Sentences with phrase «levee construction»

Not exact matches

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to push protecting New York City from what he fears is a new pattern of violent storms, possibly including construction of levees and sea walls.

The area's porous geology prevents construction of levees, he said.

Others present what the area could look like with construction to protect against sea - level rise, like a sea wall or an eco-berm, a landscaped levee.

Recent studies have shown that the construction of levees for flood protection has led to extensive land loss.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

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.

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

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.

The only sounds are those of distant construction — work continues on higher levees here and all over town — and chained - up dogs barking.

HALF WAY between the levee and the Granite Construction gate, there is a dirt road that goes off to the east (right)

We should similarly file statements indicating the impact of real estate development; the construction of buildings, dams, and levees; and other major projects — on the increased vulnerability to hazards they will impose on others.

Experts decry the practice of building levees to shield new construction from risks because water displaced by such barriers must, thanks to gravity and hydrology, go somewhere else.

These are only partly natural phenomena and they have been made worse by settlement decisions, canal development, loss of barrier wetlands, extraction of groundwater, oil, and natural gas, internal rainfall storage, and the design, construction, and failure of protective structures and inside levees rainfall storage.

Since the 1953 flood, the Delta Committee has been responsible for the construction of protective dykes and levees to protect the country.

Assuming that some index of damage remains flat, it seems to me that if money was spent on better levees, better pumps, more resistent construction (rather than on something else) in part to ameliorate climatological impacts, if the index ignored those expenditures then that metric is not a good one.