Chute (Open Channel/Trough)

Spillway
 A spillway whose discharge is conveyed from the reservoir
to the downstream river level through an open channel,
placed either along a dam abutment or through a saddle,
might be called a chute, open channel, or through type
spillway.
 The chute spillway has been used with earth-fill dams.
Sometimes, even for gravity dams, a separate spillway is
required because of the narrowness of the main valley. In
all such circumstances, a chute spillway is provided.
 It is lighter and adaptable to any type of foundations and
hence provided easily on earth and rock fill dams.
 Chute spillways ordinarily consist of an entrance
channel, control structure, a discharge channel, a
terminal structure, and an outlet channel.
 The simplest form of chute spillway has a straight
centerline and is of uniform width.
 Often, either the axis of the entrance channel or that
of a discharge channel must be curved to fit
alignment to the topography