Dikes, dams weakened Montreal's mayor has declared a state of emergency as rising flood waters threaten dikes and breakwaters and force residents from their homes in parts of the province of Quebec.
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Landscapers build what are essentially decorative earthen dikes around houses.
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Along the bayou, workers navigate marsh buggy excavators building containment dikes.
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Sailors named shipworms, which burrow into and devour wooden ships and dikes.
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But it is the condition for the dikes to continue holding up.
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But now, rising sea levels and storm surges are threatening those aging dikes.
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Wide areas of Tokyo now sit below sea level, protected by aging dikes.
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Comprised of 13 sections it includes dikes, a storm-surge barrier and dams.
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As sea level rises, this will require a system of dams, dikes and breakwaters.
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There's a whole group of dikes to whom these characters, these books may appeal.
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The rest is generally combined with water that's stored in aging dikes and ponds.
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Drawing upon his engineering background, he also helped repair dikes and water-control structures.
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"It's not a question of if the dikes will be breached, it's simply a question of when," David Kogon, the Mayor of Amherst, a town on the Nova Scotian side of the border, told CBC urging the government to rebuild the dikes.
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It built levees, dikes and dams along thousands of miles of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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"You can't build dikes or sandbars to keep it out," Coral Gables' mayor Jim Cason said.
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Designers of gerrymanders ignore the possibility of a 100-year flood, so their dikes are shallow.
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First, they can build dikes, sand dunes, or other defenses to fend off the rising oceans.
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The south shore of Lake Okeechobee, where migrant farm workers lived, was flooded as water topped dikes.
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"Of Dikes and Windmills" (1969) was a full-length book with diagrams, maps, street scenes and landscapes.
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As sea levels rise, dikes have been proposed to protect low-lying cities, much like Zamyatin's Green Wall.
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the floods of fear," Martin Luther King Jr. said.
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Workers using large cranes and industrial equipment move rock and soil to form new levees and containment dikes.
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Nieboer explained that, as a civil engineer, he used to work on constructions using dikes with asphalt protection.
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That meant raising dikes and levees, rerouting rivers, and, in some cases, moving villages out of harm's way.
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Here, the dearth of freshwater caused by recent drought and so many dikes up north has taken a toll.
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Nearly two million people have been moved to safer ground while swollen rivers and lakes strain dikes and dams.
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That land, protected by the dikes, currently connects the peninsula of Nova Scotia to the neighbouring province of New Brunswick.
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While the dikes may be working, the lack of effective drainage in cities has become a sore point with the public.
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With hurricane season yet to come, the Army Corps still has to carefully determine how to release and plug the dikes.
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"We have been working together in this country for centuries to protect ourselves from the water, building the dikes," he said.
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The south shore of Lake Okeechobee was hit by severe flooding as a surge of water topped dikes in the area.
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In the Netherlands, a 20-foot surge broke through dikes, flooding areas that the Dutch had believed would never be flooded.
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In the aftermath of the rupture, Samarco created a series of dikes to contain the waste and keep it from spreading.
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The miner disclosed that although 80 structures had their stability certificates renewed, another 13 dams and four dikes did not receive certifications.
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Nuclear regulator ASN had ordered the temporary closure of its four reactors while EDF reinforced the dikes of its cooling water canal.
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Or just maybe we'll rise to the occasion: With the flood upon us, we, too, will learn how to build dikes together.
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There are new dikes by the harbor, and a proposal to build a new island in the northeast to block storm surges.
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It didn't need to be planted in watery fields surrounded by dikes, which meant that those who grew it weren't dogged by malaria.
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In a letter to Nixon, he urged his doomed friend to bomb Vietnam's dikes; turns out there are bridges even Nixon could not cross.
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A violent windstorm, a storm surge, and a high tide generated massive waves that overtopped the dikes defending the power plant, flooding the facility.
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Seventy percent of the country lies below sea level, and this nation had long felt protected by walls and dikes against the attacking sea.
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In the old days, when the winds reached a certain speed, the national water board would place people on the dikes to watch for breaches.
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Waste is still flowing out of the Fundão dam almost every time it rains, even though Samarco built three temporary dikes to contain leftover waste.
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Officials built dikes and used pumps to stop the contaminated water from flowing downstream, while some towns downstream stopped pumping drinking water from the Imjin River.
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"The water has become thoroughly and completely frightening," Baum said, adding the dams and dikes that hold back polluted lake water need to be better regulated.
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In the Netherlands, a drought — rather than the rising seas — is hurting its system of dikes because there is not enough fresh water countering the seawater.
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More than 250 years ago, French colonists known as the Acadians built dikes between two provinces on Canada's east coast, transforming marshland in between them into farmland.
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Over the centuries, the Dutch have developed a world-class system of canals, dikes and levees to keep their low-lying cities from sinking beneath the waves.
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Storms washed away not only newly planted grain—which was already scarce, because farmers had begun eating their seed corn to survive—but also topsoil and dikes.
