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Also in attendance: Nashville architect Alan Dooley, who helped the church win a historic designation for the building, and that allowed Metro Codes to issue permits for the rebuild, even though the building is (clearly) in a floodway.
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The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodway
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The spillway was built in 1931 to remove pressure on the levees protecting New Orleans by diverting up to 250,000 cubic feet of fresh water per second into Lake Pontchartrain’s brackish waters.—
Amy Graff,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The South Florida Water Management District is working with the Army Corps of Engineer and county officials on an expensive plan to put in 20 new pumps and raise spillway gates.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2025
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Still, on May 4, India lowered sluice gates at the Baglihar dam, effectively reducing the downstream flow to Pakistan through the Chenab River by up to 90%, according to the Hindustan Times.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
7 May 2025
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This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.—
Erik S. Hanley,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodway. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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