The levee is safe and the river is not expected to compromise the levee.
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Of course, a levee that breaks is far more dangerous than a levee that's too short.
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"Levee, levee, save us from the river," they sang in a YouTube video seven years ago.
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Jon Bel Edwards said was a back levee near Myrtle Grove, and not a levee for the Mississippi River.
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When Category 5 Hurricane Katrina hit, there were 27 levee failures, including the levee protecting the coast from ocean storm surges.
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When Category 8363 Hurricane Katrina hit, there were 86 levee failures, including the levee protecting the coast from ocean storm surges.
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Flood-walls are also often built to supplement levee systems in high-density urban areas where there isn't enough space for a large levee.
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The official levee database run by USACE shows levee heights as low as 18 feet above sea level in some parts of the city.
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New Orleans has two levee systems along the Mississippi RiverTwo levee systems hold back the Mississippi in New Orleans: the East Bank System and the West Bank System.
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But there is also a facet of Levee that is very private, something sneaky about Levee — you don't know what's bottled up inside him, and Jason may have that.
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According to the National Committee on Levee Safety, there are no national policies or standards on levee safety, and there is no full assessment of their condition and performance.
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The Papio‐Missouri River Natural Resources District (P‐MR NRD) has been notified by FEMA, that if the levee is not fixed by 2017, the levee will be de‐certified.
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About 600 acres inside the levee have been converted from farmland to riparian woodlands, and another 700 acres inside and outside the levee are in the process of being restored.
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Officials stressed that the historic water levels rose above the levee, saying the situation was unlike the major failures of the levee system around New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 24.
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Officials stressed that the historic water levels rose above the levee, saying the situation was unlike the major failures of the levee system around New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The levee situation has become so grave that the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the country's levee system a D grade in 13, suggesting $80 billion in investment over 10 years.
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Officials in Hamburg, Iowa, worked quickly to add a temporary five-feet-tall levee to the town's current levee system before the Missouri River crests by Sunday or Monday, as they expect.
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Watching the flooding arrive in surging waves, Richey knew right away: Every wall of water was a levee breaking upriver—and soon the ice and current would take out Fremont's outdated levee, too.
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"The back of Galveston does need levee protection," said Bedient.
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"I had confidence in the levee," Mr. Ogawa, 68, said.
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Sooner or later, however, this levee is going to break.
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Levees can fail, and this will be the biggest test yetIf the river water rises higher than the levee it will spill over, but a levee breach is not just a question of height.
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A hunter wades through water at the edge of a levee.
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In this aerial photo, a temporary levee helps protect Kimmswick, Missouri.
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" The river's levee flood control system, he predicted, would be "fine.
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No one had anticipated Katrina's levee failures or planned for them.
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The tax base isn't there to build a whole new levee.
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Do you know if there was a levee that was breached?
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An Arkansas River levee breached early Friday southeast of the city of Dardanelle, sending water gushing into farmland that already had been saturated by leaks in the levee a day earlier, video from CNN affiliate KARK shows.
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Called a levee wall system, the project includes the construction of a reinforced concrete levee wall, 18-foot-tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150-foot enforcement zone.
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The levee is an ideal place for finding pythons as they sun.
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The area levee is no longer adequate to hold the heavier rainfall.
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Back then, a levee broke and neck-high, muddy water submerged them.
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Here's how the levee system works and how much it can withstand.
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They worry that a local levee or dam could fail in a storm.
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A levee break prompted the evacuation of the small community of Craig, Missouri.
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Take the example of the Feather River West Levee Project in my district.
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Its location is the batture, the area between the river and the levee.
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I climbed the levee that stands between the fort and the Mississippi's floodplains.
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He took his argument to the local board that oversaw the destroyed levee.
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But we may feel the effects of the levee system's decline evens sooner.
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On Wednesday, construction crews raced to repair the gap in the Chikuma levee.
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"Every time they build a levee or raise one, it hurts everybody without a levee," said Peter Allen, an owner of The Loading Dock restaurant in Grafton, which has been closed for much of this spring because of the floods.
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Ordinarily, a storm of this magnitude would not risk overtopping New Orleans' levee system.
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Now, the levee system is way more robust than it was back in 2005.
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Officials warned that floodwaters could rise above a levee and jeopardize thousands of homes.
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Officials warned that floodwater could rise above a levee and jeopardize thousands of homes.
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New Orleans' 17th Street Canal levee cracks, causing water to pour into the city.
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His second LP under that moniker, The Levee, is an exercise in studio experimentation.
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But Brazoria County's levee breach is not expected to impact the flooding in Houston.
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As levees, dams, and bridges broke across Nebraska, Norfolk's levee held without any breaches.
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This lesson was painfully learned during Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failure.
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Once gun went off it was sort of like floodwaters going over the levee.
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Still, few residents expected that a typhoon would break the levee in their lifetimes.
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At the edge of town, a levee along the Missouri River is still broken.
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They warned that Fremont's earthen levee had become overgrown with tall trees—and this meant that, in the event of a major flood carrying ice floes, the trees could be uprooted and tear holes in the levee, allowing floodwaters to course through.
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In November, Customs and Border Protection awarded two contracts for border wall construction there: $145 million for a six-mile levee system in the Border Patrol's McAllen Station area, and $167 million for an eight-mile levee in the Rio Grande Valley sector.
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Crews were able to stop the breach on the river levee by 8:45 p.m.
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We have over 500 miles of levee to provide to reduce the risk of flooding.
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Floodwaters overtopped a levee near Pocahontas, Arkansas and transportation is shut down in certain areas.
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"That is called a bollard wall and that is called a levee wall," Spicer responded.
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Video clips show a Mississippi River levee in Myrtle Grove, Louisiana being overtopped by floodwater.
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Since then, Congress has invested $15 billion in repairing the levee system around New Orleans.
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How do you differ as actors, and how does that affect your performances as Levee?
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All levee floodgates were being closed, along with a giant surge barrier erected after Katrina.
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The chance of overtopping levees seemed greater farther downstream, where the levee walls are lower.
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Early last Thursday, floodwaters near Bartlett, Iowa, overtopped a levee north of David Lueth's house.
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And to report on it nonstop, breathlessly, as if the levee would break any second.
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On Wednesday, even as the river began to subside, the levee broke, inundating the town.
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At 26 feet, Lumberton city officials said, the levee around the river could be overwhelmed.
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At a makeshift camp in Matamoros, tents crowd a muddy levee, housing around 2,500 migrants.
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The sheriff's department said it expected the river to crest the levee by Wednesday evening.
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Authorities blamed a failure of a river levee near the village for the sudden water surge.
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On Monday, the city said a breach in the Elm Point Levee caused multiple road closures.
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Then we closed the levee, and the police came and the politicians started calling us vandals.
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Farmers rushed to patch the damage before the levee fully ruptured, saving nearby homes from flooding.
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Officials warned that floodwaters could rise above a levee and place thousands of homes in jeopardy.
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Residents were evacuated last week when floodwaters breached a levee in the county south of Houston.
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"We've been piecemealing this," said Reggie Dupre, executive director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District.
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Levee systems use earthen embankments, steel or concrete flood-walls, and pumps to hold back floodwaters.
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In 2011, a flood came dangerously close to breaking the levee system upstream from New Orleans.
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Of course, there's a lot more to making a floodplain than just knocking down a levee.
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But Mr. Reinecke was hopeful that a new levee would protect the city from widespread damage.
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The levee was set back some, but not nearly as much as the Corps had proposed.
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And the Army Corps of Engineers recently predicted that our levee system may soon be obsolete.
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Louisiana's levee system stands, for now, as a sinking monument to America's dangerously shortsighted climate policies.
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It should read: The state's leadership initially viewed the levee authority lawsuit as a direct assault.
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If the levee breaches, Illinois Route 16 would flood and the town would be cut off.
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Models show a levee failure could submerge parts of the metropolis under 20 feet of water.
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Others blamed the smaller levee and other federal water policies for the misery they were experiencing.
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This is part of a 6-mile project in Hidalgo County, Texas, that was announced in November to construct and install a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, as well as 18-foot-tall steel bollards on top of the concrete wall.
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Boyd, a hunter and recent West Point graduate, checks his phone during a hike on a levee.
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In Lumberton, North Carolina, officials are rushing to bolster a levee that is in danger of failing.
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To prepare, workers were shoring up at least two areas along the city's levee system, Boyett said.
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But a levee in Terrebonne Parish was overtopped by water for part of the day, officials said.
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On Wednesday, the nearby Black River breached a levee, triggering a flash-flood emergency for the town.
