embankment
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There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and embankments to prevent flooding every day of the year.
a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
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The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
Another man was killed this time last year when the truck he was driving veered off the road and down the railway 'embankment' on to the tracks.
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
It slid off the road and down an 'embankment' on to the East Coast main line.
Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the 'embankment' of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
Once the vehicle's momentum had carried it towards the 'embankment' alongside the railway tracks there would have been no way it could have been halted in time.
a railway 'embankment'
He told the council last Tuesday that speed restrictions have already been put on trains as they go over the 'embankment' close the village railway station.
The landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth 'embankments' protecting agricultural land.
The engineers of Spt Coy needed the pile driver to hammer four-metre sheet piles into the ground to stabilise 'embankments' for road construction.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
The agency has drawn together flood prevention options ranging from improving upland management techniques, and the blocking of moorland drainage channels, to the construction of 'embankments' or walls as local flood defences.
It was agreed with the contractor of the Deeside road that all 'embankments' should be completed by November 1796 and that no metal should be laid on the roadway ‘until March 1797’.
The Environment Agency wants to spend £4.5m raising floodwalls and 'embankments' to keep flood waters in the River Ouse channel and to allow for predicted rises in sea levels.
The bridge structure is close to completion with only the 'embankments' and access roads on both ends still to be finished over the next six months.
The fossils had been collected in the early 1840s in pits dug to provide material for the 'embankments' to carry Brunel's Great Western Railway from London to Bristol.
In Malton and Norton, defences will be a mix of reinforced concrete retaining walls, earth 'embankments' and steel sheet piling to run parallel with the river.
If your home was inundated in the floods of November 2000, or came within inches of disaster, you may just have wondered whether existing flood walls and 'embankments' should be strengthened or new ones built.
A planning application for Malton and Norton's flood defences, which will consist of 'embankments' and flood walls, will be submitted this week.
Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth 'embankments' swamping large areas of the district within half an hour.
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway 'embankments' .
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
Flood walls and 'embankments' protect large areas of lower Bootham, Clifton Green and Leeman Road, as well as North Street on the opposite bank of the river from the Guildhall.
But Environment Agency chiefs said that level should be inches below the top of the city's flood walls and 'embankments' , which protect hundreds of homes in the city.
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and 'embankments' .
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