How to Use floodway in a Sentence

floodway

noun

• Why would a project like this be allowed in a floodway?
  — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• In the floodway, not flood plain, was a new home being erected by a builder.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020
• The warehouse will be built where Buck Creek flows southward just east of a known floodway.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2022
• Just beyond the levees, two overlook parks sit above each side of the floodway.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2021
• At the same time, the change allowed preparations for a shopping center to be built in a floodway.
  — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• 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, 9 May 2019
• Adamek also asked about trees that had been cut and left in the floodway without proper disposal.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2020
• The researchers will deploy remote receivers in the floodway and at the entrance to Lake Pontchartrain to monitor the movements of both fish species.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• 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, 14 June 2018
• The flood sparked the federal construction of the levees and floodways that reduced but didn't eliminate the threat of flooding.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2017
• The floodway is a natural 5.7-mile course between guide levees to Lake Pontchartrain.
  — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• The Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana is a floodway that protects the entire South from rising water levels.
  — Spencer George, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2022
• Design review members focused their comments on the project’s landscaping in the floodway.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 11 June 2019
• The commission oversees how the Corps runs the system of levees and emergency floodways in the lower Mississippi.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Preservation of the floodway mitigates the risk of Mississippi river floods, one of which left half a million people homeless in 1927.
  — Mekedas Belayneh, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• Corps officials announced that the floodway would be opened again in early 2019, but then decided against it when the Mississippi’s height dropped slightly.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Boise uses its parks and riverside paths as a natural floodway, to absorb flood waters and prevent flooding downstream.
  — Rocky Barker and Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 3 May 2017
• In a previous meeting, Cobb said they were told the county is spending $100 million purchasing parcels of land along Cypress Creek for detention and floodway projects.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2020
• Jerry Alegria, a civil engineer and surveyor in attendance, said if the project gets to the mapping stage, the map should delineate the floodway where the creek water runs from the adjacent floodplain.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
• But the cumulative effect of building multiple projects in the floodway can be significant, Zeve said.
  — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• That's because federal rules apply in certain floodways.
  — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2020
• The retirement community was built in a floodway and was also evacuated after hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 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, 17 Mar. 2018
• Opening the Bonnet Carré also deposits millions of cubic yards of sediment in the Mississippi River floodway.
  — Thomas Frank, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
• Sarah Standifer, Dallas Water Utilities’ assistant director of stormwater operations, said portable toilets and dumpsters are often snagged in the supports that act as a sieve across the length of the floodway.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• Habitat, groundwater and wetlands benefit from this passive flood control, and the Valley has developed a strong consensus on doing as much as possible to use undeveloped parts of the flood plain as floodways.
  — Rocky Barker and Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 3 May 2017
• The property is currently zoned as single-family residential district, flood fringe and floodway.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2022
• Homeowners whose property is in a Fort Bend County floodway or flood plain may be eligible to receive buyout assistance and will receive priority status.
  — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• Poplar Creek’s floodway and floodplain in Elgin has expanded so significantly that city officials are researching ways to curb future flooding and warning that property owners may need to buy flood insurance, officials said.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• The Corps opens flood-control barriers called spillways or floodways along the Mississippi River during periods of extremely high water to alleviate pressure on a multistate levee system and protect communities.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024