Sentence examples for flood control measure from inspiring English sources
There will also be an effort to improve the condition of the River Rouge, which was straightened out and lined with concrete in an Army Corps of Engineers flood control measure in 1970's.
The bank retreat of about 100 m during 1949 2007 was caused by the natural bank erosion processes as well as by channel straightening as a flood control measure for Bratislava.
The blockage of the river flow was adopted as a flood control measure to protect its riparian areas, especially the Nagaon town, from flood hazard.
Mainly as a response to the increasing food hazard faced by the district administrative headquarter, i.e., the Nagaon town, an ad hoc flood control measure was undertaken by constructing an earthen embankment, known as Hatimura dyke, across the river's take-off point near Hatimura in the year 1964.
The dams also are an important flood control measure.
The Jordan River Parkway was originally proposed in 1971 as a flood control measure with two reservoirs, restoration of wetlands, shoreline roads for cars, walking trails, and parks.
The flooding problem in the Yazoo watershed can be addressed with minor flood control measures to protect houses and roads and reforestation of wetter areas.
What New Orleans needed was a federal government willing to pay to ensure a safe infrastructure, including flood control measures and levee repair, to all Americans, and not just to rich Americans or those with powerful Congressional representation.
Plans had been in the works for better flood control measures, but they have been snagged and stalled, said Mayor Dennis Walaker, by residents who complained about "how the project might block their views, might change the way their backyards looked".
We conclude that courts should use these factors in cases where a public entity's flood control measures, designed to protect against potentially dangerous periodic flooding, cause property damage.