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The improved levee worked this year, until it was finally overtopped by floodwaters that swamped Trantina's business.
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A second levee has "good potential" of overtopping, Patty Thompson with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency said.
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Levee failure in California during heavy rainfall in 2006 triggered emergency state spending to shore up levees.
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A newscast from WWL-TV in New Orleans shows the water overtopping a levee in Myrtle Grove.
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In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused a New Orleans coastal levee to break, releasing a wall of water.
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Workers filled sandbags along the river levee and procured other materials for flood protection, the agency said.
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Floodwaters flowed over the Laurel Ridge levee that acts as a barrier for the Baton Rouge area.
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The barrier in this region is a combination of levee wall and bollard fencing affixed on top.
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All those numbers matter because the Nutwood levee, just south of town, tops out at 38 feet.
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In 893, Hurricane Betsy brought severe flooding to the neighborhood after the levee protection system was breached.
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A diversion is a set of gates in a river levee that can be opened and closed.
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So does the memory of the way town saved itself, said Steve Gonzalez, the local levee commissioner.
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Besides the levee near Dardanelle, one in Logan County along state Highway 25 has been overtopped, she said.
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A levee in the San Joaquin Valley was breached on Monday night, forcing 500 people from their homes.
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The latest storms hitting California have caused flooding, levee breaks, sinkholes and concerns about the state's dam safety.
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Local firefighters heard a nearby levee shudder, according to Jenny Rich, a San Joaquin county public information officer.
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Workers also shored up and raised the levee system in places with beams, sheet metal and other barriers.
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The question for the court is whether it's strong enough to bill an oil company for a levee.
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In the general election last June, this political levee was expected to break in favour of the Conservatives.
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That order came just four minutes before confirmation of the first levee failure, on a small Takamagawa river.
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That quantity of water will test the Mississippi River levee system, since the river is already abnormally high.
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For local officials, the main concern was the state of the earthen levee system that is decades old.
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And since 1975, the Army Corps of Engineers has offered a variety of ways to plug the levee.
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His home stood near the Chikuma River in Nagano Prefecture, separated from the rising waters by a levee.
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A little over an hour later, the levee burst, submerging his home and sweeping away everything in it.
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After the levee broke, the Pokémon Company submitted takedown request after takedown request, but Gigantamax Machamp was uncontainable.
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Because the Brazos is rising, the creek backed up and poured through two low spots on the levee.
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In Logan County, the sheriff posted photos of a levee along Highway 309 that has overtopped due to flooding.
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Those outside of levee protection are being asked to voluntarily evacuate as floodgates in the city are being closed.
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I was a police officer in New Orleans and was standing on the levee at the NOLA/JP line.
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A levee breached south of Houston and 15 more inches of rainfall are expected in the flood-ravaged area.
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"I'm a local," she said, walking on a bike path on the levee with a beer in her hand.
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Many residents felt that the MRGO had contributed to the levee failures, which was later supported by engineers' assessments.
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But fencing and levee walls, or even a "border wall system," aren't what President Trump ran on in 2016.
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BRANDON I'm certainly much more verbose than Jason, more extroverted, and I think there's some of that in Levee.
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The vehicle then apparently traveled down the levee and outside of camera range before it became stuck, authorities said.
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Soon after, a nearby levee broke, and water surged to shoulder height within a half-hour, Ms. Komada said.
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"So far, the levee system has performed well," the mayor of Sand Springs, Jim Spoon, said in a statement.
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The Oro Loma living levee, just south of Oakland, was completed in 2017 and incorporates about 70,000 marsh plants.
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There are steel beams on top of a concrete flood levee that stretches for 20 miles in Hidalgo County.
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The first of those projects, the levee wall in the Rio Grande, is slated to break ground in February.
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But after being told by the city that the levee could be overwhelmed, the family didn't hesitate to leave.
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When the sea breached the levee 12 years ago, he took his family back to their home in Sulawesi.
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The town had long been protected by an approved levee as high as 18 feet designed to block floodwaters.
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After the 1993 flood, the people of Prairie du Rocher strengthened their levee with the help of federal dollars.
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What do they tell you about how levee systems are supposed to work — and what happens when they fail?
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Scott was charged with the December 10, 1988, shooting death of Anne Levee, whom he is also accused of raping.
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To make it out of the neighborhood, the vessel had to cross over the powerful current of an overflowing levee.
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The National Weather Service reported some of the region's larger rivers were running at record high levels, causing levee breaks.
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In Arkansas, Rapert began pursuing better levee policies four years ago, after flooding on his farmland along the Arkansas River.
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Footage from local authorities showed water inundating fields as it spilled over the side of the levee, which Louisiana Gov.
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The Alliance refinery faces a greater flooding threat and is outside the flood protection levee system along the Mississippi River.
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NPPD said its workers have filled sandbags along the river levee and procured other materials and supplies for flood protection.
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While Nate may have lacked Katrina's punch, the levee system to protect the parish is much improved in recent years.
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Unlike a levee or a spillway, built to stop the river from flooding, it was put up to stop time.
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That dune, which rose more than twenty feet above the water, looked more like a levee than any natural beachscape.
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In 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed the New Orleans region and killed 1,500 people with high winds and levee-bursting floods.
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The mayor and others in Grafton blame Sny Island and other rural levee districts for some of their flooding woes.
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In Missouri, Mr. Bullock pointed out a levee that last week had been split open and consumed by the river.
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In Nagano Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, a levee burst on the Chikuma River, flooding a wide area of Nagano City.
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In Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, a levee burst on the Chikuma river, flooding a wide area of Nagano city.
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The town leadership rejected taking buyouts at that time and instead chose to rebuild the town and fix the levee.
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Now, workers are racing against rising flood waters to shore up the city's main levee system before the river crests.
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Hamburg residents held back the Missouri River in 2011, then had to take down the makeshift levee that saved them.
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In January, detectives interviewed Scott again, and he allegedly denied knowing Levee or ever having any physical contact with her body.
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That second flush races up to the lip of the bowl and you're like OH GOD PLEASE DON'T BREACH THE LEVEE.
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River waters tore through the area's aging levee system that was supposed to protect Adams' land and the town of Peru.
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Go deeper: Barry set to push Louisiana rivers to near-record flood stages Why Barry risks overtopping New Orleans' levee system
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As shelters become packed to capacity and rescue efforts continue, officials in Brazoria County (south of Houston) announced a levee breach.
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Go deeper: In photos: Tropical Storm Barry's impact as it crawls across Louisiana Why Barry risks overtopping New Orleans' levee system
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The lawmaker discovered that the nearby levee hadn't been repaired after a 1990 breach and that its governing board was defunct.
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Three Missouri towns were told to evacuate on Thursday after a levee breached along a creek connected to the Mississippi River.
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Water has already gone over the top of one levee, prompting people to evacuate areas nearby, the office of Illinois Gov.
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But even with the levee system, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell warned that there would still be flooding, the AP reported.
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Titled "Subway Therapy," the installation lining the underground walls beneath Manhattan's Union Square was the idea of artist Matthew "Levee" Chavez.
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Bruce Rauner toured communities in Alexander County, the southernmost part of the state, where levee breaches have already sent people fleeing.
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Governor McCrory, addressing reporters in Raleigh on Monday, said a levee breach before dawn had endangered about 1,500 residents in Lumberton.
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Faced with the costs of rebuilding their levee practically from scratch, he reasoned, they might be willing to move it back.
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"We'll build that levee and vigilantly watch throughout the night in case flood does come," said Cathy Crain, the Hamburg mayor.
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Only 10 states keep a list of their levees, and fewer than half have a state agency responsible for levee safety.
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And a levee failure southwest of Pacific Junction forced the Missouri River to backfill, pushing water north and flooding the town.
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Still, he was spared the levee-bursting flooding that put hundreds of farms underwater, so he counts himself among the lucky.
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Instead of making preparations, they said they helped Adams and other neighbors who lived closer to the levee move their possessions.
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The commission asked the group to provide additional details about construction and halt the use of motorized vehicles on the levee.
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Further along the Texas Gulf Coast, authorities at one point warned that a levee could break near Beaumont in Jefferson County.
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Even if the taller levee had remained in place, Colonel Startzell said he believed Hamburg would have still flooded this week.
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"The Service is concerned the levee wall in Hidalgo County could be subject to catastrophic natural flood events, leaving terrestrial wildlife trapped behind the levee wall to drown or starve," a regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service wrote in a 2017 letter to a branch chief of the Customs and Border Protection division of DHS.
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Automakers and foreign governments have criticized Trump for this, noting such a levee would boost car costs and hurt sales and jobs.
