Sentences with phrase «new levees»

Following that storm, new levees and improved internal drainage encouraged new development in low - lying areas, increasing the most exposed population by 170,000 households across the metropolitan area.

As others have noted, Katrina the Hurricane didn't have to give rise to Katrina the Human Disaster; scientists and engineers had given much advance warning about the need for new levees and better infrastructure.

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

Climate change, land subsidence and new levees and dams will change long - term flood exposure.

Criss published research in 2015 suggesting that the Army Corps of Engineers is underestimating flood levels in the Midwest by failing to fully incorporate changes like new levees, expanding development and heavier downpours.

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.

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.

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

You don't have to be an engineer to understand that even the new levee was built to fail.

Not exact matches

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 fail.

Shah turned on his BlackBerry and discovered that the New Orleans levees had broken: much of the city would soon be underwater.

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

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 walNew York City from what he fears is a new pattern of violent storms, possibly including construction of levees and sea walnew pattern of violent storms, possibly including construction of levees and sea walls.

New York City is the levee for statewide.

«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.

We've rebuilt the levees around New Orleans, for example, but they're right back on the same slabs.

An example is the «new New Orleans,» where parts of the city outside of the defended perimeter of the levee system can be expected to flood severely and frequentnew New Orleans,» where parts of the city outside of the defended perimeter of the levee system can be expected to flood severely and frequentNew Orleans,» where parts of the city outside of the defended perimeter of the levee system can be expected to flood severely and frequently.

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.

A new analysis suggests New York might deal with sea level rise and flood risk by a system of small levees and raising buildings unless climate change is worse than anticipanew analysis suggests New York might deal with sea level rise and flood risk by a system of small levees and raising buildings unless climate change is worse than anticipaNew York might deal with sea level rise and flood risk by a system of small levees and raising buildings unless climate change is worse than anticipated

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.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

This means investments in new and expanded reservoirs; levee repairs and flood protection; groundwater storage; desalination; and water reuse.

It would then take only one big storm surge to breach the seawall, just as hurricane Katrina sent floodwaters racing past New Orleans's levees.

With most roads closed, fleeing residents jammed an open highway in a frantic exodus reminiscent of the chaos on arteries leading out of New Orleans when the twin disasters of Katrina and the breached levees filled that city like a bathtub.

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

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

Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.

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.

In July 2013, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East, which maintains levees around New Orleans, filed suit against more than 90 oil, gas and pipeline companies.

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.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

The breaches in the levees around New Orleans have been repaired for a year now.

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.

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.

• We incorrectly stated that New Orleans was fortified by cement levees (4 September, p 6).

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 finNew 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 finnew structures and home foundations — and smaller barrier methods to keep out water, such as small levees, the policy study finds.

The researchers analyzed three main types of flooding controls — large storm - surge barriers of various types holding back water from New York Bay, building improvements only and a «hybrid approach» combining infrastructure improvements with small levees and beach fortifications.

The new metric may help engineers determine how the shape of a delta, such as the Mississippi's, may shift in response to engineered structures such as dams and levees, and environmental changes, such as hurricane activity and sea - level rise.

The tiny prefab shack 2014 cluttered with mounted fish, piles of antlers and a wolf pelt Keller bought in Alaska 2014 is wedged between a levee that holds back Missouri River floodwaters and a new oil well, topped by a blazing gas flare.

«Predicting the shape of river deltas: New method may help engineers determine coastal impact of dams and levees.»

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

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.

«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.