Over time, the flood plain will become wider due to erosion and deeper due to deposition. A levee is a raised bank formed on the banks of a river, in the lower course. Due to the drop in energy ...

They watch river levels like hawks, sometimes pooling resources to repair or raise levees themselves. But their interests can clash with others who see the floodplain as more than just farmland ...

Heavy rain continues to fall across the Hunter and Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Rivers are bursting their banks and ...

Gulfport was protected by a levee rated to withstand a 100-year ... regional chief of FEMA's floodplain management. "We implement the laws that are given to us and the laws right now deal with ...

However, the bay's communities rely almost entirely on an aging system of levees for their protection; levees that were not built to withstand the extreme conditions driven by climate change.

there is also a theory that much of our large-scale water-related infrastructure—such as dams and levees—is not worth the environmental costs, which include fish kills, altered floodplains ...

In the beginning there was water and land, rivers and floodplains. Now there are levees and dams, and centuries of history brought by the rivers dictating the fate of Sutter and Yuba counties.

The maps show that the levee would protect Mendenhall Valley residents against a flood of the same magnitude as last year.

To restore the river habitat, the project will remove berms and levees used to constrain the river, create new channels, and regrade about 300 acres of floodplain. “We’ve got a west floodplain ...