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Levee - Wikipedia A levee ( ˈ l ɛ v i or ˈ l ɛ v eɪ ), [a] [1] dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated ridge, natural or artificial, alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river
National Levee Database - United States Army Levees 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
What Is A Levee? - FEMA. gov An accredited levee system is a system that FEMA has determined to meet the design, data, and documentation requirements of 44 CFR 65 10 and therefore can be shown on a FIRM as providing a base chance or greater level of flood hazard reduction
Levee - National Geographic Society A 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
What is a levee? | HowStuffWorks One of the oldest weapons they've wielded against the rivers and oceans is the levee, also known as a dike A 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
Levee - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A levee, or levée, is a raised bank of a river The levee or dyke is a protection against floods [1][2][3] There are two types of levee: riverdykes and seadykes The seadyke was invented in Holland in 1277 Rotterdam is largely below sea level, but is protected by its dykes
levee - Wiktionary, the free dictionary levee (plural levees) An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi The steep bank of a river