levee

When a sand boil erupts, the best bet is to surround it with sandbags or to build up a mini ring levee around it.

But allow me to pause for a moment and throw another sandbag on the levee of those trying to resist this tide.

Right now we have to watch about the levee getting saturated and water trying to seep underneath of it.

Last week there was a meadow between us and he took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is creek between us.

The coal miners have been missing since Friday, when the rain-swollen Wen River burst through a levee and flooded at least two mine shafts .

The wall was built after the Des Moines River punched a 100-foot wide hole in a levee allowing water to pour into a portion of downtown.

At the beginning of the book, a farmer sees water flooding over a levee in Forestport.

That little levee will create a pool, and once it fills up, the weight of the water in the pool will help staunch the flow of the sand boil.

A levee near Gulfport, Illinois was not able to hold back the rising water of the Mississippi river.

The general principle of arranging the regulation structures is provided, along with the length and height of the guiding levee.

A sandbagged levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Katrina's torrential rains and a massive storm surge proved too much for the decades-old levee system in New Orleans.

In normal circumstances merely placing a layer of protective material on top of a levee in this way would not do much good.

Nevada officials say rodents may be responsible for a canal levee break that caused flooding in hundreds of homes on Saturday.

If the water flowing out of the ground is clear, that usually means the levee itself is not disintegrating, Grigg says.

Levee improvements are going on at the moment, but until they are finished New Orleans is vulnerable.

levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The stark earthen line separating Hamburg from the dark-colored flood water is probably a levee.

Workers are rushing to complete a makeshift levee by packing dirt on top of an old railroad bed.

Coastal stretches of south-east Louisiana, particularly areas outside levee protection, are the main concern.

It cannot be stressed enough: In the decades after the war, a kind of levee separated polite discourse from free-market economics.

Water is too crafty for that; it will seek the path of least resistance and start a boil elsewhere that could undermine the levee.

The formulas can easily by used to calculate the stability of levee and find out the risk of piping erosion.

If floodwaters are supposed to rise a few feet, you might be able to build a levee that's a few feet higher than that.

Levee building, river pollution control and water landscape development have become dominant management techniques for urban rivers.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers handed control of the levee over to city officials on July 12.

Engineers then typically dig out shallow trenches or pits along the path to obtain earth for the levee.

Never mind that many of the Chevys sold in Europe are a far cry from the ones Don McLean drove to the levee in "American Pie. "

The determination of probability distribution of seepage parameters is a basis of reliability analysis of levee seepage stability.

7A tree stands in a field during a torrential rainstorm near the Birds Point levee, near Wilson City, Missouri.

The proposed method is applied to several engineering practices of North River Levee, and some difficult engineering problems are solved.

The plan is to get rid of this levee on the Mississippi River, which will flood about 200 square miles of land in Missouri.

Even before the Hungary disaster, Baotou authorities had begun a program to reinforce the levee here.

Later the car was found burned beside the Mississippi River levee, with a charred corpse inside.

hummocky channel-levee complexes (turbidite fan) and capped by parallel to sub parallel hemipelagic drape complexes.

I got a woman who works on the levee.

But the city predicts a positive outcome for the neighborhood. And the Army Corps of Engineers is confident the levee will hold.

Kammeyer knows that if a significant amount of water breaches the levee, that would prevent him from planting his fields.

Emergency workers are hoping it will block floodwaters from a broken levee south of the town of Winfield.

In an emergency, you'll have to build a levee with the dirt beneath your feet.

The adjusted levee around Eastern Tai Lake is formed of cohesive hydraulic fills, which include lots of pebble-shaped clods.

The organization's product and service quality is the quality levee to protect organization's alive and development.

Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans broke open, flooding 80 percent of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks.

Accordingly, the State Department gave a specific instruction to ensure the safety of the Hongzehu Levee.

Application of Vertically Paving Plastic Technique in Seepage Control Treatment of Levee.

High-resolution seismic data from the upper Mahakam Fan shows a deepwater channel-levee system in detail.

