Sentences with phrase «breaching embankment»

While there are management solutions to stabilizing the landscape, those solutions are not without challenges, Goodbred said, but the study notes that systematically breaching embankment sections to allow for delivery of sediment to the coastal sea might at least partially reduce problems.

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

The storm surge breached the embankments surrounding a small island that was home to 10,000 families, turning the land into a muddy hell.

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When Cyclone Aila struck in 2009, flooding breached more than 1,000 miles of river embankments and displaced about 100,000 people in the region.