Situation where a levee containing water is breached
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A levee failure during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.A breach in a dike during the North Sea flood of 1953.
A levee breach or levee failure (the word dike or dyke can also be used instead of levee) is a situation where a levee fails or is intentionally breached, causing the previously contained water to flood the land behind the levee.
A leveebreach or levee failure (the word dike or dyke can also be used instead of levee) is a situation where a levee fails or is intentionally breached...
A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the...
western edge of New Orleans near Hammond Highway, a breach opened in the 17th Street Canal levee. Floodwater flowed through a hole that became 450 feet...
the levees and flood walls. The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet ("MR-GO") breached its levees in approximately 15 places. The major leveebreaches in the...
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grassroots group Levees.org installed a plaque, vetted and fact checked by the Louisiana State Office of Historic Preservation, at the leveebreach site. The...
gusts. The storm surge caused approximately 23 breaches in the drainage canal and navigational canal levees and flood walls. As mandated in the Flood Control...
Orleans. The London Avenue Canal's flood walls built atop earthen leveesbreached on both sides during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The canal was constructed...
2006, the Orleans Levee Board (OLB) was the body of commissioners that oversaw the Orleans Levee District (OLD) which supervised the levee and floodwall system...
(150 mm) per hour. Many people began evacuating the area, fearing a leveebreach. Despite attempts to alleviate the water rise, the Addicks Reservoir...
water in the community. On June 19 a levee in Atchison County was breached and the levee protecting Big Lake was breached near Corning, Missouri, at Mile Marker...
surge caused 53 leveebreaches in the federally built levee system protecting metro New Orleans and the failure of the 40 Arpent Canal levee. Failures occurred...
by opening the Yellow River's southern levee. The main stem of the Yellow River flowed through the leveebreach for the next nine years, further disrupting...
lives. Before Hurricane Katrina, which combined storm-tide flooding with levee-breach (dam) flooding from Lake Pontchartrain, the average death rate for tropical...
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needed] On September 5, 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers started to fix leveebreaches by dropping huge sandbags from Chinook helicopters. The London Avenue...
the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, the "truther" conspiracy, the "leveebreach" theory, and the "death panel" conspiracy. Partisanship loyalty affects...
town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. The breach displaced around 200 residents of Missouri's...
in Decorah flooded when a shorter college-built levee was breached. The Army Corps of Engineers levee held in all parts of Decorah. Up to 6 inches (152 mm)...
floodplains was seen in death of several hundred individuals during a leveebreach in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. Human-made embankments along...
morning of June 14, the town of Oquawka, Illinois, was evacuated, due to a leveebreach along the swollen Iowa River. The city council believed this would affect...
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