Sentences with phrase «levees protected»

«The St. Louis levees protected us from the 1993 flood, considered a 330 - year event,» he said.

Not exact matches

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

There are many more who would help if only they knew how hard Isaac hit those outside the new levees that protect New Orleans.

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.

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.

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 antiquated levee system protecting California's Sacramento Delta, which is the source of fresh water for 28 million of the state's residents, comes to mind.

The program deems that a certified levee will protect homes behind it from a 100 - year storm.

«Protecting and restoring the natural infrastructure of floodplains provides an important complement to built infrastructure like dams and levees.

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.

Over the last 50 years, the Army Corps of Engineers built some 350 miles of levees to protect New Orleans from hurricanes, a complex defense system that failed spectacularly when Katrina struck.

The southeast corner of the state is represented only by two fingers of land — the areas along the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche that currently are protected by levees.

That includes improving the pump stations to protect the levees, raising the height of the levees and dunes, adding in overflow protection and raising the homes they're protecting.

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.

In the near term before 2040, the most cost - effective way to protect New York likely is a more modest combination of building improvements — such as raising new structures and home foundations — and smaller barrier methods to keep out water, such as small levees, the policy study finds.

Less may mean more when it comes to the levee systems designed to protect New Orleans from hurricanes.

The border here spends much of its time on private land, well beyond the levee that protects the town from storm surges, upon which the border fence rests.

In Southeast Louisiana, many have struggled against the natural environment for a long time, building levees to protect us from the Mississippi River and the swamps, marshes, and estuaries that line the Gulf Coast.

In this politically polarized climate, this will seem to many like another unwanted federal «taking,» but why should my freedom extend to building a levee to protect my property that will increase the risk to your property downstream on that same river?

On the aspect of hurricanes and tropical storms and continuing weakness of the levees that protect low - lying coastal and riverine communities I forsee more wasted tax dollars (flood insurance payments) trying to postpone the inevitable: moving permanent structures to higher ground to get ahead of sea level rise.

What will it cost to try to protect these, with huge barriers, levees, locks to get ships through the levees, etc?

Traditional defensive approaches — such as building seawalls and levees, or replenishing sand along eroded beaches — can help protect against flooding and damage but may not provide adequate or sustainable long - term protection.

We influence the climate / environment in The Netherlands by building levees and pumping out marshes and protecting them from tidal and storm surges.

Should hurricane - driven floods top or break the protecting levees, the city would be inundated with seawater.»

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

In addition, the cost of conventional berms or levees to protect the shoreline also increases much faster than the height.

Thanks to this modest sea - level rise, and the possibility that developing countries will have the money in the future to protect their land with levees, he concludes, «a rich Bangladesh will lose only 0.000034 percent of its present dry - land area» (p. 48).

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

The estimated cost to upgrade the New Orleans levees to protect for cat.5 hurricand was $ 2.5 billion.It would have been well worth it.

The litigation mentioned did not stop levees that would have protected New Orleans.

This year's report highlights the sorry state of the nation's water infrastructure — our drinking water, waste water and storm water systems, and our dams and levees — and the need for green, 21st century investments to protect clean water, public health and safety, and the fish and wildlife that depend on healthy rivers.

Although your home might be outside the one - in - 100 year flood zone, or its floor height may be above the one - in - 100 year flood level or protected by a levee, there may still be a chance your home could be flooded.