Construction starts on a four-foot-high earthen levee (from the French word lever, "to raise"), the beginning of three centuries of combating high water through embankments. By 1726, the levee ...

The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at UC Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to ...

6. In the Industrial Canal, the floodwaters start to erode the earthen levee embankments and cause four sections of the concrete levee "I" walls to bulge outwards. Cracks appear on the concrete ...

With climate-driven disasters on the rise, urgent action is needed to modernise flood resilience strategies worldwide.

Riprap can be used to construct levees and embankments that provide a physical barrier against rising water during heavy rainfall or rapid snowmelt. It involves the strategic placement of large ...