"tailwater" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "tail + water",
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          "ref": "2008 May 27, Peter Kaminsky, “Rules for Reservoirs Pose Threat to Trout Population”, in New York Times",
          "text": "Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.",
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        "The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert."
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          "bridge",
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  "word": "tailwater"
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