levee

He weaves the stories together with musicians from perennially imperiled New Orleans performing for his interviewees at a “welcome table” on a levee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

Years of sweat accumulated in that soil as Alexander sent local kid after local kid up the levee and onto a college roster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

On the levee, there were no accommodations made for the youngest among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

Far up the street the levee seemed to have broken.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

And once that is done the river may be straightened, shortened, deepened, leveed, and made a docile, reliable carrier of commerce.

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

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 Sparks, William Henry