Sentences with word «levee»

A levee is a raised structure or embankment that is built along a river or coastline to prevent flooding. It works like a barrier, keeping the water from overflowing onto nearby areas. Full definition
There is a safe exit to a secure area of the roof — a feature that needs no explanation for longtime Lower Ninth Ward residents like Green, who lost both his mother and his three - year - old granddaughter in 20 - foot - high floodwaters after the Industrial Canal levee broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
The Corps of Engineers also later opened the Bonnet Carré and Morganza spillways in Louisiana to ease pressure on the New Orleans levee system.
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
In the shorter term, Werfel says swarm bots could be used for tasks like building levees out of sandbags.
She opened her namesake gallery in 2005 on Dragon Street and relocated to her current spot on Levee Street in 2015.
Mississippi River floodwaters deposited many tons of sand on farmland and roads in Dogtooth Bend peninsula when the Len Small levee breached in January of 2016.
«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.
When this article was first posted, the first paragraph mistakenly described the new levees as made of cement.
The study's findings support earlier work showing the erosion of flood plains caused by levee bursts, leaving scour holes and sand deposits.
It also suggests that the Chinese government's long - running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually made periodic flooding much worse, setting the stage for a catastrophic flood circa A.D. 14 - 17, which likely killed millions and triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.
Part of the damage has been a result of levees failing as they cope with water levels higher than anticipated.
The central unanticipated event during Katrina was the failures of levees along the major canals.
Recent studies have shown that the construction of levees for flood protection has led to extensive land loss.
A state - funded study of the Oregon Columbia River levee system highlights the growing need to strengthen local flood control systems.
Some major partner airlines that DO N'T levee surcharge include United, EVA Air, Singapore Airlines, and Copa Airlines.
You know things are getting bad when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (they of the infamous New Orleans levee design) start speaking up about the threat to human life posed by a dam - with statements that read: «The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,» and «If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.»
One is to continue to repair the Len small levee when needed.
«The St. Louis levees protected us from the 1993 flood, considered a 330 - year event,» he said.
David Oyelowo, who plays King in «Selma,» is in talks to co-produce and star in the film, described by Participant Media as «a sweeping love story and complex murder mystery,» set during the time of the 2005 hurricane that slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast and deluged the city of New Orleans after levees broke.
With so much attention being paid to deficits and budget planning, do we account for needed funds for damages ahead of time as disaster relief, or do we spend more money on infrastructure improvements like levees, higher seawalls, modernizing electric grids and wastewater treatment?
This is a rural area with narrow levee roads.
(He went even further and suggested that the extra water may have been the difference between levees being topped or not.)»
In fact, leaders of the regional levee authority have said the purpose of the lawsuit was to make the industry pay for the rebuilding plan, suggesting that state could trade immunity from future suits for bankrolling it.
Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that human - made canals limit the natural tidal inundation process in roughly 45 percent of the state's coastline, and disruptions from levees accounted for 15 percent.
«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 said.
On the other hand, the program doesn't account for noncertified levees at all.
This is a good start, but we need to do more: stop giving taxpayer protection, and indirectly encouraging development, to communities behind levees.
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.
In the Mississippi River system, however, a series of dams on various upstream tributaries have reduced sediment supply to the delta, while levees on the lower part of the river have artificially channelized the flow, forcing sediments to be deposited beyond the delta in the deeper Gulf of Mexico.
As Peak Oil hits (if it hasn't already in 2006, as per T. Boone Pickens), massive engineering works for adaptation, like moving cities, or rebuilding levees in central CA, will be a lot more expensive without petroleum...
Federal levees already existed to the south of Braithwaite.
«This reduces flooding risk, works with nature in that sediments can get to the delta from both the river and from hurricanes and thus build up the delta, and reduces levee construction costs by billions.»
«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.
But many residents here believe that these new levees caused all that extra water from the hurricane to funnel away from those protected areas and directly into Plaquemines Parish, which didn't flood like this during Hurricane Katrina.
Less than half the nearly 95 miles of border construction, including levees along the Rio Grande in Texas, would be for new barriers, with the rest for repair of existing segments.
And the Make It Right homes — the first of which was built on the very spot where the Industrial Canal levee breached on Aug. 29, 2005 — are designed to withstand the next hurricane.
Near here, a section of concrete levee gave way one August morning in 2005, sending the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina crashing into the neighborhood.
The increasing fragility of the aging levee system, and more people building in low - lying areas susceptible to flooding.
A boat crew from the U.S. Geological Survey measures the effects of levee detonations, meant to ease flood risk along the Mississippi River in 2011.
But any such plan would have to compete for money with other flood - protection projects, such as raising levees.
Look at the photo of the sloshing levee above and then ponder the low end of the projections of rising sea levels in last year's reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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