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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Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
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.
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.
a railway 'embankment'
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
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.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
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.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
The landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
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.
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.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth 'embankments' .
Malton, Norton and Old Malton - some of the towns worst hit by flooding - will receive £6.3m for a programme involving building 'embankments' and walls along the River Derwent.
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway 'embankments' .
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 epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and 'embankments' of the main river’.
The city's Bureau of Public Works prepared about 140,000 sandbags and distributed them to emergency rescue teams in each city district and to areas with unfinished river 'embankments' .
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.
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
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.
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.
A planning application for Malton and Norton's flood defences, which will consist of 'embankments' and flood walls, will be submitted this week.
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.
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.
Where capital was readily available, as on most European main lines, civil engineering could defy topography, and span great valleys on 'embankments' and viaducts, and drive tunnels through mountain ridges.
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