Sentence examples for levee failure from inspiring English sources

Local interests label all talk of levee failure as scaremongering.

I don't recall the exact words, though I would bet "flood" and "levee failure" were mentioned.

Part of the blame for New Orleans' levee failure during Katrina was because of negligent upkeep.

Any levee failure, however, would allow saltwater to surge inland, rendering the freshwater supply unfit for irrigation or consumption.

Jeffrey Mount, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, predicts that there is a 64 percent chance of a catastrophic levee failure in the delta in the next 50 years.

It should not have surprised me, then, that when I returned home from our talk to read his "Katrina Lexicon," I found impatience bordering on disdain for the "Federal Levee Failure crowd".

Begin with the hurricane and the levee failures.

Another man-made disaster, people say, akin to the levee failures.

Still, the levee failures elsewhere might lessen the blow, even in LaGrange.

Then came the levee failures and the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.

The reputation of the Corps is now at a low ebb because of levee failures in New Orleans.