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In their paper, Oppenheimer and Alley point out that the Netherlands has built flexible dikes and sand dunes that can be augmented over time, as forecasts evolve.
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"They have no incentive to reduce the amount of water they pump or think about from where they get the earth to build their dikes," she said.
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The government has committed billions of yuan to combat the problem — about $2 billion worth — but the article reports that corruption has slowed the construction of needed dikes.
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Helicopters rescued as many as 1,000 people who climbed to the roofs of their submerged homes after three dikes burst on a nearby river, according to Japan Times.
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In a race to stop the stream of blood, South Korean officials hastily built dikes and used pumps to halt the contaminated water, The New York Times reported.
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Chinese forces breached dikes on the Yellow River to halt the Japanese advance, but the resulting flood destroyed thousands of villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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In 2017, ASN ordered the closure of Tricastin's four reactors from September to December while EDF strengthened the dikes to prevent them from collapsing in case of an earthquake.
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Before climate change started raising ocean levels around the world, the Dutch were building intricate systems of dikes and canals so people could live in and around the water.
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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.
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Floods in the Red River valley are so common that towns such as Emerson sit behind high earth dikes to protect them in case the Red breaches its banks.
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THE HAGUE — If there is one thing the Dutch agree on, it is to preserve the dikes that protect this low-lying country from the ravages of violent seas.
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U.S.-based environmental group Forest Trends urges governments to look beyond traditional flood prevention like building dams, dikes and concrete walls along river banks, and consider protecting watersheds surrounding cities.
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The downstream flow, which broke flood stage records at three locations along the river, has placed enormous strain on the system of flood-control levees and dikes in the region.
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Pitsiladis had one final mission on his scouting trip: a run of five or six miles along dikes that jutted into the sea, bordering vast ponds where minerals were extracted.
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Pitch Black To The Future The Gateway, not to be confused with The GatewayIn this remake of the movie Drive, we flew some drones near the sprawling dikes north of Amsterdam.
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All around, marshy dikes and shallow streams swarmed with naked-necked turkey vultures and meticulous long-legged waterfowl, and the vegetation seemed as likely to harbor grazing dinosaurs as rocket scientists.
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Mr. Rutte said he would seek the passage of an emergency law to allow vital infrastructure projects, like strengthening the dikes that shield much of the low-lying country from flooding.
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They pointed out scratches in the rocks caused by retreating glaciers and unusual geological formations, such as trap dikes (deep clefts in the rock caused by the erosion of softer stone).
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She keeps her world of the fen people half-hidden from him, although she explains how they "call upon the water" to form islands without digging or creating dikes or walls.
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In 2017, the ASN had already ordered the closure of Tricastin's four reactors from September to December while EDF strengthened the dikes to prevent them from collapsing in case of an earthquake.
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Yet the French vote has confirmed a trend apparent in recent elections in two other European Union member states, Austria and the Netherlands: Across the Channel from Britain, the dikes are holding.
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The idea is that this resembles the way medieval Dutch nobles and farmers haggled over maintaining the dikes and canals that kept their polders above water—and over how to split the bill.
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For centuries, the Dutch have been building dikes to mold their lands and manage floods, and the dam on the Markermeer, which is being retained for flood control, represented a rare environmental misstep.
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Taken the previous winter, it showed a graveyard near the town of Nieuwpoort after the dikes had been opened by the Belgians in an effort to stall the Germans' advance across their country.
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A new paper addresses the other half of the problem and shows that coastal habitats can provide protection cost-effectively, particularly when compared to built or gray infrastructure such as seawalls or dikes.
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The restart depends on authorization from the Minas Gerais state environmental agency Semad, which told Reuters that the miner needs to find a solution for the leaks from dikes built after the dam burst.
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The artillery was intended to harass Vietcong; but there were no Vietcong in My Lai, not any more at least, so it merely damaged houses and dikes and forced residents to hide in bunkers.
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The flooding in Montreal, which is centered on a group of islands at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, began when waters breached dikes in the northern part of the city.
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The approach focuses on so-called "nature-based solutions" - which involves improving ecosystems, including forests, wetlands and watersheds - led by village farmer associations, rather than building infrastructure like dikes and levees to contain floods.
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ASN's technical arm IRSN said in a note that the Tricastin nuclear plant is located about six metres below the Donzere-Mondragon canal and that a major earthquake could cause its gravel dikes to liquefy.
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But if a storm were to overwhelm the massive dikes and levees protecting the Arakawa river that runs through low-lying eastern Tokyo, the economic damage could exceed $800 billion, warns Yoshiaki Kawata, a Kansai University professor.
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But if a storm were to overwhelm the massive dikes and levees protecting the Arakawa river that runs through low-lying eastern Tokyo, the economic damage could exceed $73 billion, warns Yoshiaki Kawata, a Kansai University professor.
