levee

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

He thinks back to the first time he met Stewart, as a 360-pound sixth-grader, before he’d seen Stewart run the levee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

Six years ago, before he was seen as a budding star at USC, Jahkeem Stewart stood at the base of that levee in Algiers on a muggy day, drenched in sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

Every few hundred feet the levee was breached.

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

River channels have been leveed, new canals or channels have been excavated, great areas have been drained entirely, with complete change of vegetation.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook

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