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Levee was shot "multiple" times and medical examiners determined, "one of which was determined to have been immediately incapacitating," the documents allege.
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A few years later his leadership came under fire with the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failure.
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Guorui also expects the South Levee Bay in Foshan in southern China to start contributing CNY100 million in rental income in 2017.
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But they're also to blame for an estimated 81 percent of levee breaches in California's Central Valley, according to a 2015 report.
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So too were some 0003 residents of Lewis and Clark Village in neighboring Buchanan County after a nearby levee failed, officials said.
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Across California, residents were evacuated when local rivers flooded, including a small Northern California town that experienced a levee breach Monday night.
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Although the rain began to ease in Houston Tuesday, the overflow from two dams and a levee threatened to make things worse.
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He said in a statement on social media however, that there was still a serious threat of storm surge outside levee areas.
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Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans evacuated some 240 residents who were not protected by its levee system as the storm approached.
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The Army Corps estimates that levee repairs could top $1 billion in the Missouri River basin, where most of the breaches occurred.
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LEVEE BREACHES Floodwaters have already swamped large stretches of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, drowning livestock and damaging crop land along the Missouri.
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On Sunday, parts of the city of Lismore in northeast NSW were evacuated after the Wilsons River threatened to break its levee.
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The water rushing by my feet as I sip my drink atop the levee reminds me I live in such a place.
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To Mr. Remus, 2011's destructive flood represented a rare opportunity to rethink the Missouri River levee system to accommodate more floodwater.
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In Illinois, some rural levee districts have been accused of building beyond their authorized height, a point of bitterness for those downstream.
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Water spilled over a levee along the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, also known as the Industrial Canal, in New Orleans on Aug.
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Others have suggested a middle ground, with more robust protections but not a levee or wall that would block the river view.
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The builder was a congenial man a few years younger than me who lived across the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward.
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"This is the one low point in Lumberton's levee system," Corey Walters, Lumberton's deputy director of public works, told CNN on Friday.
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The county, which is south of Houston, announced on its Twitter account early Tuesday that the Columbia Lakes levee was breached. pic.twitter.
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The garden soon vanished under "briars and seedlings" as well as "invasive Norway maples with their greedy root systems," Ms. Levee writes.
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High-maintenance plants specified by the Olmsted office have been replaced with equally luxuriant flowers known for "horticultural dependability," Ms. Levee notes.
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Ironically, it was building a new levee system in 2002 that pushed the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe to seek a new home.
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Dupre said it became clear that the $300 million cost of extending the levee system to the "island" would be too high.
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Construction to build a new levee wall system in Texas is scheduled to begin in February, the first extension of existing barriers.
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But money needed to fix up the levee never came, and, by Wednesday, the town, including much of Main Street, was underwater.
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The flooding began last Tuesday when a temporary levee failed, sending water into Davenport buildings and flooding vehicles that had been left behind.
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Elsewhere, the California infrastructure list also includes a project to reduce the flooding risk to the city of Marysville and a levee project.
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If water rushes into a river too quickly, "it can knock the levee out -- and then it starts eroding the riverbank," she said.
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Video also showed water getting over a second levee in Plaquemines Parish, where fingers of land extend deep into the Gulf of Mexico.
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I stood on top of the levee so I could get a good signal and managed to get a call to my wife.
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Early Friday, the river there was at 31.33 feet, just shy of flowing over the top of Elwood's levee system, according to forecasters.
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Still, levee breaches in Alexander County, on the southern tip of Illinois, sent some residents fleeing and left others surrounded by water Saturday.
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First, they assume that this time the Army Corps of Engineers' work can be trusted, and the levee system will not fail again.
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Colvin was standing on the levee on the North Fork of the Elkhorn, watching the water rise in the city's flood-control channel.
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On one occasion last November, the reading spiked at the levee and tested 0.23 times the recommended cancer risk, according the EPA data.
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Chavez, who goes by Levee, sits in the Union Square station with a card table full of self-stick notes and a pen.
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Weatherman John Levee, one of the most prominent posters in the sub, said he's drawn to the sense of camaraderie in the town.
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They speak with rage about the shoddy levee system: It was the Army Corps's failure, not the 2005 hurricane, that flooded the city.
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"Even if the levee is fixed, every time there's a heavy rain or a typhoon, my chest is going to tighten," he said.
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The Riverfront Levee exhibit will be a 5-block scale model of what the downtown St. Louis Mississippi riverfront looked like in 1852.
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The levee system along the Arkansas River "has not seen this type of record flooding" before, Hutchinson said in his six-page letter.
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"We'll be working with the local officials in the levee districts as well as our engineering and modeling team to evaluate the system, what will occur with a 20-foot elevation in the river and if there's any actions need to be taken to prevent that water from going over the levee," Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Ricky Boyette told 4WWL.
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In Missouri, a levee failure along the Mississippi caused a mandatory evacuation in the West Quincy area, the Marion County Sheriff's Office told CNN.
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In Central California, a levee breach in the town of Manteca in San Joaquin County forced the evacuation of several hundred people Monday night.
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It was still in effect Tuesday morning as crews worked to repair a levee on the San Joaquin River as rain continued to fall.
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The rainfall and flooding have put pressure on the areas' levee systems, with two northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, already topped, NBC News reported.
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So he sponsored a law allowing local officials to re-establish dormant levee boards and requiring annual reports to be sent to the state.
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Although Rapert's local levee got fixed, he said most of the districts haven't filed reports, raising questions about whether their levees are being maintained.
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Torrential downpours from the storm would only add to the flow, raising the chance of overtopping levee walls, especially downstream where barriers are lower.
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Nearly 1,500 residents of Lumberton, North Carolina, are in danger after a levee breach, Governor Pat McCrory told reporters Monday, according to the Times.
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Geib said a levee near his farm broke at the weekend, and he saw at least 10 levees in the county that have broken.
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Geib said a levee near his farm broke over the weekend, and he saw at least 10 levees in the county that have broken.
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Already, the Corps of Engineers has had to rebuild sections of the new levee system that had sunk six inches below their original height.
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With these marshes gone, the Levee Authority said in the suit, storms were allowed to move inland unimpeded, causing extensive damage to the landscape.
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Roughly 35 tribal members reportedly protested along a levee on the Rio Grande River, as construction equipment was off-loaded at the butterfly habitat.
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"Residents who live inside the levee system should prepare to take shelter with essential supplies including food, water and medications," the mayor said Thursday.
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The administration keeps asking (so far unsuccessfully) for an extra few billion dollars to build a few dozen miles of fencing and levee walls.
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A river levee breach would be an entirely different type of flooding disaster than what occurred during Hurricane Katrina, but possibly no less devastating.
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In northwestern Sacramento, for instance, the residents of Natomas supported a $1-billion, 26-mile levee improvement program in the hope of lower premiums.
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BRANDON Levee is all those things, and, in addition, he's a clown of sorts, who uses clowning to turn the tide in his favor.
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"When I think about how big of a deal this is, I think about the Led Zeppelin song 'When the Levee Breaks,'" Underhill said.
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" The strength of the city's improved hurricane defense system, he predicted, "is going to make this a minimal event, at least behind the levee.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a voluntary evacuation notice for areas outside of the New Orleans levee system ahead of Tropical Storm Gordon.
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A weekend levee breach flooded one of the city's well fields along the Platte River, causing power outages in and around the well fields.
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The department has proposed building a 28-mile levee wall in one area and an additional six-mile barrier system near Rio Grande City.
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The underpass left a gap in the surrounding levee, which allowed water from Lumber River to flood into the southwest part of the city.
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The charter school system in New Orleans wouldn't be what it is today had it not been for Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures.
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Valmeyer, an agricultural village of 21993,21722 people, is separated from the Mississippi by lush farmland and a grassy berm that serves as a levee.
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It took 32 years, but in 1975, the town got a proposal for a $3.5 million levee to protect their $1 million worth of property.
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"We have a levee response team, a sand bagging team, teams to check on what walkers checking on the levees find," resident Paula Martin said.
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In one instance, they forced the closure of a levee along a branch of the Euphrates River to let the water levels rise for irrigation.
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But video showed water overtopping a levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans, where fingers of land extend deep into the Gulf of Mexico.
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The latest: Arkansas officials called for 160 homes in Yell County to evacuate on Friday as a levee breach brought floodwaters to over 40 feet.
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LEVEE SYSTEM COMPROMISED Several other communities in that area of northwest Missouri have also been evacuated, the Army Corps of Engineers said at a briefing.
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The Big Easy can breathe a bit easier The good news: Fears of catastrophic storm surges overwhelming New Orleans' levee system didn't materialize this weekend.
