Translations for „levees“ in the Polish » English Dictionary

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Because of this, parts of the city have to be protected from flooding by a system of levees and water pumps.

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Building levees causes the river channel to silt up.

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No one is yet aware that the levees have been breached.

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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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Examinations have shown that high water never topped the floodwalls; the flooding was due to engineering failure of the levees and floodwalls.

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Most of the towns near the river are protected by levees, but outlying areas are vulnerable to flooding.

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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 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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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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These levees are formed by the overspilling and flow stripping of turbidity currents.

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