As the water level rises, Kammeyer patrols the levee in an all-terrain vehicle.

Objective To clarify the influence on the prevalence of schistosomiasis after levee break by flood.

When anchored, this layer will provide a key layer of water impermeability, slowing erosion and increasing the levee's lifetime.

Research results could offer the base for reliability analysis of levee seepage stability.

Finally, if you've got sandbags left over, stack them on the levee walls to delay the intrusion of insistent waters.

Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers exploded a three-kilometer-wide hole along an earthen levee in Missouri.

The levee's route depends on property lines, topography and terrain.

Engineers are blowing up that levee in order to let water from the Ohio River flow into the Mississippi.

No matter how high the levee or how flexible the foundation, disaster experts say, nature bats last.

Quality Control and Quality check Measurement of Earth Filling of Levee.

The largest civil works project in American history is underway to build a fortified levee system.

They say there have been more than a half dozen levee breaches in Illinois in the past week or so.

Then one day I was in Memphis on other business, and after dinner at the Holiday Inn on the Levee, I went into the lounge.

Application of Vibratory Model Sinking Sheet Wall in Strengthening Project of Hutuohe Levee.

At first, the city of Vicksburg, which owns the railroad tracks, was not very supportive of building the levee.

Crews are rushing to build a four-foot-tall sandbag levee around an eastern Missouri community.

No one can predict what bridge, levee or water main will fail next.

Then one day I was in Memphis on other business, and after dinner at the Holiday Inn on Levee, I went into the lounge.

Many a little makes a mickle. Over time, a long levee of logs was thus formed.

If you can, cover the water-facing side of the levee with plastic tarps.

An index system for levee failure risk assessment was established based on the analysis of factors and modes of levee failure.

On a recent humid afternoon, Jack "Whitey" Knupp stood atop GrandTower's levee, surveying the Mississippi.

The emperor neglected his morning levee ever since.

Breaks in the city's levee system flooded 80 percent of the city with water.

If you're still on-site when the floods come, some maintenance can keep the levee strong.

She walks across a levee, blowing a whistle and waving her arms.

Risks caused by many uncertainty factors in levee engineering are cared about by people.

More than 1, 800 people died in the storm and as a result of the levee breaks in New Orleans.

A western cottonmouth didn't survive the trip across a levee road in Illinois.

Officials want to make sure the levee can hold back the additional water.

I am sure I can figure out soon how this levee was built and when it was built.

The Mississippi River broke through its levee system in 1993, destroying about 1m acres of crops and causing $20bn of damage.

A crack or breach in a dike or levee.

By late on August 29, some 12 hours after Katrina hit New Orleans, Broderick had received 17 reports of major flooding and levee breaches.

You can also bury the poly's edges in front of and on top of the levee, or use rocks as weights.

drove my chivy to the levee.

First, dig a 1- or 2-foot trench where the levee will go.

"So, at 57. 5 [feet], this is where we expect the water level to reach, " said Spivey. "If the levee system fails. "

"So up ahead there are some gulls doing some courtship behaviors on the levee which is definitely a bad sign, " Robinson-Nilsen says.

Most people in America don't understand the nature of your levee system.

Last year, from where I stood on the levee, one would have seen orderly fields proceeding all the way to the river on the horizon.

The pervious levee foundation Shijiao Lingzhou of Beijiang levee has been in dangerous situation for many years.

Look at that long levee of logs.

Therefore, it is of great significance to study the routing characteristics of flood caused by levee breach.

