Sentences with phrase «levees in»

Few could have predicted that the levees in New Orleans would break and leave nearly 80 percent of the city, Saint Bernards parish, and other neighboring parishes submerged in water for weeks.

Geotechnical conditions and design flaws both contributed to the failure of the levees in New Orleans.

The data also may be used to update estimates of future hurricane risk developed by the Army Corps of Engineers and used to design levees in New Orleans.

The Category 1 hurricane was expected to dump up to 15 inches of rain, threatening flooding that could breach levees in the heavily populated Rio Grande valley.

That hasn't stopped local officials from building up levees in response to more severe floods.

The researchers note that, historically, the design of Southeast Louisiana's hurricane flood risk reduction system has hinged on raising and adding levees in response to river or hurricane events that impact the region.

Higher levees in some areas make flooding worse in other areas, and development continues behind all the berms

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.

That new approach could include strategies such as removing or setting back levees in some locations to promote seasonal flooding, strengthening regulations to reduce the discharge of contaminants into waterways, reworking the operations of some dams to facilitate fish passage, and changing federal and state laws to move conservation efforts to a broad, ecosystem - based approach.

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.

Hurricane Katrina breached levees in New Orleans, Louisiana, in August 2005.

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

The newly upgraded levees in St. Bernard Parish, built after Katrina, worked and stopped flooding there and in New Orleans.

For example, almost 12,000 acres of farmland flooded due to a breach in the Jones Tract levee in 2004,36 costing nearly $ 90 million to repair.

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.

Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans breached as Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subsequently flooding 80 % of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks.

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

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.

As far - fetched as this is going to sound, the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward, where more damage was caused and lives lost than anywhere else, that levee was built to fail.

Not exact matches

In the United States, those systems, the backbones of our highways, bridges, levees, power grids and pipelines are crumbling.

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.

The Riverfront Levee exhibit will be a 5 - block scale model of what the downtown St. Louis Mississippi riverfront looked like in 1852.

In a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridgeIn a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridgein worse condition than bridges.

Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

In the imaginary 100,000 - year history of hurricanes that R.M.S. had in its computers, no hypothetical storm that struck so far from New Orleans had ever caused the levees to faiIn the imaginary 100,000 - year history of hurricanes that R.M.S. had in its computers, no hypothetical storm that struck so far from New Orleans had ever caused the levees to faiin its computers, no hypothetical storm that struck so far from New Orleans had ever caused the levees to fail.

All over the country we've heard about infrastructure rotting away — bridges collapsing in Minnesota, roads in disrepair, levees breaking.

When I left for Houston in 2005, I did not understand the nuances of the levees or the damage that could be a result of the hurricane.

In New Orleans to this day, you can see the impact of the 2005 levee failure, damaged homes and empty lots where homes once stood.

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.

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

Not sure your comments are correct, but you may not have been aware of these levees that are in place that didn't exist before.

A Dixieland band («straight from the levee,» confided the announcer) tootled away as a slim, sexy blonde songstress snapped her fingers in rhythm.

Alan Duncan turned up in full Privy Council levee, including bringing the ostrich feather adorned hat.

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 city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

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 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.

«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.

He called for the building of levees or other barriers to counter the threat of storm flooding as sea level rises; in New York Harbor the water is about a foot higher than it was a century ago.

People think because they've never seen a storm like what happened in New Jersey or they've never seen the tunnels flooded in New York City that it can't happen, or that they need to think about building a levee.

After a massive flood displaced hundreds of thousands of people in 1927, the U.S. government built the current system of spillways and levees.

The increasing fragility of the aging levee system, and more people building in low - lying areas susceptible to flooding.

For Walt Disney World (now the Magic Kingdom ®), which opened in 1971, the company built dozens of canals and levees and drained an entire lake.

Olson says Dogtooth Bend farmers and landowners, members and staff of the Len Small Levee and Drainage District, community and state - level leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have some difficult decisions ahead in repairing the current landscape and preparing for future flood events — decisions that affect future land uses, resource allocations, and the livelihoods of the people of southern Illinois.

Previous studies had reported more than $ 50 million in levee repair costs as well as damage solely from the rapid flow of water across the floodway after the detonations, which scoured farmland and left behind thick deposits of unwanted sand.

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.

The new research found that allowing those levees to overtop naturally would have resulted in less erosion.

Failure to build strong enough levees — and fix known flaws in them — was blamed for catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people and caused more than $ 81 billion in damage.