霞かすみ堤てい

noun

open levee; discontinuous levee

A levee with intentional gaps to allow floodwater to flow back into the river channel after a flood, reducing pressure on the levee system. Technical term in civil engineering.

• 霞かすみ堤ていは、洪こう水ずい時じに水みずを一いち時じ的てきに遊ゆう水すい地ちへ導みちびく役やく割わりがある。

  Open levees serve to temporarily divert floodwater into retarding basins during floods.