Word: floodway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting for Life. Elaborate engineering works built over decades were disdainfully brushed aside by the rampaging Rio Grande-which is known to Mexicans as Rio Bravo, the Wild River. Flicking away a heavy, 200-ft. weir at the junction of a main emergency floodway and a small subordinate channel, the 44.3-ft. tide poured into Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate...
...meter (about 1 1/4 mile) race was held on Winnipeg's floodway, the world's second largest ditch after the Panama Canal. It is used to absorb the floodwaters of the Red River. The Pan-American Games authorities flooded three miles of the 26-mile floodway...
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