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Detailed instances of forced labor, such as the building of dams and dikes at the threat of death, were enumerated, along with forms of torture ranging from suffocation by plastic bags to the extraction of toenails and fingernails.
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For the Dutch, both the British vote to leave the European Union and Donald J. Trump's election in the United States broke political dikes, leaving the Dutch ill at ease with the conflict and uncertainty that has ensued.
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According to Marcelo Campos, Minas Gerais' superintendent of the federal environmental regulator, the arrival of the full-on rainy season in October could put an untenable strain on the temporary dikes and other dams downstream within a month.
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Ibama coordinator for emergencies, Fernanda Pirillo, said half of the 24 million cubic meters of tailings that remained in the dam after it burst have leaked into the provisional dikes, which are leaking the turbid water into the environment.
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But the death toll from floods and severe rains each year has generally been going down, helped by more government spending on dikes and other flood protection, as well as efforts to evacuate areas when waters reach dangerous levels.
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In the decades after the land was designated a wildlife refuge in 1908, under the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt, conservationists built dikes, storage dams, canals, ditches and channels, and sprayed rotenone, an aquatic poison, to kill invasive carp.
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Based on a report prosecutors commissioned from a local technological center, the structure does not stop water from leaking into provisional dikes, picking up tailings sediment from the dam burst, and flowing into the Rio Doce river, Pinto said.
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While world leaders debate how to move forward on Paris climate commitments at COP23 in Bonn, Germany, New Brunswick's department of transportation told CTV it is working with the mayors to come up with a plan to fix the dikes.
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PARIS, July 10 (Reuters) - French regulator ASN said in a statement on Wednesday that it had ordered state-controlled utility EDF to reinforce the dikes of the cooling water canal at its Tricastin nuclear plant by end 2022 at the latest.
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" For Pip, the church is where life gives way to death, but also where the peopled world cedes to the marshes — "a dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA said on Monday it failed to obtain stability certificates for at least 17 dams and dikes, as the structures are reviewed following a rupture at a tailings dam at one of its facilities that killed hundreds.
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In those days, the government mobilized work teams to construct earthen dikes along major canals in the delta to keep the salt water out and to foster better conditions for rice growing, said Timothy Gorman, a researcher on the delta at Cornell University.
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Johnson said he and the other researchers were taken aback at "how much of a slam dunk the logic of this could be" - though they emphasized that other forms of flood mitigation, such as levees, dikes and flood walls, remained important as well.
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In New Orleans, they raised the dikes; in New York City, there are plans for an enormous wall around Lower Manhattan; in Florida, walls are going up so fast that parts of the coast are starting to look like a military fortress.
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Since June EDF has reported three Level 2 safety incidents (on a scale where Level 7 is a Fukushima-style major accident), including rusty pipes in its Belleville plant, weak dikes protecting its Tricastin plant from flooding and faulty backup diesel generators at 20 reactors.
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ASN said in a statement that while the dikes are being strengthened, there was a risk of flooding which could lead to a major accident at the plant, which is located along the Rhone river in the heart of France's Provence wine and tourism region.
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For scientists to remain passive and simply try to adapt to these conditions, is the equivalent of trying to combat global warming by buying more air conditioners and building dikes around Manhattan, rather than limiting fluorocarbon emissions and finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels.
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After watching Trumpian populism overwhelm the dikes of ideology during the last primary campaign, Republican lawmakers could have learned something from the experience, and made the discontented working class voters who put Donald Trump in the White House the major beneficiaries of their tax reform.
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"The extent of damage of a major flood event on the isthmus will ripple across Canada, hugely affect our two provinces, and will be devastating to local governments," municipal leaders wrote in a letter to provincial and federal politicians, requesting a meeting to address the dikes.
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It has occurred to me that perhaps TechCrunch pays insufficient attention to slurry, sediment, silt, sludge, mud, and muck; to canals, earthworks, levees, dikes, dredges, and the Army Corps of Engineers; to the vast engineering works, with lifespans measured in decades, that literally reshape our world.
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Across the pond, French authorities have focused on ensuring that the race never begins; they've spent 110 million euros ($122 million) to raise seawalls, strengthen dikes, reinforce flood-proof doors and seals, and create a program to monitor the effects of climate change at nuclear installations.
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Generations of sugar cane farming has altered the chemistry of Florida's biggest lake and a vast system of dikes and dams built to "drain the swamp" and create a retirement wonderland has killed half of the Everglades and put the rest of this vital wetland on life support.
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That does not put one in mind of F.D.R. The Dutch can reach consensus on painful social questions because they've spent the last thousand years working cooperatively to build dikes; the climate accord adopted last year came after a full year of discussion among representatives of all interest groups.
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If you look at a UK Ordnance Survey map, you can see how wet it is: not only bounded by the two rivers and their mud flats, it's veined by hundreds of ditches, streams, dikes, fleets and runnels, most of which can only be crossed using infrequent footbridges.
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