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"dike" Definitions
  1. a long thick wall that is built to stop water flooding onto a low area of land, especially from the sea
  2. (especially British English) a channel that carries water away from the land synonym ditch
  3. (taboo, offensive, slang) an offensive word for a lesbian

190 Sentences With "dike"

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Even if the dike functions well during Irma, Mr. Javed said, there might be some spillover from several areas of the dike where work is being done.
Mr. Dike and Mr. Sidel closed it in 1987 because, they said, the scene had become stale, and Mr. Dike threw himself into his work at Delicious Vinyl.
The president will visit Lake Okeechobee in Florida and the Herbert Hoover Dike to call attention to federal support for infrastructure investments, pointing to dike repair as an example (The Hill).
The New York artist Dike Blair loves his drinks boozy and caffeinated.
The dike won't hold, the current of history will wash him away.
Mr. Dike and Mr. Ross met in 1983 at the Los Angeles nightclub Rhythm Lounge, where Mr. Dike was working as a D.J. They were both interested in hip-hop, unusual for white music fans at the time.
In addition to his brother, he is survived by a sister, Vikyana Dike.
Mr. Javed said the dike was a good example of Florida's maintenance problem.
KS) and the family of former Philippine Senator Manuel Villar Jr. The Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike project involves construction of a 47 kilometer (29.2 mile) expressway and a 45 kilometer dike that will mitigate flooding in communities along Laguna Lake.
They built a temporary dike to contain any leakage, but the work coincided with unusually heavy rain last week which caused the dike to overflow, allowing water with iron salts to enter the river, turning it bright red, Dyachenko said.
That district is very Republican, and the blue wave there almost breached the dike.
The burning tanks are surrounded by other storage tanks within a spill containment dike.
Two riders on a bike path lining the dike left us in the dust.
Oil-on-aluminum close-ups of cocktails and other cool drinks by Dike Blair.
He wants to build a dike against the 21st-century movement in people's minds.
The burning tank is surrounded by several other storage tanks within a spill containment dike.
EDT: President Trump visits Lake Okeechobee and the Herbert Hoover Dike in Canal Point, Fla.
In 2388, the corps began building a boomerang-shaped dike as the island's new perimeter.
The dike, he said, was preparation for a land reclamation project that never took place.
IBAMA said Samarco will be fined daily until it increases the height of the "S3 dike" that was built to contain the continuing run off from the dam spill and effectively treats the mining waste, known as tailings, that lies upstream of the dike.
"I'm now working for really cool clients all over the world," Dike tells Refinery29 via email.
Then in 2013, nearly 50 people died after heavy rains caused a local dike to collapse.
A dike was built across the mouth of Company Pond to isolate it from the river.
The Corps of Engineers is dealing with a dike nearly 80 years old with structural problems.
But in difficult times, people like Dove keep their fingers in the dike and avert catastrophe.
Several sources told VICE News that Samarco began construction for the fourth dike nevertheless in March.
" I had even pudgier cheeks back then, and my question came out as, "Do you dike me?
" He suggests, without being specific, the former official added, that he's got "his finger in the dike.
The six tanks still burning are surrounded by nine other storage tanks within a spill containment dike.
But soon after Delicious Vinyl's breakout year, Mr. Dike became less and less visible at the label.
The marsh had been drained by a dike for 300 years, causing loss of soil and carbon.
" Dike explained that she's a huge avocado fan, so much that people have begun calling her "Avo Queen.
Image: NASA Earth ObservatorySugar farms depend on Lake Okeechobee's dike system to keep their fields from becoming swamps.
A 28-mile-long dike formed beneath the surface, channeling hot magma to the eruption sites at Holuhraun.
We'll see if the administration's solutions turn out to be effective or just a finger in the dike.
But having put his finger in the dike, Mr. Putin can't remove it or Mr. Assad will drown.
