A fast-flowing stretch of a river or stream below a dam or watermill.
（水坝，水磨的）退水道，尾水渠
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The wheel trough and tail race were later reconstructed, the wheel house demolished and the west wall of the mill building replaced and the interior partitioned.
As questionable as it might at first seem, the tail race is a popular site for drift diving.
Inaugurated in 1899 the remains of the weirs, head and tail races, power house and turbine house can still be seen.
The disposal of the tailings was still a problem and extra elevators were sometimes used to get rid of them as an alternative to digging ever bigger and deeper tail races.
Each night, after the day's work, Marshall would open the sluice gate to flush out from the tail race all the sand and gravel accumulated from the day's digging.
Some of the waste water from the tail races of these mills is now being collected into large iron-tubes and is used again by mills situated at the base of the cliff.
A strong jet of water was used to undermine the hillside and wash the loose soil and gravel into tail races up to 500 metres long.
The gravels of the terraces have been sluiced away and large stones have been stacked to guide the tail races and the settling boxes.
With young engineers with no experience, they didn't clean out the tail race of the river and the water backed up into the power house and flooded it, and that was the finish.
Water that powered the mill's water wheel flowed out through a tail race through the western side of the Mill building.
1908: The mills are gone, though the head and tail races remain.