floodway

English

Etymology

From flood +‎ way.

Noun

floodway (plural floodways)

1. An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
   • 2009 March 30, Kirk Johnson, “Permanent Flood Solutions Just Out of Reach for Fargo”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Since 2005 the governments of Manitoba and Canada have spent $665 million to double the capacity of the floodway and to reinforce bridges, control gates and dikes.