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That has resulted in catastrophic flooding, evidenced by river gauges in the city reporting severe flood levels and a nearby levee failing under intense pressure.
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Still, levee breaches in Alexander County, on the southern tip of Illinois, sent some residents fleeing and left others surrounded by water over the weekend.
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Levee systems rely on embankments, flood-walls, and pumps Most levees are trapezoid-shaped, elevated embankments that separate bodies of water from inhabited flood plains.
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Different types of river levees can run parallel the main river channel, encircle a protected area, or provide backup or protection to an existing levee.
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My bill provides for new border fencing and levee walls in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as well as secondary fencing in San Diego.
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The potential for disaster is greater when a levee is overtopped—or worse, breached—by tidal Lake Pontchartrain or the river, which bookend the city.
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Some of Galveston County's petrochemical facilities are surrounded by a 16-foot-tall (5 m) levee system that is not close to breaching, Henry said.
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The Domino family lived in a narrow shotgun house on Jourdan Avenue that no longer exists, within sight of the eastern levee of the canal.
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In 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina levee breaches was even more catastrophic, emptying the Lower Ninth Ward of much of its population, including Mr. Domino.
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Perhaps most notoriously, the Corps's poor administration of Mississippi River levee systems led to catastrophic failures when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
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In Mississippi, the state's emergency management agency was on the scene of a potential levee failure in Yazoo County Tuesday, the agency posted on Facebook.
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Against the night sky, I could see people walking their dogs along the levee, and beyond that, the river, and faint lights from the city.
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A levee designed to protect the community of Columbia Lakes, 40 miles southwest of Houston, from the Brazos River was breached, Brazoria County officials said.
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All residents of Hornick, Iowa, were evacuated after a levee broke due to the heavy rains in the region, the county's emergency management agency tweeted.
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Matthew Chavez, a street artist known as Levee, had started the project with a simple prompt — "express yourself" — spelled out at the 14th Street installation.
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In Lumberton, where residents scrambled to plug the levee system, parts of Interstate 95 will remain closed until the Lumber River drops below 21 feet.
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When the money could not be found, the levee was cut back to its original size and residents were left gazing nervously toward the riverbank.
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In 2004, the federal government gave the levee an accreditation that meant that people living in town did not need flood insurance, said Mr. Cole.
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In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell declared a state of emergency Monday night and called for voluntary evacuations for parts of the city outside levee protection.
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Valmeyer was especially hard hit by the 1993 flood, which caused the Mississippi River to break through a levee and fill the town like a bathtub.
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As the swollen Mississippi River spilled over the levee, the town of Valmeyer, Illinois, was buried beneath 500 feet of water that stuck around for months.
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Officials in Lafourche Parish also posted a recommended evacuation notice for parts of the parish, due to overtopping of the levee system in Point Aux Chenes.
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They live right along the river, separated from the water by an earthen levee, less than ten feet above the river at this time of year.
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Plaquemines Parish, a low-lying area south of New Orleans, evacuated some 240 residents who were not protected by its levee system as the storm approached.
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In the spring of 210, the EPA installed six canisters near the plant -- including at the hospital, levee and two local schools -- to collect air samples.
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Last week, agents in the McAllen area encountered a group of nearly 215 migrants walking toward a river levee, the largest such group seen this year.
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On the far side of the levee, where low fields run to the riverbank, hundreds of apple trees were covered to their crowns in muddy water.
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The border wall already exists in Brownsville, perched on a levee an irregular distance inland from the Rio Grande; in some neighborhoods, it slices through backyards.
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States of emergency have been declared in Mississippi and Louisiana, and a voluntary evacuation notice was issued in New Orleans for areas outside the levee system.
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White Americans are also subject to "out of control" policing, he writes, because "policing of the Colony has breached the levee and flooded the Nation" too.
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It will also include vegetation removal along a 150-foot zone, technology, lighting, video surveillance and an all-weather patrol road parallel to the levee wall.
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The river had inundated Lumberton two years before, during Hurricane Matthew, and city officials scrambled this week to plug a hole in the town's levee system.
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Islands and camps inside the levee structures would be expected to flood, with some backup flooding from rivers that flow into the Mississippi, the NWS said.
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In Forest City, downstream from Craig in Holt County, residents young and old hurried to fill sandbags to bolster their local levee, hoping to stave off disaster.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to unleash the algae-rich water into local rivers and canals to relieve some of the stress on the levee.
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Katrina: New Orleans' 2000th Street Canal levee — sealed after it was the first to break and allow water into the city — is reopened to pump out water.
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Barber, 36, used to live on Forstall Street, just east of the Industrial Canal, where a catastrophic levee breach sent a tidal wave into the impoverished neighborhood.
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The changes followed national outrage over the administration's botched emergency response to catastrophic flooding from the systematic failure of the federally constructed levee system in New Orleans.
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The flood insurance rate maps for New Orleans that were in force in 2005, when the federal levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, dated from the 1980s.
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"Let's say a Category 5 (is) coming into New Orleans; we would have Katrina again, because the levee system was built for a Category 3," Honoré said.
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Farmers in southern Missouri, who experience severe flooding, have long supported a plan to close a quarter-mile gap in a large levee along the Mississippi River.
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"I saw an opossum last night out on the levee and it was the first small animal I've seen in probably five or six months," Aycock said.
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All this requires co-ordination between different levels of government, individuals and companies, not least to prevent one man's levee from diverting water to a defenceless neighbour.
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The rain had slowed down overnight, he said, giving officials another chance to try and plug the gap in the levee system -- but Walters didn't sound optimistic.
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Ms. Levee had attended women's groups and conferences, but HOWL felt different: The setting, work ethic and familial "circle of aunties" brought her back the next year.
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According to the nonprofit, the local police department informed them that they will have "no access" to their "own land south of the levee" as of Monday.
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The adjacent Mokelumne River, swollen by the intense storms that have drenched the state this winter, caused a levee to break, allowing the water to rush in.
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Ms. Levee had attended women's groups and conferences, but HOWL felt different: The setting, work ethic and familial "circle of aunties" brought her back the next year.
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"There could be additional problems in Reno if a levee at Idlewild Park breaks and lets up to another foot of water head downtown," the KOLO report said.
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San Francisco (CNN)About 500 residents of a Northern California community were under evacuation orders after a river levee became damaged amid rising water levels and pounding storms.
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma's second-largest city, the state's National Guard conducted round-the-clock patrols of the 20-mile (32-km) levee system that protects some 10,000 people.
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But however much Abe spends, a severe labour shortage means his government will struggle to repair levee breaks and other damage across a broad swath of the country.
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More than 40 levee breaches have been confirmed in the agency's Omaha district, encompassing the hardest-hit parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, officials told a news briefing.
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Three years prior to Hurricane Katrina, I worked on a newspaper series documenting the weaknesses in the New Orleans levee system, and warning of the city's growing vulnerability.
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Marianna Trevino-Wright (left) director of the National Butterfly Center, is confronted by a woman on the levee during a demonstration protesting the proposed border wall on Feb.
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The local government agency in charge of protection from hurricanes took the dirt from just under an acre of Jarreau&aposs property to build up a nearby levee.
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Workers also used Hesco baskets, a type of flood barrier, to add 3 feet (almost 1 meter) to the river levee at the Corps' headquarters in New Orleans.
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Mike Parson also has appointed a task force to examine the state's levee system, explore ways of better managing flood waters and prioritize state funding for flood recovery.
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Most of them owned nothing else but the clothes on their backs and the little cardboard shacks they made on the levee of the Rio Grande for shelter.
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He said numerous levee breaches upstream have eased the flood threat to communities downstream, he said, because there ends up being less water flowing through the river channel.
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The Mississippi has topped many a levee just in the last couple decades, including in 2011 when it simultaneously flooded Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
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Take Me to the River Elizabeth Kolbert, in her article about rising sea levels, ascribes much of Louisiana's disappearing coastline to the levee system ("Under Water," April 1st).
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With Harvey producing horrific scenes reminiscent of those following Katrina and the levee breaches that flooded the city, New Orleanians watched with a mixture of horror and empathy.
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"There is still a serious threat of storm surge for areas outside of levee protection and residents should continue to monitor local news and take precautions," the statement read.
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Big Business is scared of what employee freedom means, and not because it would mean a catastrophic breach of the IP levee, as their lobbyists would have you believe.
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The river bulled through a levee in Thebes, Illinois, early Saturday, sending water rushing as far as six miles away from the Mississippi's usual banks, CNN affiliate KFVS reported.
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What it could look like: Sean Spicer told reporters in a May press briefing that the White House was requesting designs for a levee wall and a bollard wall.
