Satellite image and graphic showing the settlement between the berms.
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Trenches and earthen berms bisect many of Falluja's main arteries.
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His militia built berms along the border to prevent militants from sneaking back.
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Rivers already swollen well above their banks kept rising, and temporary berms collapsed.
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At General Arif's camp, the berms had grown taller and the foxholes deeper.
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And the current administration is looking to push out the berms a little bit, too.
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Three years ago, they had defiantly erased that line, knocking down berms marking the frontier.
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Since Wednesday morning, bulldozers have been constructing dirt berms at a location near the border.
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The berms shield the park from noise from the expressway and also anchor its landscape.
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Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Jordan has built hillocks of hard sand — berms – and encampments just on the other side of the berms have grown significantly in recent months, especially since airstrikes by Russia, the United States and others intensified inside Syria.
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Ala, using his scope, can regularly see his adversary hundreds of meters away behind sandy berms.
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We need to invest in better infrastructure: stronger bridges and abutments, better drainage, berms and levies.
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The berms and swales leading toward the woods rise and fall like breaths, yet everything feels still.
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I look at the berms of earth built up on either side to conceal cars from enemy view.
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The Kurds man positions beneath dirt berms at the base, located between two villages held by Islamic State.
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The association's plan, which could affect the berms in Brooklyn Bridge Park, would probably require additional state approvals.
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San Jacinto River and Rail said it spilled a "foamy emulsion" when floodwaters overtopped the berms around its facility.
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Sand berms were bulldozed to form a perimeter, and a panoply of defenses, including antiaircraft missiles, is at the ready.
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The stadium would also be designed to adapt as waters rise by using berms and sea walls to divert flooding.
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They fired another, this time unsuccessfully, at an Israeli armored personnel carrier that was only partially obscured by defensive berms.
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And there is one choice that is made up of shore-based measures involving berms, wetlands restoration and raised parks.
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The bus wound through earthen berms and collapsed buildings, then through a choke point that has changed hands several times.
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More than 30 people were evacuated from another area on tribal land where high water was close to overtopping berms.
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To add them, the headache is identifying a smooth, meandering path devoid of cracks or impassable berms of broken ice.
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ISIS has heavily fortified this area with road blocks and berms, and long ago rendered the airport runway unusable with trenches.
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Many of the people between the two berms are refugees trying to enter Jordan, already host to around a million Syrians.
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The roadway is 150 to 260 feet above sea level and buttressed by embankments, berms, rocks and other material, Caltrans said.
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The wind persisted on this February day, and tiny ridges of salt on the berms made finding one's footing a bit tricky.
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River Partners is removing berms along the riverfront that the owners formed from earth and rubble to keep the smallest floods out.
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There are also dozens of variants — pickets, corrugated panels, berms, X-shaped steel barriers, even planked walls placed along Gulf Coast beaches.
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A handful of Marines ran ammunition to machine guns and Javelin missile launchers scattered along the berms and wedged among the trucks.
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AT&T took the widespread flooding from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 into account as it rebuilt infrastructure, elevating equipment and adding berms.
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IS has had more than three years to fortify the city of some 160,000 people with booby-trapped tunnels, landmines and earth berms.
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Due to the curious geography of the region, life between the berms happens out of reach from the military, aid workers, and journalists.
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Long stretches of the path are shielded from traffic by berms planted with trees and shrubs, but vehicles have gotten onto it before.
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The team suggested the city should instead continue to make investments in relatively cheaper and quicker protections, such as temporary flood walls and berms.
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Flynn pointed out many of the homes along the path of a possible flood are built on berms or sit on relatively higher ground.
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The conditions may be a notch above destitute, but beyond the berms that surround the camp lies the very real prospect of being killed.
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Its leadership has reportedly buried large quantities of weapons and cash in tunnels and sand berms, to be unearthed in the years to come.
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In Washington, Mr. Thorson said the problem began after the tumbleweeds rolled down the 40-foot berms along the highway and onto the road.
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ISIS is fortifying positions in eastern Mosul, digging new trenches, building berms and erecting walls and barriers on major roads, witnesses and residents tell CNN.
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Within minutes of slicing through the defensive sand berms that ringed Falluja, the lightly-armored Bradley fighting vehicle I was in took some intense fire.
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He positioned the Israel Defense Forces soldiers, their jeeps, a sniper's bunker and sand berms used by soldiers on the Israeli side of the fence.