Japanese brands have long been reluctant to branch outside of Japan, reported Jason Dike for Hypebeast in October, but they&aposre finally expanding into new markets, particularly the UK. It&aposs likely because, Dike wrote, the world is catching on to Japanese culture and trends because of the upcoming Olympics.3.
Its aging dike was built after flooding unleashed by two catastrophic hurricanes killed thousands of people in the 1920s.
"My burger bun creations, avocado ribbons and the avocado proposal post went completely viral, which definitely helped," Dike says.
Colette Dike, founder and editor-in-chief of Food Deco, recently posted a photograph of a pristinely pitless avocado.
"I took this picture and it's my own Tiffany's engagement ring," Dike wrote to MUNCHIES over email on Tuesday.
In the years since, the US Army Corp of Engineers drew up plans to improve the dike protecting Princeville.
Deputy Sherriff Huck Look saw Ted's car 90 minutes after Ted said his car went over the Dike Bridge.
"That includes repairing so many of Florida's problems," including the Herbert Hoover Dike, the Florida Aquifer and the Everglades.
A norte was blustering, sending breakers crashing over the stone dike built in 1901 under short-lived American rule.
It will be drawn by Dike Ruan, for the present-day scenes, with Philip Tan drawing for the flashbacks.
It was the little Dutch boy and the dike, but for every hole we plugged, a dozen more appeared.
The dam's length – when taking into account the Hernandarias dike – is 1033,919 meters, while its maximum height hits 196 meters.
Nearly five decades ago, on July 18, 1969, a car went off the Dike Bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick.
His wife was among more than 20 people who were found dead in the city, where a river dike collapsed.
Luyendyk Jr. (pronounced LION-dike) was born in The Netherlands and moved to the United States when he was 2.
Similar to Netherlands barriers The concept of the Ike Dike leans heavily on existing seawalls and floodgates in the Netherlands.
All this should help build the GOP dike against the Democrats' blue wave in November, but caution is in order.
But while this is an excellent first step, it is only one finger in a crumbling dike of abortion access.
Tammy Jackson-Moore, sitting on a dock on top of the lake, spends her days thinking about the Herbert Hoover Dike.
The pieces come from the estate of Basquiat's friend, the Los Angeles hip-hop producer Matt Dike, who died in January.
Last week, crowds gathered in Brooklyn Heights to stick a collective finger in yet another crumbling dike, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
He said EDF had completed the works at the dike and sent the dossier to the ASN, which is now reviewing it.
What's disturbing is seeing the lengths this administration will go to in order to plug the multiple holes in the ACA dike.
The water is pumped directly from the Oosterschelde through a hole in the dike, which contains a filter to clean the water.
On Friday, a leak from a containment dike at the facility prompted new travel restrictions in the immediate vicinity of the plant.
The Corps has been struggling to protect the lake's fragile Herbert Hoover Dike and prevent it from bursting and flooding neighboring areas.
And Texas leaders should be compelled to include the Ike Dike or an equivalent seawall plan in whatever emergency aid gets delivered.
EDF said that work to strengthen the dike located to the north of the Tricastin nuclear plant had been completed on Oct.
Ted Kennedy plunged off the Dike Bridge into the waters off of Martha's Vineyard, killing his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne?
Deputy press secretary Judd Deere tweeted that Trump will make the trip on Friday to "tout work on dike repair" on the lake.
A dike containing massive amounts of coal waste burst, releasing 1.1 billion gallons of the heavy-metal sludge onto land and into waterways.
A dike breach sent toxic chemicals and foam into the Tucker Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel, killing fish, birds, opossums and turtles.
Francisco Delgado Jr. told ABC 13 his family went swimming at the Texas City Dike with his son Frankie, 4, on Memorial Day weekend.
In the coming month, works will be carried out to strengthen the dike in order to guarantee its ability to withstand a major earthquake.
"We feel partly responsible, because we made the dike that suffocated the lake," said Ben Viveen, a government official overseeing the island-building effort.
