flood embankment

After the flood embankment was approved and built, the land around Mississippi remains one of agriculturally most productive areas of America.

It includes the river, including the steep slopes, floodplain forest and swamp forests, valleys and flood embankments.

The offices must back on to the concrete reinforced flood embankment, Eleanor realized; on one side of the building a narrow road ran right down a slope into the surging water.

It reached the watershed between the Isar and the Vils at a height of 420 metres and crossed the Vils near Aufhausen on a flood embankment.

The Poles then sent infantry and three squadrons of light cavalry to the left wing of the Swedes and forced them out of the flood embankments of which they captured.

In the same period, from February 2003 to July 2003, a large slip occurred on a flood embankment between Ebermergen and Donauwörth, bringin traffic on the line almost to a complete halt.

With a force consisting of 2,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry, he started his march from Walichnów in the direction of Gniew under the cover of flood embankments along the bank of the Vistula.

I have been asked by Nether Wyresdale Parish Council to draw your attention to the state of the flood embankment alongside the river Wyre on Gubberford Lane near Gubberford Bridge.

Large stretches of what now appear as flood embankments are long abandoned industrial waste heaps, some still containing highly reactive and caustic materials, including large heaps of Galligu, a by-product of the LeBlanc process used at the James Muspratt alkali works at Flint.