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Bookmark or Share- National Levee Database - levees.sec.usace.army.milLevees are commonly built alongside rivers or streams – which can be large or quite small. These levees are typically designed to a certain size and shape to handle possible flooding within a...
- Levee | Civil Engineering Benefits | BritannicaLevee, any low ridge or earthen embankment built along the edges of a stream or river channel to prevent flooding of the adjacent land. Artificial levees are typically needed to control the flow of rivers meandering through broad, flat floodplains. Levees are usually embankments of dirt built wide.
- Levee - National Geographic SocietyA levee is a natural or artificial wall that blocks water from going where we don’t want it to go. Levees may be used to increase available land for habitation or divert a body of water so the fertile soil of a river or seabed may be used for agriculture. They prevent rivers from flooding cities in a storm surge.
- What Is A Levee? - FEMA.govThe National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) defines a levee in Title 44, Chapter 1, Section 59.1 of the Code of Federal Regulations (44 CFR 59.1) as “a man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and constructed in accordance with sound engineering practices to contain, control, or divert the flow of water so as to reduce risk ...
- What is a levee? | HowStuffWorksA levee is simply a man-made embankment built to keep a river from overflowing its banks or to prevent ocean waves from washing into undesired areas.
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