The Russian government built a $106 million dike in 2005 that sealed off the Aral Sea, which had been drying up because of agriculture.
Oakland's airport plans to fortify and raise by 220 feet the 230-mile dike that separates its main runway and terminals from the bay.
As the storm passed over Lake Okeechobee, wind blew water to break the Moore Haven dike in several places, where about 150 people drowned.
Colette Dike, the avocado sculptor (seriously) behind FoodDeco, which boasts 119k followers on Instagram, used to work for a large publishing company in the Netherlands.
The goat's death was set in motion when it ventured to the south end of the Seward Harbor breakwater dike on Saturday, according to Peters.
That's changed since Colette Dike of Fooddeco revolutionized the foodie world's concept of buns with her droolworthy instagram feed and, especially, her avocado burger bun.
His father, Frankie Delgado Jr., told PEOPLE that his son began vomiting in the days following a family swimming trip to the Texas City Dike.
Some of the liquids leaked out of a containment dike and into a nearby drainage ditch that feeds into the Houston Ship Channel, he said.
The spill occurred last week in Lukavac when a dike cracked at the Sisacam Soda Lukavac factory, a subsidiary of Turkey's chemical maker Soda Sanayi.
Dr. Merrell's Ike Dike has the blessing of simplicity, which softens the sticker shock: It is estimated to cost between $6 billion and $13 billion.
Later this year, Studio Roosegaarde will present Icoon Afsluitdijk, a series of permanent and temporary works on a 20-mile-long dike in The Netherlands.
A retroreflective layer will be applied on 60 concrete locks at each end of a dike and which will alight with the headlights from cars.
"To keep all these small and finger-in-the-dike type integrity units in individual sports is at best only putting off the deluge," Eaton said.
"The real problem in China is that it's a finger in the dike situation," Andrew Collier, managing director at Orient Capital Research, told CNBC's Street Signs.
Data shows that this flow of magma along the subterranean dike preceded the formation of the caldera, which means it drove the formation of the caldera.
The rains caused excessive runoff into Lake Okeechobee, and as water levels rose the Corps had to increase outflow from the lake to protect the dike.
Individual state legislatures should be commended for moving ahead with finger-in-the-dike legal measures, like bans on bump stocks, universal background checks, restraining orders.
In 20123, a dike at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant gave way, releasing more than a million tons of coal ash, and contaminating two rivers.
The specter of the 1926 and 1928 hurricanes, both of which burst the dike open and together killed thousands of people, still hangs over communities here.
She publishes the water levels of the dike on the Guardians of the Glades Facebook page—letting people know when the levels get close to flooding.
In order to strengthen the dike, Nieboer said one option would be to remove the asphalt, raise the structure and asphalt it again, an expensive process.
"He has never done anything to get us the money to fix the dike at Lake Okeechobee, which is a 100 percent federal project," Scott said.
As "Catch-22" was beginning its delayed but spectacular liftoff, Rosset was trying to plug a dike with sixty holes in it, and keep Grove solvent.
The dam will provide support to the dike around a pond "where most of the ash still onsite remains," Santee Cooper said in a statement Thursday.
Part of the problem, Campbell explained, is that Lake Okeechobee's dike is susceptible to seepage and erosion and water levels are already at a 10- year high.
Tremors and seismic shocks at the eruption site sent the magma rushing back and forth along the dike, which functioned much like a two-way water hose.
Some of the liquids leaked out of a containment dike and into a nearby drainage ditch that feeds into the Houston Ship Channel, the EPA official said.
The blooms have spread as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases water from Lake Okeechobee to keep levels down to protect the aging Herbert Hoover Dike.
This will see the two concrete lock complexes, the Lorentz and Stevin lock, located at different ends of the dike, covered in a retroreflective layer from Roosegaarde.
The 143-mile-long earthen dike was built in the 1930s, after two hurricanes in the decade before brought catastrophic floods, one of which killed 2,000 people.
