A control structure to limit / stop too high flow into canal (orifice; gated intake); A spillway to reject excess flows back to the river; A sluiceway to ...

... channel with floor set lower than the intake gate sill encourages coarser sediments to move through the sluiceway; In this case a fuse plug was used ...

Sluice way: An opening in the dam near the ground level, which is used to clear the silt accumulation in the reservoir side. TYPES OF DAMS ...

... building, sluiceway, or other structure existing on August 7, 1996. An historic mill also means any historic mill included on the Massachusetts Register ...