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Nearly 50 levee breaches have been confirmed in the Army Corp's Omaha district alone, encompassing the hardest hit parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, officials told a news briefing.
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It was less-frenzied in Paris this year, with four works finding buyers at the preview, including the Rubens-inspired "La Main Levee," for €14,500 to a Swiss buyer.
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The money will allow for roughly 21625 miles of fencing in the Rio Grande Valley sector: 2900 miles of levee pedestrian fencing and 220006 miles of primary pedestrian fencing.
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The typhoon had brought record-setting rains that caused a levee to break on a nearby river, unleashing floodwaters that filled the first floor of his building, destroying everything.
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A United States-Mexico treaty prohibits building a wall or levee in the Rio Grande floodplain, so the map shows the wall being built well north of the river.
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A levee in Texas's Brazoria County has been breached, with local officials urging residents to "get out now" as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to hammer the Lone Star State.
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The leaks start really flowing a few weeks leading up to the event, and in the last few days before WWDC, the pipes burst, the dam gives, the levee breaks.
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"You've got some levee breaks here and there but you always have those when you get heavy flooding," said Doug Carlson, a spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources.
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Authorities who recovered the truck said it appeared that it was driven down a levee and became mired in mud, with a single set of footprints walking away from it.
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Eventually, relief came, from the river's perspective at least, when it broke through the Monarch Levee and flooded the Gumbo Bottoms in what is now known as the Chesterfield Valley.
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Mandatory evacuation orders were issued across the region in low-lying areas and those outside public levee protection, according to the governor's office, while some areas had voluntary evacuation warnings.
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What people forget about Katrina – and many never fully understood – is that the catastrophe stemmed from fatal flaws in a levee system constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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The river tore through a levee in Thebes, Illinois, early Saturday, sending water rushing as far as 6 miles away from the Mississippi's usual banks, CNN affiliate KFVS-TV reported.
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Though New Orleans' levee walls are 20 feet high, forecasters predict the river will crest at 19 feet, leaving just a foot to spare before water pours into the city.
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Shin's Levee Proposal for Louis Valentino Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn (2018) converts discarded denim jeans into sandbags; two prototypes — bunker-like walls of imbricated denim — embody the proposal's makeshift practicality.
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This isn't the case for all the old tracks, though — "When the Levee Breaks," sampled on "Don't Hurt Yourself," sounds so good I almost forget I don't like Led Zeppelin.
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But only after the catastrophic levee breaches — which made schools unusable even if most students had not fled the city — did it move to take over most of the schools.
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When the levee was constructed in the 1960s, the Corps of Engineers estimated that it would cost $803 million—$1.4 million of which would have to come from the city.
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At that time, officials feared that in a worst-case scenario, parts of the levee system could "slide into the river" if the earthen barriers became too saturated with floodwaters.
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Several hundred residents near breaches in a levee in hard-hit Alexander County in southern Illinois chose to stay put rather than leave their homes as a precaution, Thompson said.
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Officials said Friday that they expected waters to top the Red Chute Levee, but that it was too soon to say by how much or what damage they could cause.
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The levee road ended at the Mississippi River, next to a man fishing and a faded sign indicating that the area used to be the landing point of a ferry.
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Virginia's Department of Transportation bulldozed much of the old downtown and routed U.S. 46003 through it, built on top of a levee protecting what was left of Grundy's old center.
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Dusk along the Tar River, which flooded Princeville, N.C., in October after water induced by Hurricane Matthew breached a levee and in 483 when Hurricane Floyd barreled through the area.
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Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, situated on a river bend behind a tall levee in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri, expected no flood-related disruptions, an airport official said.
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"The fissure that opened on April 30 will become a crack, and that crack is what is going to break the levee," Lopez told reporters from Spain's Caracas diplomatic residence.
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The Department of Homeland Security says construction will begin on the first new segment — six miles of reinforced concrete levee wall topped with steel bollards in Hidalgo County — in February.
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Authorities who recovered the truck said the vehicle apparently drove down the levee outside the range of the surveillance video, and then became stuck in the mud where it was found.
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Sacramento County emergency services official Mary Jo Flynn said water was expected to start spill over the levee, flooding low-lying roads and buildings with up to 1 foot of water.
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About 22017,22 people in Wilton, a rural community near Sacramento, were asked to leave their homes Tuesday evening, as emergency crews worked to try to bolster a Cosumnes River levee. Wow!
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Since then, New Orleans has been on high alert about calamitous flooding, including possible levee topping due to Barry, but those local concerns have largely abated as the storm has developed.
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Flooding in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma has caused thousands to evacuate, as recent levee breaches along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers create new waterways that have spread into homes and businesses.
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In 2013, the South Louisiana Flood Protection and Levee Authority filed suit against 97 oil and gas companies for damages to the landscape caused by a series of strong Gulf storms.
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Henry Cuellar (D), who represents a Texas border district, to build low-lying vehicle barriers and levee walls along the Rio Grande River as a compromise to break the budget impasse.
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And Levee goes from his best day ever to his worst possible day in the course of this play, so I'm relishing every single moment we have to play this guy.
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Pat McCrory of North Carolina said Monday that an urgent rescue effort was underway in Lumberton, where a levee breach in the wake of Hurricane Matthew forced people to their rooftops.
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A higher, more permanent levee, built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s, protects about 1,000 acres in the core of the project, back from the rivers.
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That includes 85033 miles of new fencing and 28 miles of new levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, in addition to 14 miles of secondary fencing in San Diego. Rep.
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The river similarly inundated Lumberton with floodwaters in 2016 during Hurricane Matthew because of a gap in the surrounding levee, which allowed water to flood the southwest part of the city.
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At the McCormack-Williamson Tract, after the levee was breached two weeks ago the Nature Conservancy made a cut at the opposite end to allow the river waters to flow through.
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CreditCreditHilary Swift for The New York Times HAMBURG, Iowa — A makeshift levee had once saved the town of Hamburg from floodwaters, and so residents began a desperate fight to keep it.
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Last week, the river had spilled into farmland at the town's edges and was licking at the rim of Valmeyer's levee, threatening to pour into still-occupied homes in the bottoms.
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This year, people in the region will use a similar tactic to save Prairie du Rocher, said Mr. Gonzalez, though the hope is to blast the levee at a higher point.
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The weir, something between a dam and a levee, lets dangerously high water spill over its top into a long, narrow, floodplain filled with rice paddies, grain fields, and other row crops.
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John Campbell, acting chief at the corporate communications office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville, supports an infrastructure plan to fix the levee system and solve all these problems.
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He said already-flooded neighborhoods there may be in greater danger as the Army Corps of Engineers continues to release water into the adjacent Buffalo Bayou to prevent dam and levee failures.
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Living next to a levee on the Mississippi River's east bank, Gerard Griffin, 70, sees melting polar ice caps and subsiding land as real threats, but is suspicious of efforts to help.
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Three days after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas, the stubborn, slow-moving storm wreaked more havoc when it caused Houston's Addicks Reservoir to overflow and breached a levee in nearby Brazoria County.
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Graves, a moderate Republican, served for years Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, helping push through a multibillion-dollar coastal restoration and levee program following Hurricane Katrina, according to E&E News.
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What's more, residents in low-lying areas paid less than $1 million in flood insurance each year; a new levee, the city reasoned, would take at least a generation to pay for.
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Chinese-language posts on Twitter, which is blocked in China, included pictures and videos purporting to show the devastation in the village of Daxian, which was inundated after a nearby levee burst.
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It would amount to 32 miles of new fencing and 28 miles of new levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, as well as 14 miles of secondary fencing in San Diego.
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Godrey Garza Jr., the former general manager of Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1, negotiated a deal in which he earned 1.5 percent from every dollar spent on the levee-fence project.
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Several areas in the Midwest experienced record flooding this past week, with high water on Saturday causing more levee breaches on the Missouri River, prompting widespread evacuations and isolating neighborhoods and towns.
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Emergency officials said there were as many as 30 levee breaches in Atchison and Holt Counties, and that the breaks brought walls of water rushing into tiny towns like Craig and Watson.
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Much of the action of "Where Chimneys Are Seen" takes place in the shadow of a towering levee that doesn't keep the river from flooding the neighborhood when the rains are heavy.
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But planners now imagine a much worse scenario: 16 inches of rain over two days, resulting in more than a dozen levee breaches and leaving Naganuma drowning under 65 feet of water.
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Tom MacNeil, an owner of a real estate brokerage in the town, said residents told him that the breach had occurred in a levee alongside a creek that flows into the Brazos.