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The American commandos took cover, then ran behind dirt berms to fire anti-tank missiles and machine guns at the advancing column of armored vehicles.
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The target, which was being used to dig earth berms to fortify Islamic State positions, exploded into a blaze that sent white smoke into the sky.
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To address this risk, Chelsea's planning office has developed a $223 million flood-mitigation project with berms and other landscaping designed to keep floodwaters at bay.
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Residents told Reuters the Houthis are digging trenches, building defense berms and reinforcing their ranks with troops in Hodeidah and in other towns surrounding the city.
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Johnston said it was especially tricky to build a course where the jumps were shielded by berms and stands of trees to block the persistent gusts.
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As the Kurds settled into their positions, bulldozers came up to start making walls of sand outside some of the villages — berms against further car bomb attacks.
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OUTDOOR SPACE The house sits on a private 20.84-acre lot with grassy berms, trees and its own pond, and is reached by a winding gravel driveway.
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City authorities should also build more parks, bolster flood defenses and levies, and develop berms in flood-prone areas, said John Batten, an Arcadis director in Hong Kong.
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The council said that lagoons are usually built on the highest point of the farm and have high berms on each side to protect them from rising floodwaters.
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Measures ordered by the province included increasing the height of the perimeter berms, or raised banks, surrounding the leach pad where the gold is leached from the ore.
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Danger emanated not only from the sky but also from the concertina-wire-crowned berms and highway checkpoints ringing the town—areas under the control of Al Qaeda.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was gradually reducing the level of water behind the berms, aiming to return it to a safe level by Sunday night, Bynum said.
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More than a mile deep in some parts, the belt is bordered on its northern and southern edges by long earthen berms dug up by heavy-duty military bulldozers.
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READ: Humanitarian crisis looms Once the Peshmerga advanced past a series of berms that had separated them from the militants, a suicide car bomber hurtled toward the Kurdish fighters.
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The berms seemed like a brilliant idea days before the Olympics when high tides and some of the biggest waves in years hit Copacabana and washed across Avenida Atlântica.
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The only way to keep a higher, more turbulent Atlantic out of South Boston and Charlestown is to build parks, bike paths, gardens, and landscaped berms with waterfront views.
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Explaining the obstacles that led to the delay, Barazi said earth berms and concrete barricades need to be removed from the route to ensure the rebels reach their final destination.
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"The temporary flood protection systems have held to this point; however, there are no guarantees with temporary flood protection measures of earthen berms, Hesco flood barriers and levees," Buelow said.
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In Bradley Beach, Belmar and other beachfront towns in New Jersey, bulldozers and front-end loaders shoved sand away from the water to create temporary berms to fend off flooding.
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Most of the money in the state's sanitation budget has been spent on trash-collecting boats and portable berms to stop the sludge and debris that flow into the bay.
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Having accurately calculated their positions, we drew a line through them and retraced the bullet to sand berms where Israeli snipers had taken up position minutes before the fatal shot.
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Some adaptation plans are explicitly labelled as such—New York City's proposal to construct a "Big U" of raised flood-control berms around the southern end of Manhattan, for example.
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The Houthis have been preparing for battle inside Hodeidah by digging trenches, building defense berms and reinforcing their ranks with troops in Hodeidah and in other towns surrounding the city.
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The Rakban crossing targeted on Tuesday is a military zone far from any inhabited area, and includes a two-mile stretch of berms built a decade ago to combat smuggling.
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Footage circulated online by the Amaq news agency appeared to show Islamic State fighters crouching behind dirt berms and launching the attack with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Leonard Guida, the police chief in Bradley Beach, said the berms would help fill gaps in the dunes that were still being rebuilt after Hurricane Sandy flattened them in late 2012.
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ISIS has had two years to prepare the defenses of Mosul, which include berms, trenches and "quite extensive" underground tunnels, some as long as 2 kilometers, according to a US military official.
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The Rakban crossing targeted on Tuesday is a military zone far from any inhabited area, and includes a three-km (two-mile) stretch of berms built a decade ago to combat smuggling.
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One such specialist is Michael Lloret, a wildlife biologist and crocodile specialists for Florida Power & Light, who from January to April is tasked with creating berms for the crocodiles to nest safely.
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The plans included ways to adapt, like building berms to reduce flooding risk that had increased because of climate change, and mitigation, like reducing the parks' carbon footprint by installing solar energy.
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Within two days of setting off toward Bashiqa, they had turned the valley into a grid of berms and trenches that prevented an ISIS breakout and cut off the group's supply lines.
