floodway
English
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editfloodway (plural floodways)
- An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
- 2009 March 30, Kirk Johnson, “Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo”, in New York Times[1]:
- Since 2005 the governments of Manitoba and Canada have spent $665 million to double the capacity of the floodway and to reinforce bridges, control gates and dikes.