Sentences with phrase «as levees»

Cities could build flood defenses such as levees, pumps, and movable barriers, $» but at a cost of tens of billions of dollars per year.

As the levees broke, 85 percent of the below - sea - level city of New Orleans suffered from varying degrees of flooding.

He was on the frontlines of NPR's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, arriving in New Orleans before the storm hit and filing on the chaos and flooding that hit the city as the levees broke.

Dr Orengo said, «It soon became clear that detecting and mapping topographic features such as levees, riverbeds, bluff lines and dune fields could help provide insight into how palaeorivers behaved and eventually disappeared.»

Gulf Coast Swamped — Human engineering efforts such as levees have reduced the ability of the wetlands of Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states to keep pace with subsiding land and rising sea levels, according to coastal scientist Robert Twilley of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Just as those levees were built, a nascent oil and gas industry discovered plentiful reserves below the delta's marshes, swamps and ridges.

Defenses such as levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs are used to prevent rivers from bursting their banks.

«On the other hand, if the barriers are not far enough from the river, they may trap wildlife escaping from floods, and may even act as levees, which tend to increase downstream flooding.»

«Whenever you have development, you are going to increase the runoff, increase how much the rivers and streams have to carry,» says civil engineer W. Gene Corley, a senior vice president at CTLGroup, an engineering firm that evaluates infrastructure, such as levees.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, as well as a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

Just as a levee will eventually break under a certain amount of pressure, your stop - gap «bandage» will eventually unravel.

Also known as the Levee - Top Trail — because it's literally on top of the city's levees — this 60 - mile system of multi-use, car - free trails runs along both banks of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana.

Not exact matches

In a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridges.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

A Dixieland band («straight from the levee,» confided the announcer) tootled away as a slim, sexy blonde songstress snapped her fingers in rhythm.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

As for infrastructure, Mr. Larson was a strong backer of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, which should help rebuild the nation's ports, waterways, dams and levees.

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.

Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans breached as Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subsequently flooding 80 % of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks.

Previous studies had reported more than $ 50 million in levee repair costs as well as damage solely from the rapid flow of water across the floodway after the detonations, which scoured farmland and left behind thick deposits of unwanted sand.

It would then take only one big storm surge to breach the seawall, just as hurricane Katrina sent floodwaters racing past New Orleans's levees.

Examples of operational risk scenarios include rapid lake level rise when the tunnel is closed for repair, and the failure of engineered structures such as the sediment retention structure and levees.

This includes big infrastructure projects to control floods, like levees and breakwaters; retrofitting individual homes or moving homeowners away from floodplains; and restoring wetlands to serve as natural water sinks.

But any such plan would have to compete for money with other flood - protection projects, such as raising levees.

In places, this has been referred to as a «levee war,» whereby one town's levees funnels water downstream to become the next town's crisis.

Part of the damage has been a result of levees failing as they cope with water levels higher than anticipated.

That day and in several later experiments, gaseous carbon dioxide from the thawing ice maintained a lubricating layer under the slab and also pushed sand aside into small levees as the slabs glided down even low - angle slopes.

Levees and floodwalls had sunk by as much as 2 1/2 feet in some places since the system was built.

That new approach could include strategies such as removing or setting back levees in some locations to promote seasonal flooding, strengthening regulations to reduce the discharge of contaminants into waterways, reworking the operations of some dams to facilitate fish passage, and changing federal and state laws to move conservation efforts to a broad, ecosystem - based approach.

Those levees, most of which are simple earthen berms, are weak and vulnerable to earthquakes, seasonal floods, and rising waters expected as a result of climate change.

In the near term before 2040, the most cost - effective way to protect New York likely is a more modest combination of building improvements — such as raising new structures and home foundations — and smaller barrier methods to keep out water, such as small levees, the policy study finds.

The new metric may help engineers determine how the shape of a delta, such as the Mississippi's, may shift in response to engineered structures such as dams and levees, and environmental changes, such as hurricane activity and sea - level rise.

«Finally, we are developing hybrid coastal structure concepts that involve covering a traditional storm protection hard structure like a levee, dike, or T - Wall with a sand dune cover to harness the benefits of both systems and provide aesthetic coastal systems at the same time that can function as regular dunes.»

When this article was first posted, the first paragraph mistakenly described the new levees as made of cement.

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

As an alternative, the study shows that the lowering of human - made levees along the Lower Plaquemines river section to their natural state, to allow storm surge to partially pass across the Mississippi River, will decrease storm surge upriver toward New Orleans.

Such tools could help planners decide whether a given part of a coastline would be better served by «soft» techniques, such as beach replenishment or preservation of wetlands, or by «hard» techniques, such as construction of sea walls or levees.

Mugatu eventually becomes important to the plot, but Ferrell proves to be as tiresome with his shenanigans as Stiller and Wilson are with theirs — in fact, all the actors try so hard to deliver anything of comedic value that the force of the combined flop sweat could crash through any levee anywhere.

Within three months, the region where he grew up suffered its predicated fate, as waters from a levee damaged by Hurricane Katrina submerged 80 percent of the city, sometimes rising to more than 10 feet.

He says something that rings clear and true just as a Border Patrol Chevy Tahoe rattles past us, stirring up a haze of grit from the dry levee road.

If you want to avoid fuel surcharges at all costs, you may want to find another travel program (such as United Airlines) that never levees a fuel surcharge.

Its award chart is not well priced, and they levee heavy surcharges as well.

Code 3 boats along with water - rescue certified personnel are staged each day in Fort Pierre to be used for human rescue as well as animal rescue if the levees do not hold.

Created in 2004 as a collaboration effort between a municipality, Homeless Cat Network and the community, the program balances the humane treatment of the cat population and the needs of the City and users of the levee / pedway that they live beside.

If you like a variety of cafe, bistro and bar settings to choose from, take a stroll along the Old Seaport wharf strip to the award - winning StillWater River Cafe, Restaurant & Wine Bar, as well as Hallam's Seafood Restaurant, La Cantina Restaurant, Salsa and Levee Food Co, and the Black Cow Bistro.

It is a black space, a barrier and engineering feat that receives little attention until failures occur such as the 1927 levee break at Greenville, MS or more recently those caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Downing's surfaces, such as in the marvelous «Abstract Composition» (1970) and «Recall» (1975) are much smoother and cooler than Levee's, by which he achieves a delightful form of lyrical abstraction that deserves acknowledgment superior to what he has received until now.

As others have noted, Katrina the Hurricane didn't have to give rise to Katrina the Human Disaster; scientists and engineers had given much advance warning about the need for new levees and better infrastructure.

Some of the resiliency measures looked at by New York, which other coastal communities can consider, include floodwalls, levee systems, relocation of critical building infrastructure such as electrical equipment and wetland replenishment.

My personal fear is that many of these levees are degraded in ways that may rear up suddenly as near - record flood levels roll through.