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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

From the mid-19th century, they dammed and leveed and regulated the river to move the water around the way we do now.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2022

The openings will be gated and channelized, and the channels will themselves be leveed.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

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

Already, however, the Yuba, the Feather, and the American rivers, tributaries of the Sacramento, have been leveed at different points for quite another reason.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles