Sentence examples for built to flood from inspiring English sources

"And they were built to flood".

It's only a couple of paces more to Tre Scalini on Piazza Navona, which Domitian built to flood for his boat games.

The Midtown tunnel, which connects Queens and Manhattan, was built to withstand flooding, yet it flooded, too, as did significant parts of the subway, which as one wag put it, got a "once-in-a-century clean".

Reversing centuries of efforts to drain land, dredge rivers and rush water to the sea, banks have been built to deliberately flood fields.

On Tuesday, David Smith, Denbighshire council's lead member responsible for flooding and emergency planning, said he thought the problem lay with a bund - or embankment - built to hold flood waters back.

Zhu et al. (2018) investigated the impacts of hydrological modification in an urban stream and demonstrated that a new bridge built to reduce flood risk also decreased macroinvertebrate biodiversity and water quality of the stream.

So huge sea walls were built to prevent floods.

The levees they built to control flooding also built pressure in the contained water after a big rain.

The idea is to limit the damage of future storms by reducing the number of properties in flood-prone areas, though the city said another buyer could purchase the property in the future and put up a new structure, as long as it is built to withstand floods.

The hurricane's destruction has, as well, underscored the insufficiency of Houston's city planning ("Boomtown, Flood Town" was the title of a prescient report last year by the Texas Tribune and ProPublica) and the inadequacy of the reservoirs built to manage flooding ("If the Addicks and Barker Dams Fail" was the headline of a sharp Houston Press report published five years ago).

"Dozens" of people were also swept away into the Sea of Cortez when Hurricane Liza destroyed a 600 feet sea wall, which, ironically, had been built to prevent flooding from such storms.