..... stop floods, just like the levees on the Mississippi.
Levees are built along the banks of rivers
Because they do
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
The act of rising., A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee., To attend the levee or levees of., An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river., To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
levees
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
levees
Levees, dikes.
It is a ridges of sediment that accumulate along the margins of river channels on floodplains.