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With Manbij now largely out of ISIS hands, ISIS is also reinforcing Raqqa with explosives, berms and even trenches filled with tires to burn for potential smoke screens, according to US defense officials.
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In addition, he said the city will pour $500 million into efforts to fortify other areas of Lower Manhattan with grassy berms in parks and removable barriers to be used as storms approach.
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And to facilitate escape, they have buried large quantities of cash in berms of sand and hidden weapons and ammunition in caves and underground passages, strategically positioning resources in the desert, analysts say.
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Yes. We turned in the forms, then wandered the camp, constrained by huge sand berms, with little to do other than eat and ogle mannequins in skimpy lingerie being sold by Kuwaiti merchants.
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"Right now we're planning to take some equipment down there and build some berms to try and slow that down or stop its progression coming into town," Witt said in a news conference Friday.
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Specific measures have not yet been determined, but could include adding sea walls and temporary flood walls that could be deployed before a storm, and building grass berms that could double as recreational areas.
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A San Jacinto River and Rail spokesman said the plant had spilled a "foamy emulsion" when floodwaters overtopped the berms around its facility but its operators did not expect any health or environmental impacts.
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These results are valuable for designing structures like fences and berms in places where rockfalls are common, said Jeffrey Moore, a geoscientist at the University of Utah, who was not involved in the research.
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They're in the demilitarized zone between Jordan and Syria, a stretch of rugged, sun-baked desert about four kilometers deep, bordered on the north and south by bulldozed earthen embankments, also known as berms.
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After this year's storm demolished the sandy protective berms that stand between the water and the main coastal road, the state sent backhoes to rebuild them and officials to assess damage to bridges and roads.
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Bazwaya, Iraq (CNN)It is across the ghostly silence and dense dust of the berms between ISIS' Mosul and advancing Iraqi special forces that the final chapter of ISIS' extinction in Iraq will play out.
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Plus, to protect residents, cities need to build seawalls and berms, elevate roads and buildings, and secure water sources — and they don't want taxpayers to be the only ones on the hook for that bill.
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Cliffs and seawalls have been reinforced, beaches bulldozed into defensive berms, drainage gullies cleared of rocks and fallen trees, and concrete "K-rails" installed to channel flash floods on hillsides laid bare by recent wildfires.
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Ms. Lesicko said farmers have sought to limit the amount of runoff, but estimated that measures like using less fertilizer and building berms may take as long as 15 or 20 years to produce results.
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But it was still an incredibly difficult road to navigate and when you're driving along it, you have to drive at absolute top speed because it's flanked by enemy positions on either side and the only thing you can see -- they built these little berms of earth to try to protect and it feels like such a feeble, futile gesture -- these little berms of earth to protect cars going along from the full force of the artillery and the air power that's coming its way.
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Specific measures have not yet been determined, but could include adding sea walls and temporary flood walls that could be deployed before a storm, as well as building grass berms that could double as recreational areas.
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This powerful pedal-assist mountain bike can reach 20 mph, all the while deftly absorbing bumps and cornering well in the berms with its 150 mm of travel in both the rear shock and front shock.
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But water from the river could still rush past the plant and into the streets and basements of the surrounding neighborhoods because the idea of building berms around Lower Manhattan is still in the planning stages.
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Demonstrators tried to tear down the fence so that tens of thousands of Palestinians could pour through, a nightmare scenario for Israel, but were stopped by fire from snipers positioned behind berms on the Israel side.
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Roadside bombing The convoy of vehicles we're in bump along the dirt road that cuts across agricultural fields, past defensive berms that snake through farmland and artillery positions leading to the Iraqi army's new frontline with ISIS.
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They also say that the use of locally tailored, onshore solutions alone, like berms, wetlands restoration and raised parks, would likely benefit wealthy areas first, not the low-income communities that suffered disproportionately from Sandy in 4.17.
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The berms can have the added benefit of creating green spaces where people can enjoy leisure time, which also pay for themselves as developers are more likely to invest in such areas and boost tax revenues, he added.
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Soldiers, the only Israelis Mr. Gerim has ever seen this close, can be spotted through the smoke of burning tires, moving about in their foxholes atop tall sand berms, occasionally launching tear-gas barrages, sometimes using live fire.
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Long stretches of the path are shielded from the highway by berms planted with trees and shrubs, but Saipov&aposs truck entered the bike path where a driveway crosses the path and leads to a parking garage and sports facility.
