Sentence examples for raised river from inspiring English sources

Heavy downpours since Sunday raised river levels, flooded around 570 homes and businesses and caused chaos on rail and road networks.

Heavy rain also raised river levels and caused mud embankments to burst in the Sundarbans, a delta in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

Above average snowmelt has raised river levels tremendously and caused extensive flooding in the area for weeks.

Several roads were closed, bridges were washed out and people were evacuated from their homes on the Kenai Peninsula on Thursday after heavy rainfall caused flooding and raised rivers to their highest levels in 30 years.

Environmentalists and others blamed the government's decision to divert water to farmers in the Klamath Basin, which encompasses part of Oregon and California, instead of raising river levels for fish.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT) INDIA: THOUSANDS FLEE FLOODS -- Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Andhra Pradesh, a southern state, and the death toll has risen past 140 as heavy rains continue to raise river levels dangerously high, producing the worst flooding in decades.

Many garage doors are raised, the river flowing through freely.

The quake raised the river's floor, increased its load of sediment from the Himalayas and shifted some of the deeper channels so that currents began pounding Majuli.

The district used to get rid of the salty water by putting it into the Colorado, but doing that raised the river's salinity so high that it began harming farms downstream, in Mexico.

Construction did not get far, before an ice flood raised the river to the second story level of Milanville homes.

Raising river water level will result in a shallow lake system.