Sentences with word «floodwall»

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, heading up the project for the buried seawall, which includes building a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach, recently entered the design phase which is expected to take one year.

«The Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri farmers» and land owners» response to the additional volume and height of the Mississippi River from the diversion channel valley and the prevention of the Mississippi River floodwaters from flowing into the ancient Mississippi River valley and Big Swamp was to build floodwalls and levees,» Olson says.

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.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

Both erected floodwalls that are at least 2 meters tall and in some places as high as 3 meters.

It was not yet clear if the campus would be safe behind hastily constructed floodwalls and sandbags.

Storm water pouring over the concrete floodwalls in many places eroded away the soil on the other side that gave those structures their footing.

Meanwhile many of the pump stations installed to evacuate water from canals behind certain floodwalls were rendered useless, drowned by in the very water they were supposed to be siphoning away, according to a 2007 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) report aptly titled «What Went Wrong and Why.»

Other huge floodwall concepts — like building three barriers to protect New York's Jamaica Bay — were too expensive in the short term before 2040, according to the study.

There is a new floodwall now in place.

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.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a floodwall in 1991 in response to devastating floods along the Tug Fork River in 1977 and again in 1984.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed its feasibility phase last month, moving to the design phase for the projects, which includes building the seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach.

The $ 579 million project calls for constructing a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just completed the first of three phases to build the seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

The plan calls for a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul said, «I have seen firsthand during multiple visits to the communities along Lake Ontario the damage that has happened to roads, floodwalls and the public water infrastructure in these waterfront communities.

Governor Cuomo announced that a $ 30.32 million loan package for the Johnson City & Binghamton Sewage Treatment plant, for repairs, improvements and protection against future storms, including a floodwall around the plant.

The Republicans briefly lost their Senate majority in the 2008 elections when Barack Obama brought out a surge of young and urban voters, but they rebounded in the Obama - backlash election of 2010, just in time for redistricting, and a chance to build a floodwall against New York's rising Democratic tide.

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

After the 1915 flood, Cape Girardeau built a floodwall to protect the city.

It argues this is making it harder to protect the New Orleans area against flooding and will force the levee authority to build bigger levees and floodwalls.

Likewise, after the Great Flood of 1927, Cairo built a floodwall, strengthened levees, and created the Birds Point - New Madrid floodway.

After Hurricane Betsy battered New Orleans in September 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began to build a network of levees and floodwalls — also called I - walls — to protect the Big Easy and adjacent parishes (counties).

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a floodwall in 1991 in response to devastating floods along the Tug Fork River in 1977 and again in 1984.

As I watched TV reports showing wind - driven waters sloshing over the floodwalls in several spots around New Orleans today, from a hurricane whose highest surge missed the city, and as I read John Schwartz's sobering report from the Army Corps of Engineers war room, I couldn't help returning to a question that has dogged me since I wrote about the swamping of that storied city in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — which, like Gustav, was not even close to a worst - case storm.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a floodwall in 1991 in response to devastating floods along the Tug Fork River in 1977 and again in 1984.

For many financially devastated home owners what their life will look like a year from now hinges on a complex interplay of factors that are largely out of their control: how quickly the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes its studies of and repairs to the levees and floodwalls, the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes its revisions to area flood maps, and insurers start making claims payments in earnest.