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

Any doubt he might have had disappeared that first day on the levee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

When the final word came down, Alexander brought Stewart to the top of the levee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

He didn’t think the levee road was going to be there tomorrow morning.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

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

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

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

Since leveeing above, the deposit has been extremely rapid, until now we find some excellent plantations in Plaquemine.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various