floodway
noun
flood·way
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Definition of floodway
: a channel for diverting floodwaters
Examples of floodway in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The 425-acre village off Orange Blossom Trail was built in a floodway along the Shingle Creek Basin. — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, "Hurricane Dorian prompts mandatory evacuation for Good Samaritan retirement community in Kissimmee," 1 Sep. 2019 The MR&T Project engineering has not yet been pushed to its limit: one of its four floodways has never been used. — Boyce Upholt, Time, "The Mississippi River Is Under Control—For Now," 9 May 2019 The site plan review was triggered by San Diego County concerns related to a floodway along the property’s south property line at 2216 Raymond Ave. — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, "Plans underway for 12 new homes, equipment sales business," 11 June 2019 The levees are designed to handle only a portion of this flood; when a trigger point is met, the Corps is authorized to open one of the MR&T’s four floodways, sending the excess water down a different route to the Gulf of Mexico. — Boyce Upholt, Time, "The Mississippi River Is Under Control—For Now," 9 May 2019 The controversial Parkwood Plaza shopping center project near Clear Creek is in a floodway - the riskiest part of the flood plain - under the 2007 maps. — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, "Relaxed rules in flood plain help homeowners, but could have consequences later," 14 June 2018 Design review members focused their comments on the project’s landscaping in the floodway. — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, "Plans underway for 12 new homes, equipment sales business," 11 June 2019 Others want to fund different projects - putting the first floodways on the upper Mississippi or expanding locks or undertaking a total rethinking of how the river is managed. — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, "Taming the mighty Mississippi: Troubles run deep in changing national waterway," 17 Mar. 2018 But the cumulative effect of building multiple projects in the floodway can be significant, Zeve said. — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, "Relaxed rules in flood plain help homeowners, but could have consequences later," 14 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'floodway.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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