levee

Levees have changed that. Until Katrina, the Mississippi had not flooded in or around the city in almost 80 years.

But the hastily built levees will still have to hold up against the ice-laden water that's expected to remain high for at least a week.

Then, in the last years of the eighteen hundreds, several area levees broke under suspicious conditions.

The state fears at least 20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

At least 200 homes have been evacuated in the southern part of the state as water poured through bridges and levees.

On the list of infrastructure that was drawn up in 2000, at the top of the priority was New Orleans levees.

So far, about 240 people who fled when levees broke and destroyed their homes have been able to return.

Federal officials briefed the president on efforts to shore-up levees along the Mississippi River and help those displaced by the flooding.

As lava moves through a channel, overflows build natural levees along the sides, which can eventually connect and harden, forming a canopy.

Authorities are keeping a close eye on levees where volunteers have been adding thousands upon thousands of sandbags to shore them up.

Ahead of the deluge, some intrepid homeowners tried to save their houses by building makeshift earthen levees.

But these words do not: flood, drought, hurricane, rising sea levels, bursting levees.

It has already broken through a number of levees across Missouri.

The continent, the levees are the three towers, shadow into a lake, the so-called "three" also.

But experts say the situation would have been far worse if not for the levees, spillways and other flood controls built along the river.

Tractors are tilling the land and building earthen rows that will serve as levees once water flows into these fields.

The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.

The president was in Europe when heavy rains began forcing rivers over their banks and levees.

Some of these levees are higher and longer than the Great Wall of China.

That, the girls eventually the collapse of the Levees Broke, she thought: Perhaps, they had no future!

The sides of the flow can also cool faster than the center, leading to the formation of wall-like structures known as flow levees.

Levees in New Orleans are expected to hold, though the storm's surge could still flood the city as water over tops levees.

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters after the Indus River smashed through levees.

When a typhoon attacks, evacuating gates must be closed in time to secure the lives and properties inside the levees .

The state fears at least20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

The mighty Mississippi River broke through or flowed over the tops of dirt levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

Levees hold back the river and giant pumps are used to move water from the city into the river.

Next year the US army corp of engineers will hand over operation of a rebuilt system of levees, walls and flood gates.

Right now officials fear dozens more levees along the Mississippi River may overflow.

Opening a channel, the Morganza spillway, is meant to relieve pressure on the levees protecting the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

At least 22 levees in the three flood-stricken states have already been topped by flood waters this week.

This image was taken shortly after high waters breached New Orleans' levees and flooded the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

levees are needed in floodplains , where soils tend to be wet and can change every 100 yards along a proposed route.

There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood waters.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours. . .

Ongoing efforts toinvestigate and repair the levees have been met with opposition from localofficials, who question the Corps' analysis.

Second, flood control levees , and dikes built along rivers alter and destroy aquatic habitats.

Unlike New Orleans, the levees of the global economy have broken, one after another.

Bridges, highways, dams, levees, tunnels, airports, canals, and other large structures are rooted in the knowledge of this field.

STEVE EMBER: Age or heavy rains often caused the levees to break.

Most of the storm's casualties occurred in southeast Louisiana, where flooding washed away many of the levees protecting the area.

To defend Shanghai, engineers have stretched hundreds of miles of levees along its rivers.

Levees protecting the delta at the mouth of the river are in bad shape, too.

The pressure on dams and levies (levees) is very strong. Aid official afraid the extra flooding will come (occur) as dams will break.

Obama promised he would strengthen the levees so that they can withstand strong hurricanes if he is elected president.

Farmers who can afford it are building up levees to protect their land from future floods.

Even before the levees broke the schools were struggling, as the city was.

Picture New Orleans when the levees overtopped; now picture the flooding going global.

After 2003 the Army Corps of Engineers sharply slowed its flood-control work, including work on sinking levees.

Even without an earthquake the levees are increasingly vulnerable because of the continued subsidence and sea level rise.

It also mimics the natural flows that used to occur many years ago when the levees were not here.

We've seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail.

Levees normally hold back the water, preventing floods.

Splays are commonly formed by currents from crevasses in levees.

Many hydraulic structures including levees were destroyed during Tang shan quake in 1976.

