floodway
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of floodway
Example Sentences
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Some areas on the east side of the city that had been removed from the floodway were inundated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
Fema's official flood maps show that some of Camp Mystic's cabins were within a "floodway", a particularly hazardous area where dangerous floodwaters would be expected to flow, the New York Times reported.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
She became an activist for the devastated Broadmoor neighborhood, helping scuttle early plans to raze what was left there and turn the area into a park and floodway.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
River Partners played a key role in creating the Dos Rios Ranch Preserve, a 2,100-acre floodway expansion near the confluence of the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023
The floodway has recently been expanded so that it can be used to divert more of the Red River’s flow away from Winnipeg.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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