Plan as a Whole, Highlight the Main Point, Hurry up Preparation Work for Guaranteeing Levee Construction along the Yangtze River

Risk Analysis of Xinan Critical Section of the Great Beijiang Levee and Its Stabilization Measurement

The special geographic location of the Pearl River levee passing through Guangzhou city and its present situation are described;

Cause Analysis of Bank Caving and Landslide at the Great Beijiang Levee and its Control Measures

Research and Application of Automatic Monitoring Technology for Seepage of the Great Beijiang Levee

Preliminary Analysis on the Formation Mechanism of the Newly Discovered "Channel-Levee" Systems, Southwestern Okinawa Trough

Follow up Standard of Supervision, Serve for the Construction of Levee Reinforced Works along the Yangtze River

Anti-seepage treatment of dumped riprap levee foundation by borehole grouting in harnessing the main stream of the Haihe River

Application of Super-thin Concrete Cutoff Wall Construction with Water Jetting Method to the Great Beijiang Levee

With the river now just half a meter below the top of the levee, Kammeyer said his biggest concern is not what could spill over,

The optimized study of section pattern of the coastal levee on soft soil foundation with FEM

Contributing Factor for Landslide of Chiding Section of the Jingfeng Levee and Its Treatment

Cause of Seepage Failure of Culvert Gate through Levee in Littoral Area and Measures to Its Control

Application of Super-thin Concrete Cutoff Wall to the Great Beijiang Levee Consolidation Project

Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singing this'll be the day that I die

Seepage prevention wall constructed with high pressure jetting for stage I separation levee and its cofferdam at TGP

A Brilliant Achievement, A Historical Stride--Report on Levee Construction along the Yangtze River in Hubei

Deepened Reform of Levee Construction System--Study on Levee Construction along the Yangtze River

The cause analysis of rain ruined levee in Weihe River and its countermeasures

Construction equipment allocation for high intensity backfilling construction of upstream separation levee of TGP

Application of Plastic Concrete Impermeable Wall Engineering Techniques in Yangtze River Main Levee Consolidation Work

Technology of Slipway Construction for Bank Protection with Form Bag Concrete in the Great Beijiang Levee

Application of a new square grid material in Hexing section of Yangtze trunk levee at Huangshi city

Application of Form Bag Concrete to the Great Beijiang Levee Consolidation Project

River Model Test on Influence of Pier Construction of Sanshui Second Bridge on Waterway and the Great Beijiang Levee

Application of Geofabriform Technology to the Great Beijiang Levee Reinforcement Project

Technical Comparison of Seepage-interception Walls with Levee Strengthening by Warping in Levee Reinforcement

Application of two new bank protection types to critical levee section in Liaoning province

Reinforcing Levee Body of the Great Beijiang Levee by Packing Grouting

Statistical method and application to the assessment for the construction quality of levee project

Finite element method for calculating the stability of levee foundation reinforced by geotechnical textiles

The application of low-level vacuum prepressing technique in sea-retaining levee construction reinforcement

Construction quality check and appraisal standard of thin seepage prevention wall of the Yangtze levee

Strengthening and construction monitoring of subgrade at intersection between expressway and the Yellow river levee

Planning for levee region water environment remediation and simulation of solute transport in groundwater

Formation mechanism and remedies for slope slide at the back of the flood control levee of the Sinan County

Environmental supervision characteristics and method of hidden project of important Yangtze levee

On soft foundation treatment method of breakwater guide levee for deep water channel in estuary area of the Yangtze river

Build First-class Works, Set up A Monument for High Quality--Report on Levee Construction and Management in Anhui

Theory of structure risk analysis for levee and its application

Design of Computer Supervisory Control System for the Reinforcement Project of Huizhou Levee

Application of Soft Foundation Reinforcement Technique in Drainage Sluice Project of Main Levee of Yangtse River

Preliminary probe into cutting-out range of seepage model for two-stratified foundation in levee engineering

Application of Several Techniques of Seepage Control Treatment in Strengthening Works of Huizhou Levee

Emergency Treating Measures for Foundation Pit Break of Drainage Sluice of Yangtze River Levee Section in Jiujiang City

Influence of trunk levee revetment construction of the Yangtze river on stable factors of bank slope

Application of Pump silting Strengthening Levee Technique in Levee Strengthening

Analysis on the Influence of the Underground Water Extraction in the Beach Area of the Yellow River on the Levee

Analysis of levee cracking during diaphragm wall construction using centrifuge model tests

