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Levee

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Natural River Levees - How are they formed? Labelled diagram and explanation

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How levees fail, how we fix them

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Corps Concepts: What's a Levee?

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Floodplains & levees

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Tiana Major9 - Levee (Let It Break) | A COLORS SHOW

A levee, dike, dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
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    • Failures and breaches