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Recent Examples of floodway
At least four of the camp's cabins that housed younger campers — as well as the camp's recreation and dining halls — were located within what FEMA calls a floodway.
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Laura Sullivan, NPR, 13 July 2025
Some are in an area known as a regulatory floodway, which must be kept unobstructed for water to move freely during a flood.
—Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 12 July 2025
Van Zandt said recent FEMA flood maps indicted that the area in Kerr where the camp was located in zones designated as a floodway, which indicates a very serious threat to floods and where construction and development are generally discouraged, or in the FEMA 100-year flood risk warning.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 11 July 2025
At the same time, Kerr County officials were considering how to manage floodway areas, including those at Camp Mystic.
—New York Times, 10 July 2025
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Laura Sullivan, NPR, 13 July 2025
Some are in an area known as a regulatory floodway, which must be kept unobstructed for water to move freely during a flood.
—Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 12 July 2025
Van Zandt said recent FEMA flood maps indicted that the area in Kerr where the camp was located in zones designated as a floodway, which indicates a very serious threat to floods and where construction and development are generally discouraged, or in the FEMA 100-year flood risk warning.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 11 July 2025
At the same time, Kerr County officials were considering how to manage floodway areas, including those at Camp Mystic.
—New York Times, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodway
spillway
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For many years, the lake level was maintained at 290 feet, which is about 40% capacity, 25 feet below the spillway level of 315 feet.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Nicasio proposal calls for modifying the spillway gates at Seeger Dam, which was constructed on Nicasio Creek in 1960 to create the reservoir.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodway. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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