Sentence examples for protection berm from inspiring English sources

Essentially a large storm protection berm around lower Manhattan, it will extend for 10 miles, and aims to protect an incredibly dense, vibrant and low-lying urban area.

The rupture of a flood protection berm on Sunday, however, allowed water to threaten the facility's main power transformers, and the plant was temporarily cut off from power supplied by the electric grid as a precaution.

Full disclosure: I used to work as a maintenance ranger (glorified janitor) at False Cape State Park – on Virginia's Atlantic Coast near the North Carolina border – and later as a surveyor for a company that built storm protection berms along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.

At a US special forces base nearby, troops were constructing earth berms for protection, their artillery pointed at Isis positions below.

A social survey was carried out in 1993 to assess the impact of noise experienced by residents living in the vicinity of the new TGV Atlantique line, along which noise protection (e.g., barriers, earth berms,..) was provided to comply with the noise guideline (daytime (8 a.m.–8 p.m. Leq< 65 dB(A)).

The controversial plan to build 72 kilometers of sand berms for oil protection in Louisiana is accelerating.

Strategies include (1) hazard avoidance with land-use planning and zonation; (2) hazard modification with engineered protection structures (bypass channel and deflection berm); (3) hazard warning to allow for timely evacuation; and (4) hazard response and recovery, which minimize long-term impacts after a lahar has occurred.

The Syrian Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) gathered behind a berm of hard brown sand as they prepared to cross the border — smoking and discussing the route among themselves.

Outside berms were built for protection should a gully off Brays Bayou overflow its banks, and strategically located flood gates that can rise three feet were installed.

The trenches and berms soldiers build for protection similarly devastate the fragile land.

However, the high local variability of the bank erosion of the studied river appears to be controlled by very local factors such as the bank angle, the presence of a berm at the bank-toe (providing protection against fluvial erosion), lateral supply (outlet of rainwater pipes) and deflected flow in the direction of the bank.