She lives only about a dozen blocks from the dike, and while she was concerned, she said, "I do have confidence" in the engineers and the pumps.
Dike told Health last week that the photo was the result of a partnership with the World Avocado Organization, who did not respond to immediate request for comment.
The Ike Dike was initially proposed by Dr. William Merrell, a professor and researcher at Texas A&M University in Galveston, shortly after Hurricane Ike hit the region.
On slides published on Friday, EDF said a team of about 20163 workers, including 25 trucks in rotation, had been working from dawn to dusk on the dike.
"If it floods this time, I think my family is out," said Ms. Cobb, 50, who lives directly across the street from a dike along the Tar River.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the dike, has been working on repairs since 2001, and the project is expected to take another eight years.
A fourth dike was also planned but was not approved as its projected construction site was now on top of private property in the ruins of Bento Rodrigues.
In parable terms, it's like having a hole in the dike, and instead of using his finger to stop it up, the little Dutch boy has left for college.
For the past few years, they have been farming oysters within the dikes that separate dry land from the river Oosterschelde, effectively creating the world's first inner-dike oysters.
The Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the lake's dike, is a federal entity, so Nelson, the ad suggests, is to blame based on his time in the Senate.
And in 2013, torrential rains caused a nearly 523-foot-long section of a dike in Jakarta's Dutch-built West Flood Canal to collapse, completely flooding the city center.
Delicious Vinyl went on to work with artists like the Brand New Heavies, the Pharcyde and Masta Ace, but by that time Mr. Dike had left the label behind.
Unlike the little dike-plugging Dutch boy in "Hans Brinker," his heroism is never recognized or rewarded, though older readers might intuit that's the direction future volumes might turn.
But the dike, built seven decades ago and named for Herbert Hoover, was not the only major piece of Florida infrastructure that had officials concerned as the hurricane approached.
Miniere said he hoped the four reactors at Tricastin - which the ASN orded be halted pending repairs to a dike along a cooling water canal - would return to service soon.
Fearing a catastrophic dike breach, the Army Corps began discharging billions of gallons of water a day through its canals, turning the St. Lucie estuary into a freshwater ecosystem overnight.
PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDF will temporarily shut down all four reactors at its Tricastin nuclear power plant after regulator ASN identified flaws in a canal dike bordering the plant.
There, an aging dike system forces the Army Corps of Engineers to release controlled discharges through channel locks east and west from the lake to protect nearby towns from flooding.
Hip-hop was a rarity on most Top 21987 radio stations when the Los Angeles nightclub D.J.s Matt Dike and Mike Ross created a record label, Delicious Vinyl, in 1987.
Scott has directed blame at the federal government since the main barrier between Lake Okeechobee and the river that leads to the estuary is the federally owned Herbert Hoover Dike.
But just six years after the dike was breached, rates of carbon accumulation in the restored marsh averaged more than five times the rate reported for a nearby mature marsh.
Army Corps crews will begin working to remove the dike on Wednesday or Thursday, a process that may take several days, American Commercial Barge Lines said in a daily industry report.
That all changed in the 1930s, when the US Army Corps of Engineers erected the a vast dike system around the lake in order to drain lands for settlement and cultivation.
That disaster prompted the US Army Corps of Engineers to erect an enormous dike around the lake, cutting off the Everglades' lifeblood and draining hundreds of thousands of acres for agriculture.
After denying blame for the contamination of the water, Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer, said Monday that a dike at its Nadezhda plant overflowed, coloring the river blood red.
The "Ike Dike" being designed to protect Houston and Galveston might prevent future hurricanes from wreaking tens of billions of dollars in damages to the region, as Ike and Harvey did.
Absolutely. I've read that officials in the Houston-Galveston area have discussed building a "costal spine" or a dike in the bay to keep storm surge waters out of the cities.
The engineers expressed concerns about excessive wind pushing water over the dike, causing flooding, though they assured the Governor the structural integrity would not be compromised, he said at a press conference.
