levee

“How tall is that levee and is it strong enough to withstand a medium-level storm?” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

His biggest fear would be a breach of a levee protecting the Netherlands -- "the impact would be immense", but he is confident in Dutch preparations.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Or how Stewart’s path, starting that day on the levee, would eventually lead him to USC, where his impact as a freshman was felt as soon as he joined the Trojans’ front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

To run up the levee and gaze upon that view of downtown was something of a rite of passage for kids in the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

Here an angle is formed, the avenue and its streetcar tracks on one side, the river and levee and railroad tracks on the other.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

We have channelized and leveed California’s rivers and then built homes and businesses in the floodplains, exposing them to costly damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

As with the Mississippi, we have dammed or leveed most of the world’s major rivers.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

For a leveed river, monitor stage is when the water is several feet below the tops of the banks, but high enough where local officials are required to begin monitoring the river around the clock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2017

Now mostly agricultural — its leveed islands interlaced by rivers, sloughs, and short channels called cuts — the delta supplies water to the state’s driest regions.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2013

A conservative estimate would place the miles of canals and leveed rivers in China, Korea and Japan equal to eight times the number represented in Fig.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

Army Corps of Engineers also contributed by leveeing the Mississippi River to prevent flooding, which had the unintended effect of preventing wetlands from naturally regenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The loss of sediment from leveeing the river and saltwater intrusion caused by coastal oil and gas development are two big culprits, Keim noted.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

We can see the impact man’s activities - from leveeing the river to cutting through wetlands - can have on our natural defenses and our natural resources.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

The extensive leveeing of the Lower Mississippi River made the 1927 floods worse, just as all levees today carry consequences for current and future floods.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2011

The system of leveeing was too onerous and expensive to be undertaken by the people sparsedly populating the eastern bank throughout the hill-country.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks