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Spillway, the Glossary

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.^[1]

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Bonneville Dam

Bonneville Lock and Dam consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1.

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Burdekin Falls Dam

The Burdekin Falls Dam, also known as the Burdekin Dam, is a concrete gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Burdekin River in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Covão dos Conchos

Covão dos Conchos is an artificial lake in the Serra da Estrela mountains in Portugal that is famous for its Bell-mouth spillway.

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Crystal Dam

Crystal Dam is a, double-curvature, concrete, thin arch dam located 6 miles downstream from Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Spillway and dam are dams and hydraulic structures.

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Dam safety systems are used to monitor the state of dams, including external physical threats to the dams, and issuing emergency warnings at various degrees of automation. Spillway and dam safety system are dams.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fish ladder

A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as movements of potamodromous species.

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Floodgate

Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. Spillway and Floodgate are dams.

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Frequency of exceedance

The frequency of exceedance, sometimes called the annual rate of exceedance, is the frequency with which a random process exceeds some critical value.

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Fuse plug

A fuse plug is a collapsible dam installed on spillways in dams to increase the dam's capacity. Spillway and fuse plug are dams.

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Gabion

A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.

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Geehi Dam

Geehi Dam is a major ungated rockfill embankment dam across the Geehi River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.

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Hope Mills Dam

The Hope Mills Dam, also known as Hope Mills Dam #1, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rockfish Creek in Hope Mills, North Carolina, USA, which created Hope Mills Lake.

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Horse Mesa Dam

The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains, northeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Hungry Horse Dam

Hungry Horse Dam is an arch dam in the Western United States, on the South Fork Flathead River in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Montana.

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Hydraulic jump

A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon in the science of hydraulics which is frequently observed in open channel flow such as rivers and spillways.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Intake tower

An intake tower or outlet tower is a vertical tubular structure with one or more openings used for capturing water from reservoirs and conveying it further to a hydroelectric or water-treatment plant. Spillway and intake tower are dams and hydraulic structures.

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Inverted bell

The inverted bell is a metaphorical name for a geometric shape that resembles a bell upside-down.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Lake Berryessa

Lake Berryessa is the largest lake in Napa County, California, United States.

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast. Spillway and levee are flood control.

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Monticello Dam

Monticello Dam is a high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Morning glory

Morning glory (also written as morning-glory) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics are in flux.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New Waddell Dam

The New Waddell Dam is an embankment dam on the Agua Fria River in Maricopa County, Arizona, northwest of Phoenix.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Ogee

An ogee is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine- or extended S-shape (sigmoid).

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Oroville Dam crisis

In February 2017, heavy rainfall damaged Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways, prompting the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River and the relocation of a fish hatchery.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Potential energy

In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Return period

A return period, also known as a recurrence interval or repeat interval, is an average time or an estimated average time between events such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, or river discharge flows to occur.

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Roller-compacted concrete

Roller-compacted concrete (RCC) or rolled concrete (rollcrete) is a special blend of concrete that has essentially the same ingredients as conventional concrete but in different ratios, and increasingly with partial substitution of fly ash for Portland cement.

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Shiga Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.

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Siphon

A siphon (also spelled syphon) is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes.

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Sluice

A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.

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Stepped spillway

A stepped spillway is a spillway with steps on the spillway chute to assist in the dissipation of the kinetic energy of the descending water. Spillway and stepped spillway are hydraulic structures and spillways.

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Tailrace fishing

Tailrace fishing is angling immediately below natural or man-made dams or restrictions to the flow of water on rivers, canals, streams or any other flowing current. Spillway and Tailrace fishing are dams.

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Tarbela Dam

Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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Toddbrook Reservoir

Toddbrook Reservoir, a feeder for the Peak Forest Canal, opened in 1838.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.

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United States Government Publishing Office

The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States Federal government.

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Ute Dam

Ute Dam (National ID # NM00293) is a dam at Logan, New Mexico in Quay County, about west of the Texas state line.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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100-year flood

A 100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. Spillway and 100-year flood are flood control.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillway

Also known as Bell mouth spillway, Bell mouthed spillway, Bell-mouth spillway, Bell-mouthed spillway, Bellmouth, Bellmouth overflow, Bellmouth spillway, Controlled spillway, Flip bucket, Morning glory spillway, Ogee crest, Outlet channel, Overflow channel, Reservoir overflow, Shaft spillway, Spillway design flood, Spillway design flood (SDF), Spillways, Stilling basin, Stilling box.

Spillway, the Glossary

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Dams

Flood control

Hydraulic structures

Spillways

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