[ noun ] a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine <noun.artifact>
Tailrace \Tail"race`\, n. 1. See {Race}, n., 6.
2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
The new design would draw water directly from the tailrace of the J.C. Boyle Dam, carry it 10 miles downstream through canals and conduits built into the canyon wall, to a powerhouse where it would spin generators and be returned to the river.