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[shadowclasper]

Okay... now I'm beginning to worry if I'm bugged, because never ONCE have I built a U shaped water access tunnel. Not ONCE and yet some how I have never had a well overflow. Is the wiki just wrong? talking about a previous version maybe? Or is it because I'm somehow having the tunnel access the flow in such a way that water flows in, but the current isn't PUSHING it in? (AKA: I'm really really really damn lucky)

[Reese]

Do you mean this article?

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Well_guide

Have you ever built a well that was down stream from a water fall? the part referring to the U shaped corridor is talking about keeping a water source that is below a water fall from flooding your fortress.

[shadowclasper]

Erm, yes, quite frequently infact... Not directly under, but definitely down stream of.

[Neruz]

The wiki is wrong on that particular front; when water is doing the pathing the edge of the map (where the river flows off) is considered 1 z level below the current water level, so rivers will only ever fill up to their current z-1 via their own pressure as any 'overflow' will preferentially path off the map.

If you block the river though, you'll very rapidly get flooded.