Sentences with phrase «made levees»

The researchers are aware that eliminating the human - made levees on the west bank might potentially endanger the few sparsely populated areas along the lower west bank of the Mississippi.

«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.

As an alternative, the study shows that the lowering of human - made levees along the Lower Plaquemines river section to their natural state, to allow storm surge to partially pass across the Mississippi River, will decrease storm surge upriver toward New Orleans.

Not exact matches

Before Katrina made landfall, the levees broke.

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.

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

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.

When this article was first posted, the first paragraph mistakenly described the new levees as made of cement.

Director Spike Lee made the documentary, «When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,» which aired on HBO in 2006.

But only after the catastrophic levee breaches — which made schools unusable even if most students had not fled the city — did it move to take over most of the schools.

The vote signifies the progress made in the 11 years since Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, when the Legislature took the vast majority of city schools away from the School Board to be run by the state.

Like the schools and bridges and levees they make possible, municipal bonds are built of strong stuff.

Airplane security, baggage checking, levee fortification, name it... people have to die in great masses before people wake up and spend the money to make the changes that need to be changed.

Nobody wants wells to run dry, villages to starve, storm clouds to gather or levees to break, but yet not everybody cares to clean up the mess we've made, much less recognize that we've made a mess, and ensure that our kids inherit a world that is a testament to your munificence.

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.

Third, the wishful thinking that «presumably the levees would hold this time» also represents very little understanding of both how seriously flawed the levee protection «plan» (I'm being kind) was before Katrina and also how few real improvements have been made in the three years since then.

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.

But, Katrina's high waters just made it over the levee, and the difference between «just over» and «not quite over» proved to be a lot of billions of dollars and human disruption.

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.

I think the levee issue touches on some of the points that Rodger Pielke Jr has brought up on the use of science in policy - making.

The city of Dallas and the Trinity River Watershed Management Department are constantly working on making improvements to the city's levees and to flood control in particularly high - risk areas.