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For me and for so many others, Toni Morrison was that first crack in the levee — the one who freed the truth about black lives, sending it rushing out into the world.
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For context, Congress appropriated $445 million for 25 miles of levee fencing in the Rio Grande Valley and $251 million to replace 14 miles of existing secondary fencing in the San Diego sector.
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This week, we commemorate 11 years since Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures, which flooded 80% of New Orleans, damaged one million homes and displaced a million residents along the Gulf Coast.
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A back levee nearby along the Jefferson Lake Canal (which is part of a system controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers) has also been overtopped, officials said during a press conference.
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In Hamilton City, California, The Nature Conservancy is working with the Army Corps of Engineers to reduce flood damage and restore ecosystems through levee setbacks and reconnecting 85033,400 acres of Sacramento River floodplain.
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Graves, a moderate Republican, served for years on Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, helping push through a multibillion-dollar coastal restoration and levee program following Hurricane Katrina, according to E&E News.
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We receded from drinking beer on the levee with our friends (this was New Orleans, don't judge) and soon spent our weekend nights watching movies and cooking dinner at one of our houses.
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In Fukushima Prefecture, where a huge earthquake and tsunami caused the Daiichi nuclear power plant to melt down in 2011, a burst levee flooded the banks of the Abukuma River after heavy rains.
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Last year, the Corps of Engineers completed another proposal to extend the levee, which officials with the corps say would have at least reduced the latest destruction, but it has not been funded.
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And in Lumberton, North Carolina -- a city submerged by Hurricane Matthew in 2150 -- residents are bracing for potential disaster as the Lumber River seeps through a patched-up gap in the levee system.
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Floodwaters were slopping over the top of the the Laurel Ridge levee, which protects the parish in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area from the Amite River, according to the Ascension Parish Homeland Security Office.
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In border communities like Hidalgo City, where an 18-foot bollard fence already starts and stops in sections along the levee system, they just don't believe Trump's wall is feasible—at least not here.
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More bad news: "The residents have to recognize that they have a residual risk from the levee they have right now, if you have a Katrina-like event, or something bigger," Galloway told me.
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Part of that symbolism is how fundamentally the project's approach to managing water differs from the ineffective and already sinking $14.6 billion levee system built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after Katrina.
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A border wall that he reluctantly agreed to put on his land will soon divide this Texan family from the whole scene: the levee, a lake, an onion field and all of those birds.
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To get a sense of the ecological challenges facing the Everglades, drive along the top of the levee that encircles the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, a teardrop-shaped enclave on the swamp's northeastern boundary.
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"The levees have a lot of pressure on them," Tatum said, adding that a breach two days ago in a levee west of Miller City in the county has reached a quarter-mile wide.
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Tom Waters, the chairman of the Missouri Levee and Drainage District Association, which advocates for landowners and others along the rivers, called for easing federal regulations and building bigger flood protection in rural areas.
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The wall could have a serious, in some cases deadly, impact on other species in the region, including: Walls and levee walls in this region could pose a serious flooding hazard too, says Millis.
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Although the pope did not enter the U.S., residents in El Paso stood on a levee that ran along the bank of the river, getting as close as possible, without crossing borders, the Times reports.
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That began to change in 2013, with the filing of an audacious lawsuit by a New Orleans-area levee authority that sought to make dozens of energy companies pay for the damage they had caused.
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Nate, a Category 21.24 hurricane, the weakest on a five-category scale used by meteorologists, was churning toward the central Gulf of Mexico as New Orleans evacuated some residents from areas outside its levee system.
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About 210 people voluntarily evacuated from the small city of Winthrop and Lewis and Clark Village in Buchanan County, Missouri, after an area levee was breached on Thursday, said local emergency management coordinator Bill Brinton.
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"It looks pretty out here, but a storm comes along and half the land leaves," said Nicky Alfonso, 23.4, a commercial fisherman docked at Pointe à la Hache between the Gulf and a river levee.
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Maybe the government can promise to pay fees in perpetuity, in effect "renting" the repaired levee or waterworks — but that makes it even clearer that we're basically engaged in a gratuitous handout to select investors.
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"The last time the river was this high was back in the 1920s before the levee and floodway systems were developed," Jeff Graschel, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service's Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center.
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Yet by siting 25 miles of border wall on top of the river levee abutting the cemetery, the government threatened to "completely destroy" Eli Jackson, said Ramiro Ramirez, a descendant of the cemetery's original founders.
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Outspoken Galveston residents have good reason to be skeptical of USACE-designed levees, as a $20193 billion levee system recently completed in New Orleans is already sinking and is expected to be ineffective by 2023.
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Even if the Nutwood levee holds back the waters this weekend, Ms. Hardin said she was still concerned about its long-term stability, given all the water it has had to contain in recent months.
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Over the past weekend, CBP announced in a press release that heavy equipment for the levee wall was on its way and might be seen entering the Rio Grande Valley as early as this week.
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In 1999, a hurricane named Floyd engorged the river until it spilled over a levee, ruining the town hall, Princeville Elementary School, the police and fire station, the senior center and virtually every other structure.
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About 333,000 people in Wilton, a rural California community near Sacramento, were asked to leave their homes Tuesday evening, as emergency crews and officials worked to try to bolster a Cosumnes River levee in Sacramento County.
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That includes Georgia Pecan Pie from Savannah's Candy Kitchen, Levee High Apple Pie from Blue Owl Bakery, Brown Bag Apple Pie from Wisconsin or a Little Pie Sampler from the Little Pie Company in New York.
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Authorities warned of the chance of further landslides and floods, especially in areas hit by levee breaks that have yet to be repaired after Hagibis lashed central and eastern Japan with heavy rains and high winds.
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New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level, was gearing up for a hit, and Landrieu urged people who live "outside the city's levee protection system or in low-lying area" to seek higher ground.
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Frugal Family It was Friday night at Bacchanal, a lusty backyard wine shop, open-air restaurant and performance stage deep in a postindustrial corner of New Orleans's Bywater neighborhood, a levee away from the muddy Mississippi.
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The Omaha District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers said Saturday evening that there had been "numerous levee breaches" on the Missouri River, and that it expected more breaches in the next 24 hours.
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As early as 2023, the levee system may no longer protect New Orleans and its suburbs against a so-called 100-year storm, or a hurricane with a 1 percent chance of happening here each year.
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In April, the Army Corps of Engineers said the levee system around New Orleans, upgraded after Hurricane Katrina at a cost of $14 billion, is sinking, and could become inadequate in as little as four years.
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Across those lines, officials said climate change was a politically risky topic that they generally avoided discussing — and that they considered less relevant to the flooding than levee heights, changes in river management and other factors.
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Mr. West was at his most profound in 2005 when he said George Bush doesn't care about black people after that president did a flyby of the poor and black victims of New Orleans's levee failure.
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"We're both subsiding and suffering global sea level rise at the same time," former senator Reggie Dupre, executive director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his office in Houma.
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The money would fund 14 miles of new border wall in San Diego, CNN said, plus 28 miles of new levee wall barriers and six miles of new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley region.
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But that perception was shattered in early October when Hurricane Matthew barreled inland and sent water pouring around a levee built along the Tar River and into the town, inundating hundreds of homes, including Ms. Cobb's.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - When part of a seawall protecting Jakarta collapsed last week near fisherman Awing Takalar's shack it brought back bad memories of when another levee burst in 2007 and all his belongings were washed away.
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Twenty-six years ago, with floodwaters headed straight for the village, local officials took a desperate gamble, dynamiting and then digging two holes in the levee above town, diverting the flow away from the community's core.
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Continental US endured the wettest 12 months on record Exacerbating fears among residents and officials is the state's levee system, portions of which, they say, may not be high enough or strong enough to withstand the water.
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Authorities warned of the chance of further landslides and floods, especially in areas hit by levee breaks that have yet to be repaired after Typhoon Hagibis lashed central and eastern Japan with heavy rains and high winds.
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About 200 people voluntarily evacuated from the small city of Winthrop and Louis and Clark Village in Buchanan County, Missouri, after a levee in the area breached on Thursday, said the local emergency management coordinator, Bill Brinton.
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About 2150 people voluntarily evacuated from the small city of Winthrop and Louis and Clark Village in Buchanan County, Missouri, after a levee in the area breached on Thursday, said the local emergency management coordinator, Bill Brinton.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Howard Geib, 54, whose farm is near Craig.
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JASON I absolutely agree — Brandon is bigger and more spotlight-hogging, not in a negative way, and there's this innate quality in me, that Levee has, that's calculated and watching to know how to attack the situation.
