Sentence examples for tailrace from inspiring English sources

A water turbine uses the potential energy resulting from the difference in elevation between an upstream water reservoir and the turbine-exit water level (the tailrace) to convert this so-called head into work.

The California Gold Rush was sparked by James Marshall's discovery in 1848 of placer gold in the tailrace of Sutter's Mill near Coloma (commemorated by the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park).

In Toronto an explorer has bolted a pitch and abseiled into the vast tailrace pipe under the Niagara Falls.

Adult salmon swimming to their spawning grounds upstream must be prevented by screens from entering the turbine tailraces at power stations and induced instead to enter a fish pass that allows them to surmount the dam.