Sentence examples for flood control system from inspiring English sources

With the cost of what we spend each year in Iraq we could create an early detection system and a more modern flood control system.

To salvage its reputation, the government will have to spend heavily on a system of canals and pumps and put in place an efficient flood control system.

The Morganza, one of four floodways in the Mississippi River and tributaries flood control system, has only been opened once, in 1973.

Thus, the improvement of the Milano flood control system needs a synergism between structural and non-structural approaches.

To that end, the Army Corps of Engineers has been instructed by Congress to replace the present flood control system with a new system of water storage reservoirs and canals to distribute water to the Everglades.

"We get some calls from people who don't understand the flood control system and they think that because the park is under water that other portions of the city are flooding," Mr. McGrane said.

That number could be lowered to 43 by 2067 if aggressive investment in flood control systems continues.

Strategic Command buildings have not been flooded, since they are on a hill and the underground facilities have flood control systems, said Maj. Meghan Liemburg-archer, a Strategic Command spokeswoman.

William McKeon, president and chief executive of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, said the flood control systems in the massive hospital complex had been activated.

But serious deficiencies in Sacramento's flood control systems were identified in the 1980s and again in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina swamped much of New Orleans.

But when barriers are already in place as flood control systems, modern tidal devices can be effectively installed with little additional environmental impact.