Sentences with phrase «on levee»

Right now he's out on a levee somewhere in the heat painting the Sacramento River Delta near his home.

Of particular interest is a new video that builds on the scenic work Walker did for Lincoln Center's recent production On the Levee, a drama about the worst river flood, pre-Katrina, in U.S. history.

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.

His Off - Broadway credits include TWELFTH NIGHT, CYMBELINE, FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (Lortel Award for Best Supporting Actor), THE TEMPEST (The Public); Julie Taymor's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT»S DREAM and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (TFANA); ON THE LEVEE (Lincoln Center); MOTHER COURAGE (CSC); DISPATCHES FROM (A) MENDED AMERICA, WIDOWERS» HOUSES, (Epic Theatre Ensemble).

Out of its now 27 restaurants, the founders still only operate their first two locations — Court Street and Newport on the Levee.

Olson says the increase in Mississippi River peak flow placed additional river pressure on levees and led to increased flooding, especially during the floods of 1927, 1937, 2011, and 2015 - 2016.

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.

[Response: Roger — I would presume that PDI is a statistically far more stable measure than actual destruction, which varies wildly according to the vagaries of the actual track, and other circumstances... had someone spent a bit more money on levees, Katrina's actual damage would have been far less.

Will your city or town, in the future, be somewhat like New Orleans is today, i.e., dependent on levees and such to stay dry?

They say that enviros are to blame because they blocked improvements on levees.

Mankind caused the disaster in New Orleans, but as a result of not keeping up the maintenance on the levees.

The U.S. spends billions on levees, but river flooding still causes havoc across the country.

Not exact matches

Levee focuses on the U.S., but Sabillo says the company has Canadian users and could eventually work with tax professionals abroad.

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

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

I took her to the old Roman Catholic Cathedral on the Mississippi River levee, where we attended a Roman Catholic — Lutheran worship service commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession.

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

For years, a combination of levees on the Mississippi, land subsidence, the extension of a vast network...

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.

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

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.

Washington can't, therefore, build every levee and shore up every dam — or prepare for every impact on health, ecosystems, agriculture and other areas.

«On the other hand, if the barriers are not far enough from the river, they may trap wildlife escaping from floods, and may even act as levees, which tend to increase downstream flooding.»

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.

The hillside grooves on Mars, called linear gullies, show relatively constant width — up to a few yards, or meters, across — with raised banks or levees along the sides.

«It is also complementary to our current removal tool, in which we drive on roads and levees to capture moving pythons.

The story of how that happened is a tale of levees, oil wells and canals leading to destruction on a scale almost too big to comprehend — and perhaps too late to rebuild.

The 50 - year, $ 50 billion Master Plan for the Coast (in 2012 dollars) includes projects to build levees, pump sediment into sinking areas, and build massive diversions on the river to reconnect it with the dying delta.

All of them contribute, he said, and an exclusive focus on any one dimension, whether it's levees that are too high or the effects of global warming, «doesn't give people accurate answers.»

And yet we seem to insist on building levees and thinking that developing in these low - lying areas is OK.

«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.

«This study clearly shows that the man - built west bank levees on the lower Mississippi River enhance the capture of storm surge by the river,» Westerink said.

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.

In the Mississippi River system, however, a series of dams on various upstream tributaries have reduced sediment supply to the delta, while levees on the lower part of the river have artificially channelized the flow, forcing sediments to be deposited beyond the delta in the deeper Gulf of Mexico.

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.

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.

deposit that forms when a stream breaks its natural or artificial levees and deposits sediment on a flood plain.

They can transport meter - sized rocks, and have been found to exhibit side «levees» which are very similar in size to the ones observed on the side of Mars's gullies.

Also known as the Levee - Top Trail — because it's literally on top of the city's levees — this 60 - mile system of multi-use, car - free trails runs along both banks of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana.

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

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.

Only gradually did I understand that the Bathtub is offshore from New Orleans, isolated by levees, existing self - contained on its own terms.

He was on the frontlines of NPR's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, arriving in New Orleans before the storm hit and filing on the chaos and flooding that hit the city as the levees broke.

A great mind map for revision or in class use on waterfalls, gorges, floodplains, levees, meanders and oxbow lakes and even a case study on the River Eden.

On the last day of their trip, they had an opportunity to travel to the Lower Ninth Ward and see the levees.

On Aug. 29, 2005, the levees broke in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, causing more than $ 100 billion in damage and almost 2,000 deaths.

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.

The only sounds are those of distant construction — work continues on higher levees here and all over town — and chained - up dogs barking.

On the north side, by the infamous levee, University of Colorado students have built a viewing platform looking out on the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, the marsh that once afforded this area storm protection and perhaps will again if wetland - restoration efforts succeeOn the north side, by the infamous levee, University of Colorado students have built a viewing platform looking out on the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, the marsh that once afforded this area storm protection and perhaps will again if wetland - restoration efforts succeeon the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, the marsh that once afforded this area storm protection and perhaps will again if wetland - restoration efforts succeed.

Don't: Cathay Pacific no longer levees fuel surcharges on its own flights, but they do collect on most partner flights.