Apart from the commonly used spillways, a few other types of spillways are used sometimes for a project, which are explained below. 

1. Saddle Spillway 
   In some basins formed by a dam, there may be one or more natural depressions for providing spillway. They are sometimes preferred for locating main spillway or emergency or auxiliary spillways. A site which has a saddle is very desirable and economical, if the saddle is suitable for locating the spillway. An example for such a spillway may be seen in Figure 9. 

2. Fuse Plug
   It may be a simple earth bank, flash board or other device designed to fail when overtopped. Such plugs may be used where the sudden release of a considerable volume of water is both safe and not over destructive to the environment. “For example, the saddle spillway of Figure 9 may be constructed as an earthen embankment dam, with its crest at a slightly higher elevation than the High Flood Level (HFL) of the reservoir. In the occurrence of a flood greater than the design flood which may cause rise in the reservoir water would overtop the earthen embankment dam and cause its collapse and allow the flood water to safely pass through the saddle spillway.

3. Sluice Spillway
   The use of large bottom openings as spillways is a relatively modern innovation following the greater reliance on the safety and operation of modern control gates under high pressure. A distinct advantage of this type of spillway is that provision can usually be made for its use for the passage of floods during construction. One disadvantage is that, once built, its capacity is definite whereas the forecasting of floods is still indefinite. A second disadvantage is that a single outlet may be blocked by flood debris, especially where in flow timber does not float.
   Figure 20 shows an example of a sluice spillway.

4. Duck-bill Spillway 
   This is a spillway with rectangular layout projections into the reservoir comprising three straight overflow lengths intersecting at right angles. The layout could be trapezoidal in which case the corner angles will be other than 90 degree. The flow from the three reaches of the spillway interacts in the trough portion and is further conveyed through a discharge carrier on to a terminal structure to provide for energy dissipation. An example of this type of spillway is shown in Figure 21.

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