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An upgrade of the canal levees, floodwalls, and bridges began in 1999.
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Construction on the community is not planned to start until 2014 due to a poor economy, flood concerns and levee work.
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A collection of these channels and levees along with overbank sediments form a channel-levee complex.
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They are responsible primarily for maintaining the levee around the island.
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Viewed from the levee or the railroad tracks, the church steeples crown downtown.
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However, to use the prevailing winds, the runway transected the narrow dimension of the tract and ended at a flood levee.
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The levee along the river was also left open for public use.
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Levees and floodwalls should be viewed as a way to reduce risks from hurricanes and storm surges, not as measures that completely eliminate risk.
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These levees are formed by the overspilling and flow stripping of turbidity currents.
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In natural levees, once a breach has occurred, the gap in the levee will remain until it is again filled in by levee building processes.
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