Sentence examples for concrete river bed from inspiring English sources

Dallas is building a park on a deck over a downtown freeway, and Los Angeles is looking at how to gussy and green up an old concrete river bed.

And if the savings and insurance assets are freed to chase the best returns on capital, they are highly unlikely to end up paying for concrete river-beds and other public works in LDP constituencies.

It seems intuitive that, whereas Eisenhower's building of the interstates made a long-term contribution to US growth, the measures adopted by the Japanese (concreting river beds etc) in the last 20 years have been less effective.

City authorities encased the river bed in concrete in the 1930s, turning it into a flood-control channel that was a byword for contamination and forbidden to boaters.

And recycling building materials help China reach official goals of improving environmental protection because it eases pressure on landfills, reduces illegal dumping and reduces destructive practices used to obtain sand for concrete, like dredging river beds or quarrying mountainsides.

The average has dropped by about per second since completion of Trebišnjica Hydroelectric Power Plant and the concreting of the Trebišnjica's river bed.

During repository building measures a natural river was relocated and the water was directed through a new, artificial river bed lined with a concrete basement and local colluvium.

Instead of expensive dikes, a concrete tank was built lengthwise in the river bed.

Of the 51 miles of the river, only a small portion in the Sepulveda Basin, Glendale Narrows and Compton Creek were left with the natural river bed because the high water table in these areas prevented concrete encasement.

It was found that the 18th-century foundations, consisting of wooden platforms sunk into the river bed, had largely rotted away, and they were reinforced with steel pilings and concrete foundations.

Then, disaster: the truck gets stuck in a river bed.