floodway

基本解释

There's approximately 90 homes that are in the way of the floodway.
大约有90户居民的房子挡住了泄洪道。
Floodway; high-flow diversion Natural or man-made bypass channels or conduits that redirect flood waters around or away from urban centers or area of high population density.
泄洪道，分洪道，溢流槽天然或人造的泄洪渠或泄洪管道，以引导洪水绕过或远离城市中心或人口稠密地区。
Aim at the characteristics that parts of oil wells of oil-field in Jiangsu locate the Hongze area floodway in the lake, which designed a kind of lake area oil extraction terrace.
针对江苏油田部分油井位于洪泽湖区泄洪道上的特点，设计了一种湖区采油平台。

McPhee spent months trying to understand the centuries of engineering prowess that have gone into trying to control the Mississippi, especially the creation of structures much in the news today, like Old River Control and the Morganza Floodway, which was opened over the weekend to allow floodwaters to course down through the Atchafalaya basin.
FORBES: Is This The Year The Atchafalaya River 'Captures' The Mississippi?