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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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.
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
a railway 'embankment'
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.
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.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
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.
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.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
The document proposes strengthening and raising flood 'embankments' alongside the River Ouse, which protect homes in the Leeman Road area, but which were almost overwhelmed in 2000.
It said the flood walls and 'embankments' being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
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.
The erosion in Ketahun district in North Bengkulu regency had already damaged parts of the highway, and road 'embankments' built on five-meter-high cliffs had collapsed due to the continuous pounding of waves early this year.
A planning application for Malton and Norton's flood defences, which will consist of 'embankments' and flood walls, will be submitted this week.
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway 'embankments' .
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.
Despite this I was pleased to see that Armitt is emphasising the need to repair bridges, viaducts, 'embankments' and signal boxes rather than glamorous projects like the West Coast Route Modernisation.
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 landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
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.
The approved scheme, which should start in May and continue until the end of 2003, will contain the Derwent within flood walls and 'embankments' varying in height between 1.4m and 1.7m.
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.
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’.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth 'embankments' swamping large areas of the district within half an hour.
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and 'embankments' .
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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.
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