Design and Construction of Seepage Control Walls with High-pressure Shotcrete in Outer-lake Levee on the West of Yingtan City

Preliminary experiment study on impact of vegetation protection system for levee against wave running-up

The Technical Research and Practice of the Construction of Sea Levee and Platform on Shoal Oil Fields

Study on generalized model of the semi- closed cutoff wall of multi-structure levee foundation

Study on Construction Quality For Deep-Mixed-Pile Wall Used in the Anti-Seepage of Levee

Application of Soil Material of Percent Moisture Content in Seepage Control Walls of Flush-grab Sleeve Wells in Levee Body

Discussion on Foundation Reinforcement Project of Dongjiang River Levee in Guangzhou

Application of piling by swirler under high pressure in qualification reinforcement design of levee

Reason of the Low Survival Rate of Wave Break Willow Forest in Levee of Hongze Lake

Environment Protection Design for Important Levee Works in Middle and Lower Reaches of Changjiang River

Construction technology of soft foundation river excavation and levee building

Application of river course critical levee section regulation technology

Experimental analysis of influences of tides on seepage through Nantong section of Yangtze River Levee

Study of River Levee Protection Structures

On Potential Danger of Levee Project and Engineering Geological Investigation

Research and applications of real-time monitoring technology for levee piping and seepage control

The mechanism of levee body crack emerged owning to the seepage prevention wall built on levee top and treatment

Measurement and research on influence of pipe thrusting construction on the Changjiang levee

Renovating Experiences and Promoting Effect of the Levee Construction in Wuhan

Application of analytical hierarchy process in the comprehensive safety assessment system of Yangtze River levee

Review and Thought on Levee Construction along the Yangtze River in Hubei

Standardization construction Management code of river and sea levee in Jiangsu province

Research of levee line layout of the urban flood protection levee and choice of sectional form

Study and Practice of the Scheme of Unclosed Levee and Overflow Weir Type Levee in Qiantang River

Earth-rock backfilling construction of upstream separation levee of TGP and quality control

Cause of Slope Crack in Xinan Section of the Great Beijiang Levee

Application of Landscape Ecology Principle in River Levee Construction

Design of mortar rubble masonry retaining wall of upstream separation levee of approach channel

Application of BP Neural Network Model on Predicting Sand Liquefaction of Levee Foundation

Application of Cement Injection Pile to Soft Foundation Treatment of Rongjiang River Levee

Types of Seepage Failure and Measures of Stabilization for Dangerous Release of Levee

Construction technology for deep channel section of upstream separation levee of TGP

Design and Construction of Reinforcing Hailing Levee by Fabric-form Protecting Slope

Discussion and thinking on management mechanism of building river levee in Tongxiang

Summary of Inspection Report on Levee Construction of the Yangtze River

Discussion on several related problems of the levee's safety assessment

Analysis on backfilling stability of high side slope at deep channel section of separation levee of TGP

To part Pingyuan line of Hong, draws back the field also lake the levee to adopt limits the high measure;

Analysis of separation levee of upstream navigation channel of TGP's temporary shiplock

Reason and Countermeasure of Levee Fissure in Construction of Concrete Cutoff Wall

Application of guniting pile in seepage-proof wall project in lower reaches levee of Huanghe River

A method simplified of hydraulic calculation for simulating levee breach

Discussion on issues concerning wave calculation in coastal levee design

Discussion about Analysis Method on Flood Prevention Effect of Levee Restoration

Geologic analysis and evaluation on dangerous reach of Yangtze levee at Yangxin county

Application of Minor Caliber Steel Pipe Pile to Levee Engineering in Shuangfeng County

Discussion on Flood Defence Scheme of Anqing City and Two-layer Levee Foundation Treatment

Application of Split Grouting Technology in Longchuanwan Section of the North River Grand Levee

Optimization of model of covering soil layer inside levee for Dongting Lake region by seepage FEM

The Application on the Thin Plastic Concrete Seepage prevention Wall in levee Project

Selection principle and method of plane coordinate system for Changjiang river levee

