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spillway

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Definitions of spillway in various dictionaries:

noun - a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

A channel for an overflow of water, as from a reservoir.

noun - a channel for surplus water in a reservoir

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Possible Crossword Clues
Reservoir's outlet
Might the overflow go back and forth around the tablet?
Let the water go over it in the manner of the southern medicine
Surplus-water passage
Tablet in power for overflow passage

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Oct 11 2012 Universal
Aug 4 2010 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword
Sep 24 2009 Universal
Apr 6 2000 Irish Times (Crosaire)
Nov 21 1997 Irish Times (Crosaire)

Spillway description
A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into a downstream area, typically the riverbed of the dammed river itself. In the United Kingdom they may be known as overflow channels. Spillways ensure that the water does not overflow and damage or destroy the dam. * Floodgates and fuse plugs may be designed into spillways to regulate water flow and reservoir level. Such a spillway can be used to regulate downstream flows by releasing water in small amounts before the reservoir is full, operators can prevent sudden large releases that would happen if the dam were overtopped. * Other uses of the term "spillway" include bypasses of dams or outlets of channels used during high water, and outlet channels carved through natural dams such as moraines. * Water normally flows over a spillway only during flood periods when the reservoir cannot hold the excess of water entering the reservoir over the amount used. In contrast, an intake tower is a struct

Spillway description

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into a downstream area, typically the riverbed of the dammed river itself. In the United Kingdom they may be known as overflow channels. Spillways ensure that the water does not overflow and damage or destroy the dam.
* Floodgates and fuse plugs may be designed into spillways to regulate water flow and reservoir level. Such a spillway can be used to regulate downstream flows by releasing water in small amounts before the reservoir is full, operators can prevent sudden large releases that would happen if the dam were overtopped.
* Other uses of the term "spillway" include bypasses of dams or outlets of channels used during high water, and outlet channels carved through natural dams such as moraines.
* Water normally flows over a spillway only during flood periods when the reservoir cannot hold the excess of water entering the reservoir over the amount used. In contrast, an intake tower is a struct

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