tailrace

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Tours will include the generator floor, turbines, penstocks and tailrace areas.

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  1. noun The part of a millrace below the water wheel through which the spent water flows.
  2. noun A channel for floating away mine tailings and refuse.

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  • Tours will include the generator floor, turbines, penstocks and tailrace areas. —  Minot Daily News
  • Wade A. Rubia is one of 10 men charged in relation to Operation Click, an undercover investigation into a salmon poaching ring involving the area known as the tailrace in Deer Lake. —  The Western Star: Local
  • Youghiogheny Reservoir, Youghiogheny River (Fayette County) -- Slushy conditions were reported this week on the reservoir, and the tailrace of the reservoir was at normal flow Tuesday. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • Youghiogheny River: Water was in good shape yesterday and anglers were targeting trout stocked in February at the tailrace. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • It was 150 years ago this January that Jim Marshall, the boss carpenter of a crew of Maidu Indians and transient Mormon settlers who were building a sawmill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, glimpsed a metallic twinkle in a freshly dug tailrace. —  AmericanHeritage.com
 

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