The word "levee" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "levee" to mean an embankment built to control or stop the flow of water, often along a body of water like a river or sea. For example: "The levee was built to protect the town from flooding during the rainy season."
The community's popular National Tom Sawyer Days festival over the Fourth of July weekend should go ahead because all of the major events – the fence-painting and frog-jumping contests among them – are inside the flood levee.
Safe failure may mean building self-regulating systems that can isolate a malfunction and prevent cascading disruptions and eventual collapse, while avoiding over-reliance on a single piece of protective infrastructure, such as a levee.
She can often be found along this dirt road, which covers the levee.
The Corps of Engineers, meanwhile, has failed to produce plans for higher levees and coastal restoration that would provide so-called "Category 5" protection, as Congress has demanded.Louisianans hope that the national infrastructure campaign Barack Obama wants to implement will include a healthy dose of levee- and wetland-building.
Levee improvements are going on at the moment, but until they are finished New Orleans is vulnerable.
When the levee at Mounds Landing, not very far from here, broke during the great flood of 1927, it sent water cresting over the roofs of houses in Yazoo City, 75 miles away.The Yazoo pump is meant to prevent flooding under less extreme conditions than those of 1927.
The president was briefed too late about the broken levee, and acted too late to alleviate the resulting calamity.
An association of state levee boards also voted to oppose it.
The levee board does not disagree that the corps is also to blame.
The Army Corps blew a two-mile hole in the Birds Point levee on May 2nd, and opened Bonnet Carré a week later.
In a report commissioned by the federal government last year, the National Research Council (congress's official advisor on scientific matters) noted that "the instability of levees and potential of one levee failure to affect others are liable to be major issues for achieving any measure of water-supply reliability or ecosystem rehabilitation".
