Spillway is often used in civil engineering when discussing water management structures.

Engineering Term

The term can imply safety measures against potential floods due to overflow.

Flood Prevention

Refers to the method by which excess water is diverted to prevent overflowing of dams or rivers.

Overflow Management

 we make concessions for the environment but we rarely create behaviors that are in tune with the plants and animal species within those environments it is possible though for us to begin building much more responsive landscapes this prototype of a spillway basically

Creating living...

 in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the salamanders habitat is destroyed so