The Coast Guard says barge traffic could put an increased strain on levees.

Congress has ordered the Corps of Engineers to build New Orleans's levees to a 1: 100 probability of flooding.

Wave overtopping risk was analyzed to get an overtopping probability of coastal levees in Shanghai.

Authorities are keeping a close eye on levees.

I've been on the levees, I've seen these good folks working.

In this method of recharge, water is impounded in a series of basins formed by low levees.

The lowest of those levees were built to withstand a one-in-1, 000-year tidal surge.

Unless we mitigate climate change, we cannot lessen future hurricanes, but we can design and manage better levees.

High waters broke 100-meter (300-foot) holes in levees, inundating nearby villages.

Many of the aging levees are at risk of failure.

Don't be surprised when the levees break again south of you, because they will.

Rain is so fearful, but not causes itself. It causes it can make thunder not shout, and can make levees burst.

Application of New Technology Architecture and Material in Basement Treatment of the Main Levees of the Yangtze River in Hubei

Study of Quality Inspection and Assessment Method of Built-in Works on the Main Levees of the Yangtze River

floods that intensified the force with which the river batteredagainst the weakening levees

Isotopic Tracer Technique Applied in Seepage Inspection of Levees Around the Hongze Lake

The storm also breached levees protecting New Orleans causing extensive and damaging flooding of the city. (See related article. )

Combined Flood Forecast and Operation of Reservoirs and Levees in the Middle and Down Stream of Beijiang Basin

Application of Hydraulic Cutting Machine in Continuous-wall Formation for the Strengthening of Levees and Danger Reservoirs

Application of Construction Technologies of Vertical Impermeable Wall to Reconstruction of Yangtze River Levees

Quality Management of Major Built-in Works on the Main Levees along the Yangtze River

Comprehensive Economic Evaluation on Basic AHP for the Project of Reinforcing Levees at Huanggang Reach

Economic Evaluation of Flood Control with Reinforcing Levees at Huanggang Reach of the Yangtze River

Application of Cement Concrete Mixing Pile Infiltration Prevention Technology to the Yellow River's Levees

Engineering Construction of Flood Control, Ecological and Picturesque Levees

Research on Design Standard of Deep, Concrete-mix Seepage-Prevented Walls on the Levees of the Yangtze River

How Built-in Works Construction on the Main Levees Affects Internal Demand and Economy Expansion

Build Grand Levees for the Safety of People--Reinforcement of Levees along the Yangtze River in Jiangxi

Discussion of the Calculation of Pressed Seepage Thickness of Double Layer Levees

Development and Research of Technology of Horizontal Drainage from Downstream Slope Toe of Levees

The formation of large mud-waves on the levees of Toyama Deep-sea Channel in the Sea of Japan

Discussion on Application of Vibration Form-sinking Wall to Seepage Control of Levees in Haihe River Basin

Empirical formulas for important parameters of unsteady seepage of levees

Operation and effect of bank revetments of hidden works in major levees of the Yangtze River

Defect Detection of Levees by Frequency Domain Electro magnetic Sounding

Application of Cut-Off Walls with Cement Mixing Piles to Reinforcement of Yellow River Levees

Recent Progress of Test and Study on Non-damage Inspection of Seepage-prevented Walls on Levees

Risk analysis of hydrological failures of levees in external Qinhuai River

Dangerous situations in levees and treatment measures

Application of flow field fit method in detecting potential hazards of levees

Discussions on method of stability analysis of slope type levees protection

Unsteady groundwater flow in double strata media beneath the levees

Application of rich slurry grouting to reinforcement in levees and dams

Principle of earthquake resistance design of levees

Detection and reinforcement of hidden defaults in levees and dams

Technique in planning construction of river levees

We all remember it keenly: water pouring through broken levees;

Do a Solid Work During Preparation Stage and Strengthen Our Long Levees

Comments on free - board of levees of flood control project in urban areas

Fast-repair of White Ant Chinks on Earth Levees and Grout for Leakage Control

Horizon Documentary Prize Spike Lee When the levees broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Effect of training levees on movement of water flow and sediment in Yellow River estuary

Safety monitoring on Changjiang's major Levees

Analysis of Cracks along Some Levees of Yellow River

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

before the levees start to crack