Sentence examples for built a levee around from inspiring English sources

He built a levee around it, he cut off all tidal flow, and he dried the levee out".

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.

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.

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.

Fish ripple out as the water rises and congregate as it falls, providing food for wading birds such as the wood stork.But in the 1930s, the Army Corps of Engineers (at the behest of the federal and state governments) built a new levee around Lake Okeechobee to dam the southward flood.

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?

a proposal to build a levee system, the Ike Dike, to protect the bay is under discussion.

Because the village was far downriver, the dam would not offer much protection, so the Corps proposed to build a $3.5 million levee around the community.

Flood control along the river dates to the foundation of New Orleans in 1717 by the French, who built a small levee to shelter their infant city.

She built a summer around both.

The company has since built a 17-foot levee to protect its only production facilities.