Sentences with phrase «by levee»

Although your home might be outside the one - in - 100 year flood zone, or its floor height may be above the one - in - 100 year flood level or protected by a levee, there may still be a chance your home could be flooded.

Because of fears that San Diego Bay might silt up, the river was diverted to its present course north of Point Loma by a levee built in 1877.

The southeast corner of the state is represented only by two fingers of land — the areas along the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche that currently are protected by levees.

Only gradually did I understand that the Bathtub is offshore from New Orleans, isolated by levees, existing self - contained on its own terms.

«This restoration project at Muir Beach begins the critical recovery of a landscape that has been dramatically altered over the past 100 years by levees, parking lots, excessive recreational use, and manipulated dredging» said Frank Dean, acting superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

Not exact matches

And it's not just Medbery whose entrepreneurial ambitions have been nurtured by a city many people in the rest of country remember associate more with gumbo, jazz music, and failed levees.

Most of the damage was caused by storm surges that overwhelmed the levee system.

Short - sighted and commonly using a gold monocle, but very fond of hunting and often able to give the coup de grace to some (fairly) wild beast held by the huntsmen, monocle in one hand, sword in the other, he used to get through business at a kind of morning levee in his private rooms, leaving the rest of the day free for the hunt, the banquet, family affairs, and all the glorious social life.

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.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

A new analysis suggests New York might deal with sea level rise and flood risk by a system of small levees and raising buildings unless climate change is worse than anticipated

Sections are often set back from the river to form a wider channel, and flood valley basins are divided by multiple levees to prevent a single breach from flooding a large area.

A controversial decision in 2011 to blow up Mississippi River levees reduced the risk of flooding in a city upstream, lowering the height of the rain - swollen river just before it reached its peak, according to a newly published computer modeling analysis led by UC Irvine scientists.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

Nearly 70 percent of the roughly 30,000 miles of levees in the U.S. are not trusted by government flood officials to hold back floodwaters

Approximately one billion euro is planned for concrete walls and levees, etc., earmarked for investment by 2020.

Engineers may gauge a city's physical resilience by the strain a levee can bear.

By the beginning of the first millennium A.D., the levee system had been extended much farther up river, lining the banks for several hundred miles, he estimated.

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

Swollen by months of record rainfall across the watershed, the Mississippi broke through levees in 145 places, flooding the midsection of the country from Illinois to New Orleans.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

Kentucky farmers built the Hickman levee — strengthened later by USACE — and did not fail.

«We're not going to allow a single levee board that has been hijacked by a group of trial lawyers to determine flood protection, coastal restoration and economic repercussions for the entire State of Louisiana,» said Gov. Bobby Jindal in a news release demanding that the levee authority withdraw its suit.

With hundreds of businesses and homes destroyed by flooding for the second time in 2 years, the state government is considering enabling property owners to abandon some flood - prone areas, and is also calling for the construction of new levees and other protective infrastructure.

• We incorrectly stated that New Orleans was fortified by cement levees (4 September, p 6).

And in at least one of the levees that caused flooding, there were actually areas where the levee was intentionally built lower to the ground in order to protect the pump stations by relieving some of the water pressure.

Criss published research in 2015 suggesting that the Army Corps of Engineers is underestimating flood levels in the Midwest by failing to fully incorporate changes like new levees, expanding development and heavier downpours.

The tiny prefab shack 2014 cluttered with mounted fish, piles of antlers and a wolf pelt Keller bought in Alaska 2014 is wedged between a levee that holds back Missouri River floodwaters and a new oil well, topped by a blazing gas flare.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

«By eliminating the 55 kilometers of human - made levees on the west bank of the river from Pointe a la Hache and Venice, the surges propagating in the river from Pointe a la Hache past New Orleans will be lowered by up to two meters,» Westerink saiBy eliminating the 55 kilometers of human - made levees on the west bank of the river from Pointe a la Hache and Venice, the surges propagating in the river from Pointe a la Hache past New Orleans will be lowered by up to two meters,» Westerink saiby up to two meters,» Westerink said.

«This study clearly shows that the man - built west bank levees on the lower Mississippi River enhance the capture of storm surge by the river,» Westerink said.

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.

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.

I just thought the Academy would've extended an invitation with 2002's 25th Hour or at leasy by 2007, when he delivered the utterly beautiful score for When the Levees Broke, some of which was recycled in Inside Man and in countless other movie trailers and on television.

The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin — Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin» under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her dad at the edge of the world.

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.

The vote signifies the progress made in the 11 years since Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, when the Legislature took the vast majority of city schools away from the School Board to be run by the state.

On the north side, by the infamous levee, University of Colorado students have built a viewing platform looking out on the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, the marsh that once afforded this area storm protection and perhaps will again if wetland - restoration efforts succeed.

Climbing the levee by the river at the end of his last field, Bishop shows me the problem.

What's in a typical policy: Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.

Redwood Creek is currently constrained by a small bridge, the levee road, and the Muir Beach parking lot, which needs to be moved to connect it to its historic floodplain for better salmon habitat and sediment transportation.

You can extend the ride by heading north along the levee above Sharp Park Golf Course to Pacifica's historic pier.

Inspired by William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode 4 (The Countess's Morning Levee) 1743, this installation features a brightly coloured stage set with a cast of characters taken from Hogarth's morality tale.

New Orleans, which will mark its 300th anniversary in 2018, has thrived from its location where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, but is also battered by hurricanes and floods and breaking levees.

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.

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.

The Dutch, for example, are hedging their levee bets by building amphibious houses — really:

Most of the Middle Mississippi River levees are currently rated Unacceptable (like 44.5 % of rated levee miles nationwide); plus there are major geotechnical issue documented by our research — subsidence and compaction and un-permitted levee modifications using road gravel that is unsuited to flood control.