders to sluice down fragile hillsides, experts warned.

From Seattle Times

Fish and Wildlife Service, which otherwise protects the birds — the Corps in 2015 unleashed a concerted kill program on the cormorants to control predation on baby salmon sluicing downriver to the sea.

From Seattle Times

Postgraduate researcher David Vandercruyssen said: "High tides can be limited to existing levels simply by closing sluices and turbines and existing low tide levels can be maintained by pumping."

From Science Daily

As the tide ebbs the water is released through a sluice, which pushes a water wheel, which turns the grinding stones.

From BBC

Over time, the Maya built canals, dams, sluices and berms to direct, store and transport water.

From Science Daily