| An enlarged floodway will eventually protect the city against a flood likely to occur once in about 700 years. |
| The truck and its two trailers veered off the road and plowed across a floodway before spilling its contents. |
| The water-level study shows that the expanded floodway would benefit some communities at the 1997 flood levels. |
| About 40 per cent of water flowing into the Seine River at peak flows would be diverted directly into the floodway. |
| I first went in there in 1980 — that is, into the Atchafalaya swamp, away from its floodway levees, and miles from the river. |
| The Red River flood of the following year was comparatively less severe, in large part due to the mitigating impact of the Red River floodway. |
