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Definition of Floodways
1. floodway [n] - See also: floodway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floodways
Literary usage of Floodways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the St. Francis Valley Drainage Project in Northeastern Arkansas by Arthur Ernest Morgan, Ora Grover Baxter (1911)
"Figure 11 indicates sections adopted for the floodways. ... Figures 10-13 give
the dimensions of levees and floodways, with the amount of land occupied in ..."
2. Hydrology: The Fundamental Basis of Hydraulic Engineering by Daniel Webster Mead (1919)
"Ground water: A disposal, B works needed (open ditches, under- drains, levees,
floodways, outlets, pumping plant). IV. Development Works. 9. ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine (1880)
"Is it not all as the opened floodways of grace and life from Him who hath ascended
up on high, leading captivity captive, and receiving gifts for men, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Miami Valley by John Calvin Hover (1919)
"... canals, levees, dikes, dams, reservoirs, floodways, pumping stations and
syphons; to construct or enlarge any bridges, to elevate roadways and streets, ..."
5. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"floodways cleared and channel modified. • Continued reduction of wetlands.
• Construction of several ponds. • Some wildlife populations increased. ..."
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