Application of Vibratory Model Sinking Sheet Wall in Seepage Control Project of Levee

Application of Dry Stone Pitching Revetment with Pointing Joint by Sluicing Sand in Levee

Management Practice of Pearl River Levee Passing through Guangzhou City

Levee foundation shear strength parameter analysis of Wuzhou flood dike

Research on Risk Factor Analysis and Risk Computation Model in Levee Engineering

Research on Geophysical Exploration Technique for Hidden Danger in Levee and Dam

Rumination of Bursting Dangerous Condition in Beijiang Levee

Termite Prevention Technique Applied in Chenghai River Levee

Monitoring on Outer Deformation of Separation Levee at Lower Approach Channel of TGP

Design and construction of pilot projects for levee-bank collapse treatment

Experimental study on harmless seepage piping in levee foundation

Research on Construction Scheme of Yangtze River Levee Revetment Works

Typical reinforcing and managing method of soft-soil bank of Changjiang River levee project

Application of Geologic Radar in Nondestructive Test of Hidden Dangers of Levee

Seepage Control Technique of Split Grouting for Earth Dam Body and Levee Foundation

Application of splitting grouting in Ligang Section of Yangtze River Levee

Analysis of soft soil levee base settlement of plain reservoir in littoral area in Tianjin

Application of alloy steel mesh gabion to shore protection of Zhangjiang levee

Application of Technique of Building Wall by Jetting in Stabilization Works for DangerousRelease of Levee

The Exploration the Levee's Design Improvement Method of the Bridge Ferry

Application of Unascertained Mathematics in Levee Safety Assessment

Evaluation of Levee Project Bidding for University Town of Guangzhou

Design for reconstruction of breached Yangtze levee at Jiujiang city

Probability design of river channel flood Protection levee

Application of Sand Piles to Levee Engineering of the Pearl River

Application of water jetting method in Meilin flood control levee works at Nanan city of Fujian province

Application of FEM to the Earth Levee Unsteady Seepage Computation in Luoding City

Mechanism of seepage failure in levee foundation and the protecting methods

Application of geophysical method in levee detection

Yearly repairing and management of urban channel levee project

Check Measurement and Control Technique of Dry Density of Earth Dam and Earth Levee

The levee's Present Situation And Later Construct of Hei Long Jiang cultivated Area

Risk analysis and computation of flood control capacity for river levee

Seepage Check Measurement and Seepage Control Strengthening of Hongzehu Levee

Simulation of Solute Movement in Groundwater in Closed Levee Areas

Stability calculation of levee slope of flood protection embankment at Anshunchang town

Discussions on leakage test technology and treatment of levee

On ecological bank protection in urban flood prevention levee

Key harnessing projects of downstream area of Huaihe River--Reinforcement of Hongzehu Lake levee

Overview of Levee Construction Technique with Fine Sands

Research on Flood Risk Information Management System of Beijiang River Levee

code of geological investigation for levee project

Discussion on the probing and monitoring of levee hidden hazards

Construction Technique for Reinforcing Work of Liuxihe Levee

Application of FS Slurry Geo - textile to Bank Revetment in Fushan Levee

Experimental study and analysis on piping of levee in Beijiang River

Theoretical analysis on piping development of levee foundation

Study on protection design of open levee of reclamation project

Discussion on Design of Building Coastal Levee by Blow-filling Sea Sand

Construction of Pile Foundation for Shatangjiang Levee and Sluice Project

Recent Evolvement of Riverway of Yangtse River's Main Levee in Yueyang

Wind velocity adopted in coastal levee project design

Survey supervision for Jiujiang Levee works

Risk Calculation model for flood levee structure

Application of remote monitoring system for gates in HeShanXiJiang levee

Application of concrete six square block on levee project

Study on standards of anti tidal storm for coastal levee projects

Risk analysis for seepage failure in Banqiao River left levee

Study on the Application for Plant in Salinization Pipe Levee Protection

Summary on the Appraisal Work of Levee Snags Probing