levees in A Sentence

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    The Levees broke in more than 50 places.

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    Levee or blast wall against explosions or small-arms.

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    We are not trying to fix the Levees so we can build homes,” he said.

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    Natural levee, dead arms of the river and sand bars the name physical features along theGanga river.

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    Either people will slowly move away from the water's edge, or they will build Levees or dykes.

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    Levees can also be overtopped, or even fail during large floods, creating more damage than if the levee wasn't there.

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    That's because much of our economic success as a nation depends on our collectively ability to keep'the bull' between the Levees.

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    Contact community officials to find out if they are planning to construct barriers(Levees, beams, floodwalls) to stop floodwater from entering the homes in your area.

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    Contact community officials to find out if they are planning to construct barriers(Levees, beams, flood walls) to stop floodwater from entering the homes in your area.

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    So to keep the cities of the Delta safe, the government built a whole other system of Levees, gates, and pumps to keep that stormwater out.

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    A government report in 1852 pitched the construction of Levees to contain the river, even though some people thought even then that Levees would make floods rarer but all the worse when they happened.

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    Disappearance was both symbolic and very real when that category 3 hurricane failed to veer away from the magical city, crashed the Levees and inundated the low-lying areas populated overwhelmingly by the city's African Americans.

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    New Orleans deployed Levees and canals, state-of-the-art hydrogeological defenses that contained the river, forcing it ever higher and narrower and cutting off the supply of silt that once rebuilt the delta as the sea eroded it.

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    In New Orleans, for example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created a Standard Project Hurricane in 1957 that defined the wind speeds and storm surges that the Levees built around the city would have to withstand.

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    In order to complete the goals of Flood Control Act of 1928, approximately $5 Billion in funds are needed for water infrastructure repair and replacements, including adding backwater storage, repairing Levees, stabilizing banks and repairs to the nation's aging system of locks and dams.

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