spillway

How To Use spillway In A Sentence

• Although the dam held, it sustained damage to its concrete core and spillway.
• The jet device can measure the erosion potential of a soil in vegetated channels, road embankments, dams, spillways, and construction sites.
• Construction is expected to start on the first part of the dam wall, which is the foundation for the second spillway, by the end of May.
• Projects include dams, spillway and diversion channels, intakes, and distribution systems.
• Heavy downpours during recent months caused impounded water to rise faster than the spillways could cope and they collapsed Sept.12, forcing 1,000 families to flee the area.
• The current software program predicts how an earthen spillway will perform and evaluates its potential for failure.
• After the spillway breached, it was about 190 feet wide and 40 feet deep.
• We have been at the dam in years gone by when the roar of water pouring over the spillway was deafening, and could even be heard at the car park.
• Slowed by dams and spillways, with much of its flow siphoned off for users around the West, the lower Colorado is highly controlled.
• It had been extinguished in some parts of the Ord Project Area with respect to the dam area and spillways and irrigation areas.