Rick Scott ordered evacuations, first voluntary, later to become mandatory, for cities south of Lake Okeechobee, after the US Army Corps of Engineers warned of flooding from water passing over its dike.
The system is commonly referred to as Dutchboy, after the fairy-tale story of a little boy who saved a Holland town by plugging a leak in a dike with his finger.
It said in the statement that work on strengthening the dike ordered by the ASN had been completed on Friday, leaving ASN, together with its technical arm, the IRSN, to inspect it.
Floodwaters were continuing to overtop an earthen dike at the north side of Sutton Lake, a 1,100-acre reservoir at the L.V. Sutton Power Station, the AP reported, citing a company spokeswoman.
When rains hit in May, the lake swells behind a feeble and aging dike, and the Army Corps of Engineers, needing to protect the nearby towns, releases the slurry to the ocean.
Last month, investors snubbed the bidding for a $2.7-billion scheme to build an expressway and dike, and reclaim land, due to concerns over the project's viability and uncertainties over the political transition.
The Dutch government built a dam in 1976 sectioning off the lake, one of Europe's largest and shallowest bodies of freshwater, but the dike trapped sediment, muddied its waters and damaged its wildlife.
Florida governor Rick Scott ordered evacuations, first voluntary, later to become mandatory for cities south of Lake Okeechobee, after the US Army Corps of Engineers warned of flooding from water passing over its dike.
"We are convinced that the Tricastin reactors could remain in operation while the dike reinforcement works are being carried out," Philippe Sasseigne, the head of EDF's French reactor fleet, told reporters on a call.
Still incredulous, they came to wish the caissons bon voyage a week later, after a 150-foot-wide cut was opened in the dike, allowing six tugboats to wrangle it out into the river.
They, in turn, invited artists showing elsewhere in the fair to consign objects that bend the line between art and design, like a lamp by Dorothy Iannone or Dike Blair's disconcertingly plausible Windex bottle.
Local officials have called for construction of a seawall — nicknamed the "Ike Dike" after 2008's Hurricane Ike — to protect the region from a major storm, but the project hasn't gotten off the ground.
EDF had lowered the target in September after the French nuclear safety authority (ASN) ordered it to shut down Tricastin's four pressurised water reactors after it found flaws in a canal dike bordering the plant.
As soon as the new rice plants established themselves in one paddy, the farmers would create an opening in the field's surrounding dike, or berm, and allow the water to run into the next paddy.
The Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands is a 20-mile-long dike that runs from the village of Den Oever in North Holland to the village of Zurich in Friesland, and helps protect the coastline from flooding.
Offered from the estate of Matt Dike, a Los Angeles hip-hop producer who was a friend of the artist, this sold for $9.5 million with fees to the New York-based art dealer Jude Hess.
Television footage showed rivers filled with fast-moving brown water, but none had overflowed their banks as of Wednesday evening, although one low dike had broken and efforts were being made to repair it with sandbags.
After a fire caused a dike at the facility to break, "large (and still unknown) quantities" of toxic chemicals spilled into a nearby waterway for five days, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement.
Among other things, he has pushed for more money to help the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, Florida's largest inland lake, whose dike, designed to keep its water from flooding nearby residences, is in need of major maintenance.
The $2.7 billion scheme to build an expressway and dike was slated to be the second-largest infrastructure project under President Benigno Aquino's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme which aims to upgrade ageing roads, airports and schools.
Samarco has proposed a new system to contain mining waste—an old, confined pit protected by a 33-foot dike, capable of holding two years worth of residue, while the company looks for a more permanent solution.
"Florida's waterways, wildlife and families have been severely impacted by the inaction and negligence of the federal government not making the needed repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike and Florida can no longer afford to wait," Scott said.
"Studies show that flooding resulting from the breakage of the dike could lead to an accident involving the meltdown of the four reactors' nuclear fuel, while the rescue operation would be particularly difficult," ASN said in a statement.
