Sentence examples for build a levee from inspiring English sources
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has been courageous to make global warming a subject of public debate, but will taxpayers support his proposal to build a levee in New York Harbor?
In addition, the group decided that the old runway and airfield would become part of a tidal wetlands restoration project and required the developer to build a levee separating the wetlands from the proposed new housing.
a proposal to build a levee system, the Ike Dike, to protect the bay is under discussion.
After a bill that would have provided funds to protect the site failed, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an Executive Order that authorized funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to build a levee around the site to protect it from the imminent flooding caused by construction of the Lower Monumental Dam.
When park management and the U.S. Department of the Interior asked the C&SF for assistance, the C&SF offered to build a levee along the southern border of Everglades National Park to retain waters that historically flowed through the mangroves and into Florida Bay.
According to Sandra, workers bulldozed trees and built a levee in the process of building the well pad, a gravel slab on which a well is built and pumps are installed.
He built a levee around it, he cut off all tidal flow, and he dried the levee out".
After 1965, the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a levee system around a much larger geographic footprint that included previous marshland and swamp.
Between 1952 and 1954 in cooperation with the state of Florida it built a levee 100 mile long between the eastern Everglades and suburbs from Palm Beach to Homestead, and blocked the flow of water into populated areas.
Why does Mr. Oliver Houck suggest that the plan to build a new levee is akin to the "Maginot Line?" l.
But they are still proposing to build a new levee high enough and strong enough to hold back even those rising tides, to keep the water from reclaiming for itself the land that once was, but for the moment no longer is, part of the bay.
