A spillway is in the plans. When it was breaching last year, I'd only just finished repairing the dam where it'd been washed out about 15 years ago. Hadn't gotten to the spillway yet.
The problem was that the spillway wasn't anything more than a slightly cut out part of the dam. It needs more substance to it than that (concrete) and needs to not be used as much (by dramatically increasing the freeboard, thus the total volume of water the lake can hold.
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