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Coastal wetlands, for example, reduce economic damages to inland residents because they provide better protection from storm-related disasters than built barriers, avoiding catastrophic losses that occur when a levee breaks or a sea wall is breached.
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"The freed slaves made it what it is," said Mayor Bobbie Jones, 1003, who wants the levee improved and opposes the buyouts and hopes residents who want to leave will first seek private buyers, perhaps like himself.
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In 1967, the Army Corps of Engineers completed a levee that held off floods until Hurricane Floyd's sent water over its top, forcing harrowing rooftop rescues — including Mr. Jones's — and damaging or ruining nearly every home here.
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But when still higher waters were threatening the town in 2011, residents and the United States Army Corps of Engineers topped off the levee with a cobbled-together emergency addition: eight or nine more feet of protection.
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The US section of the International Boundary and Water Commission says the gate was blocking a government-owned levee road, and that the group known as We Build the Wall constructed the gate on federal land without authority.
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Nine more instances of levee breaches and spillovers have occurred farther downstream in Missouri and Kansas, including one near St. Joseph that was last topped in 1993, said Jud Kneuvean, the Corps' emergency management chief in Kansas City.
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The boat's driver, one of many volunteers taking part in the rescue effort, revved the engine to avoid being swallowed by the waves, and the boat caught air, nearly capsizing, as it turned the corner past the levee.
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Electricity and gas were cut off for the town of Pacific Junction in Iowa when they were ordered to evacuate on Sunday after two levees failed and a levee was breached along the Missouri River, according to Weather.com.
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After a protracted legal battle, in which the case was moved from state to federal court, a federal judge ruled in favor of the energy industry, saying the levee board had no legal standing to bring the lawsuit.
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While hard infrastructure, like the levee around New Orleans, may be required to protect some urban areas, it is not feasible or affordable to use engineered structures in most places along the thousands of miles of gulf shoreline.
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"More than likely, they will not be able to put in a crop this year," because of flooding now, and because "we will not have time to do any levee repairs to protect this year's crop," Sturm said.
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PROGRESO, Texas — Two days after giving the federal government his signature, Richard Drawe paused with his wife and mother on a levee that his family has owned for nearly a century to watch the cranes and roseate spoonbills.
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Rose is the third generation of her family to reside in the brick home in the Gunnysack Flats neighborhood near downtown Peru, Nebraska, and 2 miles west of a levee that townspeople said never faltered in the past.
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"When they run water over the top of them, there's not anything you can do," said Pat Sheldon, the president of a rural levee district in southwest Iowa that was still paying off repairs from the 2011 flood.
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Today you can drive on a gravel road on top of the levee between the fields and the Mississippi, the wide, eddying river and glacial tugboats on one side, cotton on the other, red-winged blackbirds darting between them.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Geib, 54, whose farm is near a town called Craig.
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"I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Geib, 54, whose farm is near the town of Craig.
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He then showed slides to indicate what the fencing would look like under the new congressional spending bill that appropriates nearly $85033 million for repairs, including the erection of levee and bollard walls to bolster security in some places.
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Taken together, outlays may eventually cost double what it would have taken to upgrade the levee and viaduct—but now those expenditures will be drawn from FEMA and the Department of Transportation's disaster funds, not a local bond issue.
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The river levees should keep almost all areas safe, said Corps spokesman Ricky Boyett, even with river levels projected at nearly 20 feet above sea level – dangerously close to levee heights that typically range between 20 and 25 feet.
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Authorities were keeping a watchful eye on the levee system built to contain flooding along the lower Mississippi River, which winds through the heart of New Orleans and has been running above flood stage for the past six months.
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Among the hundreds of pages of technical evaluations in a 2009 internal corps' review of the New Orleans levee system, the one that was inadequate on arrival, there are a few arresting sentences that diagnose a more fundamental problem.
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Border Patrol pickup trucks kicked up dirt as they drove on unpaved roads, with one bouncing across the flood levee, the same structure where Mr. Trump said he aims to construct the border wall he pledged during his campaign.
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"Breaches everywhere: multiple, multiple breaches," said Tom Bullock, the top elected official in Holt County, Mo., where crews were rushing last week to patch a leaking levee that, if it failed completely, would flood the small town of Fortescue.
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Locations at the Riverside Levee Marina at Disney's Port Orleans Resort–Riverside and Crockett's Tavern at The Cabins and Campsites of Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort mean you get to experience the charm and beauty of two totally different resorts.
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These first new miles of wall are funded with last year's congressional appropriations, and are part of two projects -- totaling 14 miles -- in the Rio Grande Valley that will be built in the location of an existing levee wall.
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Crews have since made "impressive progress on filling in the levee gap" but have retained the evacuation order to determine when it's "completely safe to return to the area," according to an update on the Manteca Fire Chief's Foundation Facebook page.
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According to the US Customs and Border Protection, a levee will be raised about 2 miles north of the Rio Grande — the border between the US and Mexico — into a concrete wall topped by steel posts and illuminated by floodlights.
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They piled up "stoplogs," or metal beams, and topped them with sheet metal to add height to Harvey Lock, a break in the levee across the river from the city's Lower 9th Ward, which was all but wiped out during Katrina.
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AIR FORCE BASE FLOODED "I was driving out to get one more load of corn from the bins when the levee broke, and there was a wall of water coming at me," said Howard Geib, 54, whose farm is near Craig.
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And water went over the top of a "back levee" in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans in Myrtle Grove, a development of houses on stilts, with boat launches that sit on a canal, but that was expected, authorities said.
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On Monday, IBWC officials propped open a large gate built into the wall, which had prevented access to a levee and a dam as well as a historic monument that begins a series of obelisks marking the border, BuzzFeed reported.
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New Orleans levees may be tested New Orleans' levee system was rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina in 28503, but experts have long worried another strong storm would wipe out the $22019 billion in infrastructure designed to protect the city from flooding.
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The city of Blair had raced to stack a mile of sandbags around its municipal wastewater-treatment facility, and Cargill ended up building an eight-foot-high, three-mile-long emergency levee at a cost of more than $20 million.
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If it were to be inundated by a levee breach, salinity would increase so much that "we'd have to shut down the pumps" carrying water south, said an engineer from Ducks Unlimited (no, really) as he showed us around the site.
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Even many agrarian sections of the river are protected by levees, including the Sny Island Levee Drainage District, upstream from Grafton, which shields farmland along a fertile stretch of Illinois riverfront and has been accused of building its levees too high.
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Katrina: Before the storm, New Orleans — with its distinctive Creole-Acadian-French-Haitian-Vietnamese cultural mélange — was a small city of about 455,000 people that lay in large part below sea level, ostensibly protected by a system of levee walls.
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In 2017, a federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit from a state levee authority, which claimed that oil and gas companies had weakened New Orleans's defenses from storm surges by destroying coastal wetlands that act as a buffer zone.
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But the storm's impact could have been worse: Gordon gave only a glancing blow to New Orleans, where Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the city now has "the pumps and the power" needed to protect residents inside the levee protection system.
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Not far from Mr. Eaton's home, the conservancy bought a 500-acre plot along the river, called Oneto-Denier; punched a hole in a levee to turn it into a floodplain; and planted native vegetation as part of the restoration effort.
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At one point Sunday afternoon, part of a makeshift barrier meant to plug a low point in the city's main levee system gave way and river water leaked through -- prompting workers to try to shore it back up with construction equipment.
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"Southwest Iowa communities have raised grave concern about the unresponsive Corps of Engineers," Mr. Grassley said, noting the agency's decision in 2011 to have the Iowa town of Hamburg remove reinforcements in a levee that later breached and flooded the area.
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Staff at the Harvest Church West Tulsa, which sits behind a levee a few blocks from the Arkansas River, moved furniture and sound and office equipment from the basement to the church's second floor and relocated staff out of the neighborhood.
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The money will fund 14 miles of new border wall in San Diego, 28 miles of new levee wall barriers and six miles of new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley region and 14 miles of replacement fencing in San Diego.
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The major culprits include rising seas, sinking lands, and the Mississippi River levee system, which has protected the bird's-foot delta from annual inundation, but at the same time deprived the area of the sediment that built it in the first place.
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Converting the sloping levee into a wall will also trap wildlife when the river floods, leaving them to drown, and planned 24-hour security lighting will cause severe disruptions of the daily rhythms of plants and animals, opponents of the project have added.
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Mills County Emergency Management Director Larry Hurst told the Des Moines Register nobody knew when the water would subside, as it continued to smash through a levee break near the point where the Platte and Missouri rivers converge at Plattsmouth Toll Bridge.
