Sentences with phrase «with levees»

Thanks to this modest sea - level rise, and the possibility that developing countries will have the money in the future to protect their land with levees, he concludes, «a rich Bangladesh will lose only 0.000034 percent of its present dry - land area» (p. 48).

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.

Not exact matches

The American Society of Civil Engineers rates our nation's 100,000 miles of levees with a grade of a D -.

And it's not just Medbery whose entrepreneurial ambitions have been nurtured by a city many people in the rest of country remember associate more with gumbo, jazz music, and failed levees.

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

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.

Moreover, a levee failure could allow saltwater to mix with the Delta's freshwater, increasing the salinity levels of water supplies and harming the local aquatic ecosystems.

Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

Any of these natural disasters could rupture the delta levees and take a lot of the infrastructure — power lines, communication networks, gas pipelines, hydroelectric power systems — with it.

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 anticipated

But any such plan would have to compete for money with other flood - protection projects, such as raising levees.

Part of the damage has been a result of levees failing as they cope with water levels higher than anticipated.

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.

Others present what the area could look like with construction to protect against sea - level rise, like a sea wall or an eco-berm, a landscaped levee.

While ancient levees may be difficult to spot with an untrained eye, geoarchaeologists employ an array of precise analytic tools to confirm a site's sedimentary history.

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.

Bedient says the state doesn't have time to wait for federal money, and that levees to hold surges back could be constructed with local funding.

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.

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 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.

«Finally, we are developing hybrid coastal structure concepts that involve covering a traditional storm protection hard structure like a levee, dike, or T - Wall with a sand dune cover to harness the benefits of both systems and provide aesthetic coastal systems at the same time that can function as regular dunes.»

The mud levees that Katrina washed away are now bolstered with stronger clays, while pump stations come with flood - proof safe houses so operators won't have to evacuate like they did in 2005.

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

Gulf Coast Swamped — Human engineering efforts such as levees have reduced the ability of the wetlands of Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states to keep pace with subsiding land and rising sea levels, according to coastal scientist Robert Twilley of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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.

The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin — Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin» under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her dad at the edge of the world.

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.

«In sharp contrast to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the electricity grid brought back online, the auctioning - off of New Orleans» school system took place with military speed and precision,» writes Naomi Klein in her landmark 2007 book The Shock Doctrine.

We did not do a good job educating students with special needs before Hurricane Katrina, and we did not do a good job in the early years after the levees broke.

Code 3 boats along with water - rescue certified personnel are staged each day in Fort Pierre to be used for human rescue as well as animal rescue if the levees do not hold.

This is a rural area with narrow levee roads.

Using video and sculpture, she plans to poetically compare the heritage of the south Louisiana Houma Indians with a folkloric French coastal city called Ys that disappeared beneath the ocean when a princess stole the magical key to the levee gate.

Inspired by William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode 4 (The Countess's Morning Levee) 1743, this installation features a brightly coloured stage set with a cast of characters taken from Hogarth's morality tale.

A Fashionable Marriage (1986) dramatises racial politics: «It is the countess's morning levee after she has slept with her lover, the lawyer.

Levee Stream Community Event with the Kitchen Sisters and Otabenga Jones and Associates 11AM - 5PM 2200 Bayou Road Free and Open to the Public

Today, we have more than 400 major federal dams and reservoirs in the United States, along with 500 miles of levees and dikes, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

For the U.S. and the world, Katrina was a surprise as the world saw the failure of complete evacuation, the collapse of the levees, the inadequate rescue operations, the subsequent outmigration, and the plight of those remaining in the city, with the burden falling heaviest on the African - American, poor, aged, and infirm members of the population.

These payments, along with federally funded levees and other flood control structures, have created a false sense of security in the face of risk.

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

If it comes close no one is taking a chance with staying because from what we have been told the levees are no better than they were 3 years ago.

Should hurricane - driven floods top or break the protecting levees, the city would be inundated with seawater.»

Put simply, traditional American energy is moving forward — with or without the President — and before long, the levee's going to break.

Not that levees weren't needed, but knowing what we know now, we probably would have done things differently so that the wetlands would be replenished with the dirt from the Mississippi, so that Louisiana's land area wouldn't be disappearing at the rate of tens of thousands of acres every year.

For example, rising sea level increases the likelihood that a storm surge will overtop a levee or damage other coastal infrastructure, such as coastal roads, sewage treatment plants, or gas lines — all with potentially large, expensive, and immediate consequences (Nordhaus, 2010).

You know things are getting bad when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (they of the infamous New Orleans levee design) start speaking up about the threat to human life posed by a dam - with statements that read: «The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,» and «If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.»

And according to every report I've read, many, if not all, of the levee issues with Katrina were not caused by over-topping.

This issue of the lawsuits stopping levees was started by the CEI in an article that brought up levees that where in no way connected with the destruction or protection of New Orleans and floodgates that were not stopped by environmental litigation.

So even a Cat 3 hurricane may have created the same failure results (I think there has been levee over-topping in New Orleans from lesser hurricanes which hit farther away, so I'm not sure how well it could really handle a Cat 3 or lesser storm with Katrina's path in the first place).

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