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levees <a levee; levees> N

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levee VB

levee <a levee; levees> N ARCHIT

levee VB

levee

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No one is yet aware that the levees have been breached.
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This area of civil engineering is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals, and levees, and to both sanitary and environmental engineering.
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To allow drainage, backhoes mounted on marsh buggies and draglines mounted on barges cut breaches in some other levees.
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They were involved in moving sand bags to block up the broken levees.
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Levees can be mainly found along the sea, where dunes are not strong enough, along rivers for protection against high-floods, along lakes or along polders.
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Beginning in the 19th century, naturally occurring levees were reinforced for permanency, to protect farmlands from regular flooding.
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Protect involves building sea walls and levees to prevent damage from storm surges and sea level rise.
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An upgrade of the canal levees, floodwalls, and bridges began in 1999.
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A collection of these channels and levees along with overbank sediments form a channel-levee complex.
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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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