Sentences with phrase «through levees»

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

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.

If you start digging a canal through the levee and into adjacent land to try and lower the lake, you're going to hit ice.

Mugatu eventually becomes important to the plot, but Ferrell proves to be as tiresome with his shenanigans as Stiller and Wilson are with theirs — in fact, all the actors try so hard to deliver anything of comedic value that the force of the combined flop sweat could crash through any levee anywhere.

Not exact matches

Short - sighted and commonly using a gold monocle, but very fond of hunting and often able to give the coup de grace to some (fairly) wild beast held by the huntsmen, monocle in one hand, sword in the other, he used to get through business at a kind of morning levee in his private rooms, leaving the rest of the day free for the hunt, the banquet, family affairs, and all the glorious social life.

The reason: the Mississippi now flows through a conduit roughly half the width of its channel that existed before most of the levees were built, which means more water passes faster through a narrower area.

My personal fear is that many of these levees are degraded in ways that may rear up suddenly as near - record flood levels roll through.

Eventually, relief came, from the river's perspective at least, when it broke through the Monarch Levee and flooded the Gumbo Bottoms in what is now known as the Chesterfield Valley.

Eligible activities under the Mid-South module include: 1) removal of rice straw from the field after harvest, 2) early drainage at the end of the growing season, 3) intermittent flooding during the growing season, and 4) increased water and / or energy use efficiency, achieved through measures including but not limited to: convert contour levees to precision or zero grade; use of side inlet / poly piping systems; use of more efficient diesel pumps; switch from diesel to electric pumps; use of soil moisture sensors to tailor flood to water needs.

«In recent years, Bush repeatedly sought to slice the Army Corps of Engineers» funding requests to improve the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain, which Katrina smashed through, flooding New Orleans.

After reading through the citation (s), I find no mention of levee breaching — just over-topping and concerns with the height of the levees.

The first time I went through it, I basically stopped near the top of page 2 where Bush is admonished for claiming nobody predicted the levees would breach.

Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from nearby aluminum processing plant broke through its containment reservoir — killing two, causing dozens of injuries, and creating an environmental disaster on a scale yet to be fully realized.According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred when a reservoir brimming with the toxic sludge, a byproduct from aluminum processing, overtook the levee designed to contain it, flooding two villages 100 miles southwest of Budapest.

By explaining to voters what is at stake, for example, he was able to win public support for financing a program of levee improvements through tax increases.