Sentences with phrase «behind levees»

From 1990 to 2005, flood disasters were declared in every state — along rivers and lakes, behind levees and dams, anywhere snow melted or rain fell.

This is a good start, but we need to do more: stop giving taxpayer protection, and indirectly encouraging development, to communities behind levees.

Still, people felt safe behind the levees so they wouldn't leave.

Not exact matches

The program deems that a certified levee will protect homes behind it from a 100 - year storm.

(When a levee breaks, some water remains and inundates the land behind the breached embankment.

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.

Higher levees in some areas make flooding worse in other areas, and development continues behind all the berms

Less ubiquitous, however, were images of the secondary setback suffered by New Orleans homeowners: an onslaught of aggressive mold left behind by the receding waters, an example of which can be seen in this photo taken less than a month after the storm hit, showing the scarred walls of Danielle Boyce Batten's home in Lakeview, where the 17th Street Canal levee was breached.

Near Leandro Erlich's lone window perched high on a ladder like a triumphant fist, the hideous wreckage of a Katrina - battered house gave mute testimony to the once - broken levee behind it.