Sentence examples for levee walls from inspiring English sources
Even so, by Monday night, water was lapping at the top of some levee walls.
According to corps figures, the 21-foot levee walls would shield about 1,600 houses and buildings, and save millions of dollars in future flood damages.
"Some of the land inside the levee walls is privately owned," said William Barclay of East Brunswick, who attended the public meeting.
Mr. Saul got a backhoe from his farm to move more dirt and raise the levee walls, and later James and Margie Saul, his parents, came by with a trackhoe to further bolster the levee.
Some of the area would be lost to four miles of dikes and levee walls, but environmentalists have tentatively agreed that the amount of restoration would probably offset any destruction.
Back inside the levee walls we negotiate the roads under a series of elevated highways – some double, some triple-deckers – and dive into the narrow streets of Wanhua, one of the city's oldest districts.
It exists below the levee wall, indicating not merely that risk, but some suspension of the rules.
Al Weigel, Fargo's public works director, said his employees, who had been operating pumps at the levee wall for days, were shifted to plowing duty on Monday.
Another small-town example of Middle America hove into sight, huddled behind its levee wall, offering its own tantalising glimpse of yesteryear in the slow-revealing panorama that only the mighty Mississippi can provide.
Survival is now the key, but Wink and Hushpuppy realise that this is only possible if the waters can be induced to fall by some desperate guerrilla measure – waters that are being kept high by the levee wall that is keeping the folks on the other side dry.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Engineers Point to Flaws In Design of Floodwalls In the early 1980's the Army Corps of Engineers drove the anchors for a New Orleans levee wall no deeper than 17 feet below sea level, despite a potentially weak layer of peat soil 15 feet deep.