The Dead Sea could be an ideal place to train a runner to complete a marathon in less than two hours, according to the scientist Yannis Pitsiladis, who did a test run along a dike there in February.
In Tennessee in December 2008, a dike used by a coal plant to contain coal ash broke, causing more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge to pour into the Emory River, according to National Geographic.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's ASN nuclear regulator was still studying files submitted by utility EDF concerning repair works on a dike at its Tricastin nuclear plant, an ASN spokeswoman said on Friday, adding that the works have not been completed.
Rick Scott, a Republican, issued an executive order last month, declaring states of emergency in several counties to help combat the growing blooms and announced an agreement on a $50 million state investment to fund repairs to the dike.
When lake levels get too high for the aging Herbert Hoover Dike to be entrusted to hold its trillion-gallon load, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flushes the noxious waters into the beleaguered Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers.
"He has not identified pollution as the main culprit here; instead, he has talked about the need to build a stronger dike around Lake Okeechobee to store more water," said Frank Jackalone, director of the Sierra Club's Florida chapter.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government hopes to evaluate bids and select the winner for a 20103 billion peso ($2.6 billion) tollway and dike project before President Benigno Aquino steps down on June 30, a senior official said on Tuesday.
After a fire caused a dike at the facility to break, "large (and still unknown) quantities" of toxic chemicals, xylene and benzene, spilled into a nearby waterway for five days, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement.
Governor Scott, who recently gutted the state's water policy of pollution regulation, is trying to blame the Obama administration for failing to repair Okeechobee's aging dike system, and to paint septic tanks, not agriculture, as the cause of the bloom.
In Florida, green slime infests beaches, in large part because failure to upgrade an 80-year-old dike or to purchase more land as a runoff area is forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to release polluted water from Lake Okeechobee.
Since then, two main research teams have led the way in preparing for the next big storm: Bill Merrell's "Ike Dike" team at Texas A&M Galveston, and the Sspeed Center at Rice University, led by Phil Bedient and Jim Blackburn.
On its face, the plan seems unwieldy, but Sspeed's models show it could stop most of the surge from going up the ship channel, with or without the Ike Dike, at an estimated cost of only a few billion dollars.
It could be a very long time before we begin construction on the enormous Ike Dike, which is supposed to protect our coastline from storm surges — the sort of protection taxpayers in the Netherlands have been happy to ante up for.
The bride's maternal grandfather, the late Thomas Dwight Eddleman, known as Dike, represented the United States in the high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics and later played professional basketball with the Fort Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball Association.
After the Army Corps of Engineers reviewed the projected impact of Hurricane Irma on dike systems, Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered the cities surrounding the southern half of Lake Okeechobee, an inland lake, from Lake Point to Palm Beach and Glades County.
Not everyone in this world is accepting of that lifestyle nor do we want to see it on tv, especially when we have 10 fucking channels, one of which is a schedule channel and the other has a dike journalist bashing conservatives.
Images: Studio Roosegaarde Additionally, the unqiueness of the straight line of the dike will be celebrated with Line of Light, which will see the guide rail on the Afsluitdijk get a reflective layer, giving cars added safety and creating a Zen-like calm.
One example: When our senior senator, John Cornyn, was running for re-election in 2014, the Houston Chronicle's editorial board asked him for his view of a huge coastal storm-surge-protection project in the Houston-Galveston area known as the Ike Dike.
A documentary of a small village on the coast, Am Siel is narrated by an old dike (voiced by Robert Wolfgang Schnell), the sentient floodgate wondering, assuming, and thinking aloud about the land, sounding like a nostalgic, bitter, even post-modern waterway.
"Trying to stop migrants coming from Africa with a fence alone is as fanciful as the little Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike," said Leonard Doyle, the spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.
Lieutenant Calley grew to hate and fear the local Vietnamese after losing his radio telephone operator, William Weber, to a sniper's bullet while carelessly leading his men along the top of a dike between rice paddies to keep them out of the water.
