FAULKNER COUNTY, Ark. – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) reached the halfway point in their five-year Lake Conway project by finishing most of their primary spillway, a passive concrete water-control wall holding lake water at a normal level.
When water would rise above the spillway, the water immediately flows out. Nick Feltz with the AGFC explained the special design they used for the primary spillway.
“It’s called a labyrinth or sawtooth style spillway,” Feltz said. “It’s kind of got some zigzags in it and so what that accomplishes is as water’s leaving the lake it comes to one of these zigzags in the spillway and it can fall over either edge.”…