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What I mean is that I run my dogs on the levee in New Orleans twice a day for an hour each and in between, I teach two hot yoga classes and hit the gym if I have some time to kill.
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DHS says the roughly $1.6 billion requested for a wall will cover 74 miles of construction: 32 miles of wall and 28 miles of levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, and 14 miles of replacement for secondary fencing in San Diego.
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Knowing the flood maps would shape the city's future — dictating property values, insurance premiums and perceptions of the city's viability — the officials claimed that FEMA had not adequately taken into account the protection offered by the $14.5 billion post-Katrina levee system.
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FEMA's maps mean homeowners who have rebuilt in many neighborhoods flooded in 2005 — including, to give just one example, the area around a new memorial exhibition at the site of a catastrophic levee failure — will no longer be required to buy flood insurance.
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"We're 11 years after Katrina, and only 60 percent of the housing stock in St. Bernard Parish is back," Mr. Spain said, referring to a parish just east of New Orleans that was almost entirely destroyed by the levee failures after the hurricane.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Galveston, the Texas coastal city long exposed to the worst storms off the Gulf of Mexico, has been able to avoid major flooding from Hurricane Harvey with its seawall and protective levee systems, engineers and local officials said on Saturday.
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Instead, it was Trump who folded, accepting just $1.375 billion in new fencing and levee walls — a far cry from the $5.7 billion he'd demanded initially — and igniting a firestorm of criticism from conservatives infuriated he didn't take the fight to the wire.
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If climate change continues to do what it does, in 30 or 40 years New Orleans is going to be an island protected by the $14.6 billion levee barrier that we have, and everything south of I-10 is going to be compromised.
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A horde of steamships gathers at the St. Louis levee in Thomas M. Easterly's 1852 daguerreotype of the rapidly expanding city; railroad tracks cut through a forest of towering trees in James F. Ryder's 1862 albumen prints for the Atlantic & Great Western Railway.
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As Mayor Frank Klipsch of Davenport starts that conversation — a wide-ranging discussion of upstream levee heights, riverfront development and whether the city should install permanent flood protection — there is one topic he sees little benefit in raising: human-caused climate change.
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"If we were to put our levee systems farther back, we'd be able to accommodate more floodwaters and there would be less breaching, and we'd be able to restore more habitat," said Eileen Shader, the director of floodplain restoration at American Rivers.
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The levee, in an area northwest of Tokyo, was one of at least 55 breached as Typhoon Hagibis dumped record-breaking rains on Japan last weekend, with more than 70 people dying in the storm and floodwaters hitting more than 10,000 homes.
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"They would run levee walls all the way up to Santa Ana, and then run the walls all the way on the other side -- so basically Santa Ana would be like a three mile hole in a 50 mile wall," said Nicol.
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Many of the levees, usually earthen and topped with grass, were built by farmers decades ago and are now managed by a patchwork of local government agencies known as levee districts that often do not coordinate or even follow the same rules.
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But this week's flooding blew past that record by a wide margin of almost 1003 feet in the same area, something many hydrologists never thought would happen, said Bob Jacobsen, a Baton Rouge-based engineer who has worked on flood protection with local levee boards.
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A DHS memo shared with a Senate committee last month said the agency would be able to build 34 miles (55 km) of a levee wall in Texas's Rio Grande Valley and replace 14 miles (23 km) of fence in San Diego with $1 billion.
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Barry was forecast to bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the river, pushing its height to 19 feet (5.9 m) on Saturday, the highest on record since 1950 and dangerously close to the top of the levee system protecting the city.
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With emergency sirens blaring as the Missouri River rose to the top of the three-story-high levee wall in St. Joseph, about 2200 miles (88 km) north of Kansas City, Missouri, sheriff's deputies rushed door-to-door urging residents to flee to higher ground.
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With emergency sirens blaring as the Missouri River rose to the top of the three-story-high levee wall in St. Joseph, about 0003 miles (2000 km) north of Kansas City, Missouri, sheriff's deputies rushed door-to-door urging residents to flee to higher ground.
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee assured members that the final proposal would include a tax title that would eliminate federal aviation taxes and authorize the new corporation to levee user fees in their place.. But the Ways and Means Committee never produced that section.
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He floated the idea while reviewing the omnibus spending bill, CNN reported, which includes about $1.6 billion for border security, such as levee fencing, which in sum is a mere sliver of the $25 billion sought by the president for the construction of the barrier.
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An irregular, flawed federal funding process led to a piecemeal levee system that included some low-cost solutions that compromised the quality, safety and reliability of the designs, according to a 2007 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel.
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The project was the idea of Matthew Chavez, an artist known as Levee, who said he felt that New Yorkers, never shy about their thoughts or feelings, needed a place to vent their emotions after the surprising defeat of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
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Construction of the first extension of the current barriers, 217 miles of a levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, is scheduled to begin this month, but a butterfly center has asked a judge to block construction because the barrier would bisect its property.
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Residents of Hamburg, wedged between the Nishnabotna and Missouri Rivers in Iowa's fertile southwest corner, speak with pride about enduring nature's whims, about living in a place where people volunteer to fill sandbags and donate meals and make a silly music video about a levee.
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According to new details sent to Congress, the administration wants immediate funding to complete an existing barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, $500 million to complete 28 miles of border levee wall near McAllen, Texas, and $350 million for construction along two segments near San Diego.
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TIRRELL: WHEN YOU MENTION OLDER ON THE MARKET PRODUCTS, THAT SORT OF ALSO SPEAKS TO WHAT WE SAW PROPOSED BY HILLARY CLINTON, TO HAVE THIS SORT OF DRUG PRICING PANEL THAT WOULD OBSERVE BEHAVIORS AND WOULD HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO LEVEE FINES OR DO OTHER MEASURES.
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New Orleans officials warned that a hurricane could bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the Mississippi River capable of raising the river's height to 20 feet (6 meters) above sea level, high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting the city.
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"Much of the levee system remains compromised, and as of noon Wednesday there are more than 30 total breaches across the system," in the three states experiencing flooding, Lieutenant Colonel James Startzell, deputy commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District told the briefing.
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A Customs and Border Protection helicopter hovered over the Rio Grande, and Border Patrol pickup trucks kicked up dirt as they drove on unpaved roads, with one bouncing across the flood levee, the same structure where Mr. Trump said he aims to construct a border wall.
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The city of Davenport has been inundated by a levee breach, and last Friday, the Coast Guard temporarily closed the Mississippi River near St. Louis to boat and barge traffic because of high water levels, a blow to the multibillion-dollar shipping industry that uses the river.
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Levee compares it to listening to community radio as a child in the UK, getting broadcasts from a tiny town in the Midwestern US. "I live in the UK, where the idea of having a radio station for a single town was strange," he told me.
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A high tide from the Pacific Ocean was expected to swell the delta, which supplies water for 25 million Californians, and engineers were watching for any levee breaches that would affect delta farming and suburban communities near Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, Rizzardo said.
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The aforementioned "Don't Hurt Yourself" brings in The White Stripes' Jack White, who sounds "feistier than he has in years, as she compares herself to a dragon breathing fire — that's an understatement — and samples the John Bonham drum thunder from 'When The Levee Breaks,'" Sheffield added.
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A combination of heavy rains and freshwater released by the Bonnet Carre Spillway -- built to reduce stress on the levee system and prevent urban areas, including New Orleans, from flooding -- lowered the level of salt in the Mississippi Sound and provided "ripe" conditions for algae to bloom, said Schmale.
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And because Barry's storm surge could essentially block the flow of the river from reaching the Gulf of Mexico, the National Weather Service now forecasts that the Mississippi may rise to 20 feet—the highest crest since 1927, before the modern levee and spillway protection system was completed.
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The state's huge snow melt also is causing some rivers and dams to fill up in the Central Valley where there's been several levee breaks and flooding in some farm communities along the Kings River as well as reports of some crops such as alfalfa going under water.
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Despite the immense ships floating by on the far side of the seemingly endless levee, Plaquemines appears to be like many other rural Louisiana parishes: dotted with churches, convenience stores, trailer homes surrounded by tender green fields, sprays of yellow wildflowers, live oaks covered with Spanish moss, vegetable gardens.
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Mr. Gardley has long drawn from history, in such plays as "On the Levee" (set against the Mississippi flood of 1927); "the road weeps, the well runs dry" (inspired by a 19th-century Seminole community in Oklahoma); and "The Box: A Black Comedy" (about African-American men and prison).
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Those measures would have provided funding for dredging and levee repair in Louisiana, defunded the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule, put in additional funding for wind energy research, ordered a study on oil exports, increased clean energy research funding and put more money into construction for small harbors.
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