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
Because the dam was constructed in a canyon too narrow to support a typical spillway, officials erected the unique engineering feature to still allow for drainage — the Morning Glory Hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
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
Lowry found fields of half-submerged corn, soybeans that had disappeared under the flooding almost entirely and rapids rushing from their spillway like a waterfall.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
On this side of the lake there was a concrete wall with a spillway.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