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The 12 images in the report show entrances to the site's underground areas that likely contain the missiles and trucks to transport them; defensives berms to protect the underground entrances from aerial attacks; housing for North Korean troops; and more.
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There were skirmishes at the fence, parts of which Israel had fortified in advance of Saturday's anniversary with steel plates topped by tall, heavy wire-mesh fencing, and bunkers built atop large earthen berms, where hundreds of snipers were positioned.
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One of the most ambitious ideas for protecting the city that has made real progress is a plan known as "the Big U," which would involve berms and walls along the edges of Manhattan from the Battery up to Midtown.
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In town, the main roads had been cleaned up, and we were able to drive several miles past the southern outskirts, to a village called Domiz, where bulldozers and backhoes were digging new trenches, heaping the red soil into high berms.
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The portion of the design proposed for the Lower East Side—which is, for now, the only funded part of the project—lines the waterfront with lushly planted berms that give pedestrians easier access to a slew of amenities on the water's edge.
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The promise of the Big U, which is being designed by the Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group, is that the 16-foot-high steel and concrete berms will be cleverly disguised as skate parks, public pools, urban farms, bird sanctuaries, and marshland trails.
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In the beige scrubland of the Nevada desert, with jagged mountains in the distance jutting up like the teeth of car keys and red-dirt berms all around, I could've squinted and imagined myself on a forward operating base somewhere in southern Afghanistan.
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Works in Progress To the uninitiated, Golconda Park looks like a bit of a mess: a collection of crooked Escher-like steps, some misplaced highway berms, a loading dock and a drained, scuffed swimming pool, all amid gravel and scattered construction equipment.
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Since the 211s, SFO has installed a variety of features to protect itself from the risk of flood associated with rising waters, including berms, concrete walls, and the kind of sheet piling construction projects use to keep water out of building sites.
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The town spends an inordinate amount of time and money maintaining enormous heaps of sand, called berms, that protect roads and other infrastructure from rapid coastal erosion that is only expected to get worse as the ice-free season stretches further into the fall.
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The berms, which are 18.5 feet at their peak, absorb storm surges when necessary, but their everyday function is just as important: serving as parklands and recreational areas for people who live in an especially gray and unpleasant part of an especially gray city.
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The 22019 square miles of lake bed was divided by berms into roughly 2380 cells, each one employing a slightly different dust mitigation technique: one cell might consist of a miles-long blanket of gravel, while another is planted with sprinklers, keeping the ground moist.
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This summer, Washington put in place a plan aimed at convincing Turkey the Syrian Kurds were not a threat that included requiring the Kurds to blow up tunnels, dismantle berms and dig up ammunition caches put in place to prepare for a potential Turkish attack.
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Either way, the smoke screens appeared effective: From the Israeli side, a detachment of Israeli soldiers ensconced behind earthen berms near the Nahal Oz kibbutz could only occasionally glimpse the hundreds of protesters in the Shajaiye neighborhood of Gaza City through vast clouds of acrid black smoke.
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Team B—Lomberg's team—proposed massive earthen berms in the style of the iconic nuclear trefoil sign along with a "marking system using languages, symbols, and pictographs, to be pictured on a few large and many small markers on the surface and underground" the site, he says.
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Rebutting accusations that the military used excessive force, two senior officers of the Maglan commando force said the armed Hamas force in the north emerged from the crowds and attacked a patrol vehicle and five of their positions, including those of snipers perched on sand berms along the fence.
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Only a few years ago, most of the space was a flat parking lot, but today huge berms—artificial hills—hug the road, blocking views of busy Wolfe Road and Interstate 280 and forming a rolling landscape with hundreds of trees, their roots half-buried in wooden boxes, ready for planting.
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The empty dwelling, without running water or a drainage system, is arranged around a rickety camper that is half submerged in a dirty pit and surrounded by 7-foot (2-meter) berms of used tires, sections of adobe wall topped with broken glass, a junked refrigerator and other odd supplies.
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As I saw during a visit to Modesto in the Central Valley, one idea is to create more floodplains by taking riverfront land (usually farmland) that had been protected by levees and berms and allowing that land to flood, which can lower river flood levels at communities along the river.
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From the drive through smoldering fields and scorched earth to the berms atop which snipers peer through powerful binoculars to compensate for the fog of war — or whatever this fight should be called — there were new signs of damage and destruction, new adjustments in tactics on both sides, but few reasons to think the clashes would end anytime soon.
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