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• n  a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

• The most promising and most seriously considered flood-control method is the spillway.
• Mud flows through a massive spillway to a pumping station, from which it gushes into the river.
• It is the world's fifth largest earth-filled dam and has the largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.

• spill
• wasteweir

News & Articles

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• Fishermen rescue two adults, child who capsized below Ft. Loudoun Dam
  TWRA says the man, woman, and 5-year-old child were fishing below the dam when the turbulence from the water being spilled over the dam started pulling the boat into the spillway.
  June 12, 2013 - WBIR-TV Knoxville
• Shooting range to close
  The David C. Berti Shooting Range located in the Warren G. See South Spillway Recreation Area at Mark Twain Lake will be closed from dusk Thursday, June 13, until the morning of Monday, June 17.
  June 9, 2013 - The Hannibal Courier-Post
• Registration under way for McNary Dam Run
  Registration is open for the McNary Dam Run, which will begin at 8 a.m. June 22 at Spillway Park at
  June 8, 2013 - Tri-City Herald

Quotes

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• Rupiah Banda in Reuters South Africa
  We are moving tents to people that will need them and we will provide relief maize because some people will lose their maize when the spillway gates are opened,Banda said.
• Subandrio in Jakarta Post
  We have to have a spillway for some of this economic pressure, and that's a temporary worker program, which allows us to take economic migrants and channel them in an regulated and visible way, so we know who they are, so we can track them, and so... Michael Chertoff http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEqGdVq0ZaxVaP46dPLXwSGnQzi_A WOOD-TV http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D4911645&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH8dOtNdCz1vfFZ_GqSV9qEbwOg-w May 16, 2006 93167 123829 spillway There was no problem with the spillway at all at the time, that's why we built up the embankment, to prevent the water from spilling into the eastern part," the head of the center, Pitoyo Subandrio, said Sunday.