Recent Examples on the WebFor 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 The floodway leading to Dongdian can contain ten times the water of the canal linking the Baigou River to Baiyangdian, and serves as the main flood relief channel for the Baigou River.—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for floodway
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