Sentences with phrase «levees at»

The findings, described in the journal Science, present an important step toward designing robots that may one day be able to build research facilities in the deep ocean, buildings on Mars or even levees at a flood zone during an emergency — jobs that are far too hazardous or expensive for human workers to do.

«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.

Not exact matches

So what area of the country is most at risk for a levee failure?

The farm is located on a plot at the end of a cul - de-sac in the shadow of the Trinity River levee.

After Katrina, federal levees were built that stopped at the town of Braithwaite.

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.

Free secure bicycle parking is available on Miller Ave. at Yorktown Dr. just 1/2 block north of the levee.

«That Republican wave that's said to be sweeping the country runs into a levee — a dam, a blockade, whatever figure of speech you like — at the New York border probably because of Carl Paladino's foot - in - mouth disease.

«That Republican wave that's said to be sweeping the country runs into a levee — a dam, a blockade, whatever figure of speech you like — at the New York border probably because of Carl Paladino's foot - in - mouth disease,» Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll said in a statement announcing the results.

«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.

At 2:00 PM CDT (1900 UTC), New Orleans officials confirmed a breach of the 17th Street Canal levee.

«Our evidence suggests that the first levees were built to be about 6 - 7 feet high, but within a decade the one at Anshang was doubled in height and width,» Kidder said.

Where the canals empty at Lake Pontchartrain, they've added massive new pump stations that send water to Lake Pontchartrain if it starts to get too high on the levees in the canals.

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.

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.

«Finally, we are developing hybrid coastal structure concepts that involve covering a traditional storm protection hard structure like a levee, dike, or T - Wall with a sand dune cover to harness the benefits of both systems and provide aesthetic coastal systems at the same time that can function as regular dunes.»

The director has had a longtime home for his non-fiction work — like «When The Levees Broke» and «4 Little Girls» — at HBO, and that's just one of the reasons that «Da Brick» seemed like a no - brainer.

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.

The third collaboration between Morrison and acclaimed guitarist / composer Bill Frisell, the film chronicles the most destructive river flood in US history, which saw nearly 150 breaks in the Mississippi's levees, flooding of 27,000 square miles, the deaths of 250 people in seven states, and damages estimated at over $ 400 million.

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

If you want to avoid fuel surcharges at all costs, you may want to find another travel program (such as United Airlines) that never levees a fuel surcharge.

In this episode, I interview a client of ours at The Pet Hospitals at Houston Levee in Cordova, TN.

Playing ball going up and down the levee, visiting at Hillside to see the animals and kids, lots of doggy play dates.

«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.

The first landscape hotel in Europe is situated in the farmyard of Burtigarden farm at Alstad in Valldal, on a steep, natural levee in between birch, osp, pine and age - old boulders.

The 151 room Hampton Inn Cincinnati Riverfront is located at 200 Crescent Avenue, Covington, Kentucky in the heart of the business and leisure center of historic Covington; just minutes from Paul Brown Stadium, Newport on the Levee, Downtown Cincinnati, The Northern Kentucky Convention Center, and many other attractions and destinations.

Gathering his impressions of the river and its surroundings at varying times of the day and in different seasons, he would return to his studio and combine his observations to create his ultimate compositions, Levees and Dikes (Green River turn) being a prime example.

LuminArte Gallery is located at 1727 E. Levee Street, Dallas, Texas 75207.

The straight line that bisects the image is the top edge of a section of levee, shot from below, at the edge of the Mississippi River.

The video Levee is a quiet meditation on the landscape set at sunrise in Friars Point, Mississippi.

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.

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.

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.

He was an author of a 2011 paper containing the map at right, showing areas where surface erosion, compaction of soil or subsidence lowered levee elevations in ways that raise risks in such floods.

There's a point at which you have to be accountable for the decisions you make... if you choose to live in a floodplain, great... if you choose to live within a system of levees you believe are suspect because of government incompetence, great... please don't expect my tax dollars to further subsidize the consequences of your decisions.

I got some sobering input on the threat of major levee failures along an area called the Middle Mississippi Region (a 200 - mile stretch roughly between Saint Louis, Mo., and Cairo, Ill.) from Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geology at the University of California, Davis, who has extensively studied flood risks there.

The current forecasts call for large levee systems like Grand Tower and Degognia and others... to be at overtopping levels.

Eventually, relief came, from the river's perspective at least, when it broke through the Monarch Levee and flooded the Gumbo Bottoms in what is now known as the Chesterfield Valley.

The green building elements will reduce upkeep costs by at least 75 percent, Mr. Pitt said, and reduce some of the problems that devastated the Lower Ninth Ward during Katrina, when multiple levee breaks forced thousands of people from their homes.

Eligible activities under the Mid-South module include: 1) removal of rice straw from the field after harvest, 2) early drainage at the end of the growing season, 3) intermittent flooding during the growing season, and 4) increased water and / or energy use efficiency, achieved through measures including but not limited to: convert contour levees to precision or zero grade; use of side inlet / poly piping systems; use of more efficient diesel pumps; switch from diesel to electric pumps; use of soil moisture sensors to tailor flood to water needs.

Not that levees weren't needed, but knowing what we know now, we probably would have done things differently so that the wetlands would be replenished with the dirt from the Mississippi, so that Louisiana's land area wouldn't be disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of acres every year.

Cities could build flood defenses such as levees, pumps, and movable barriers, $» but at a cost of tens of billions of dollars per year.

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.»

By explaining to voters what is at stake, for example, he was able to win public support for financing a program of levee improvements through tax increases.

If you live in an area prone to flooding (i.e. you own a sump pump or use the word «levee» frequently), we suggest you check out your community's flood map and seriously consider getting flood insurance if you're in an at - risk area.

However, even if it's not required, it's typically a good idea to consider flood insurance unless your home is far from any dams or levees and at a higher elevation than most of the surrounding area.

At the same time, work to rebuild and strengthen the levee slowed after the Army Corps of Engineers completed patching broken structures and the project to strengthen the levee beyond pre-Katrina level ran short on funds.