Sentences with phrase «rebuilding levees»

As rivers modify course, rebuilding levees will need to done.

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

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.

As for infrastructure, Mr. Larson was a strong backer of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, which should help rebuild the nation's ports, waterways, dams and levees.

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.

For a couple of examples, consider the New Orleans levees, which the Corps of Engineers rebuilt without reference to SLR.

To rebuild the entire levee system will require a large sum of money and some huge champions in Congress.

Or it might be fairly cheap to build levees around cities, move and rebuild other bit of civilization, ect.

Towns and neighborhoods that have fallen on hard times - whether from the closing of the local mine or manufacturing plant or the long decline of neglected neighborhoods on the wrong side of the tracks or perhaps, say, a broken levee - are turning to simple agricultural acts as a cornerstone for rebuilding communities.

With a continuous population growth and a need to constantly rebuild infrastructure and ensure good maintenance of bridges, road, levees, dams etc, civil engineers will always be in demand and the occupation will maintain a position in the top 10 jobs of the future.

At the same time, work to rebuild and strengthen the levee slowed after the Army Corps of Engineers completed patching broken structures and the project to strengthen the levee beyond pre-Katrina level ran short on funds.