"The idea that it's possible to somehow restrict in a world where the skies are increasingly open—it's a little bit like you've got 20 leaks in the dike, or 200, and you can only put your finger into one of them," says Scott.
Most vessels would normally be able to pass over the lowered wicket dam during high-water periods, but a rock dike that was installed in the river as part of an emergency dam repair this autumn is preventing boats from safely passing, they said.
Shortly after that catastrophe, researchers at Texas A&M proposed a string of barriers, dubbed the "Ike Dike," that would replace a century-old, 17-foot seawall with a taller, state-of-the-art barrier that would include floodgates at the entrance to Galveston Bay.
"If the Obama administration had properly budgeted the necessary funding to maintain the dike to operate at its higher potential capacity of 18 feet, the Corps would not have been required to discharge approximately 30 billion gallons of flood waters," read Scott's executive order.
Over the weekend, a dike was breached in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec, a suburb west of Montreal, sending 5,000 residents fleeing to higher ground, some frantically scooping up their small children, pets and valuables as water came as high as their waists.
"The only step forward is to evacuate four to five million people, or build this outer sea dike, which gives you another 20 to 50 years to solve all of the problems." says JanJaap Brinkmann, a Dutch Hydrologist who is working on solutions for Jakarta.
Ted claims he tried to rescue Kopechne, despite waiting 10 hours to notify the police Ted said that he was giving Kopechne a ride back to the ferry so she could return to her hotel when he took wrong turn and headed toward the Dike Bridge.
Intercontinental Terminals Company's "make-shift dike" broke after the fire, which sent "large (and still unknown) quantities of xylene and benzene, highly toxic chemicals, into Tucker Bayou, which flows directly into the Galveston Bay," according to a news release from Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
Along with this, other temporary works include energy-generating kites with luminous cables, for a piece called Windvogel, and Glowing Nature, which will use bioluminescent algae from micro-organisms and place them inside a historical bunker from the period when the dike was completed in 1932.
"We're constantly having to balance the potential of an environmental impact from releasing water against the very real public safety hazard of containing the water and the hazard that poses by putting pressure on the dike itself," Mr. Campbell said by telephone Thursday from Jacksonville, Fla.
While Mr. Dike worked on his hits for Delicious Vinyl, he also worked on "Paul's Boutique" with the Beastie Boys, who had acrimoniously parted ways with Def Jam after their debut album, "Licensed to Ill" (1986), had sold more than four million copies in about a year.
I think Brent Saunders is doing a terrific job and nobody really cares, particularly the Goldman Sachs analyst who tries every single day to be able to cut numbers but can't seem to find exactly the hole in the dike that she keeps wanting to plug in.
"It is the federal government's sole responsibility to maintain the federally operated Herbert Hoover Dike, and for more than a decade, the federal government has ignored proper maintenance and repair to this structure," the governor said in a request to President Barack Obama for a federal state of emergency.
The authority has had more recent challenges in dealing with coal ash: In 2008, an ash pond dike at its Kingston Fossil Plant in eastern Tennessee collapsed, releasing just over a billion gallons of coal ash water into the Emory River, which flows into two other rivers, including the Tennessee.
This being the Netherlands, there was no mistaking the division: on one side, a canal bordered by tightly wedged row houses; on the other, a path and perhaps a house on top of a high grassy dike, a thin line of blue water, a flat farm field or a rough stand of trees.
He and Jon Sidel, a restaurateur and club impresario, began a series of parties at temporary locations that coalesced in the mid-1980s into the popular dance and art club Power Tools, which featured Mr. Dike as the main D.J. and shows by young groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys.
Frankie Delgado was playing in knee-deep water during a Memorial Day weekend trip to Texas City Dike when a wave from a distant ship knocked him over and his head went under, said his father, Francisco Delgado Jr. A family friend picked him up, and Frankie said he was OK. "He had fun the rest of the day," Delgado said.

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