There are also dikes to protect other locations which have flooded in the past, such as the Pitt Polder, land adjacent to the Pitt River, and other tributary rivers.

Designed to give the public access to the president and to project a dignified public image of the presidency, they were continued by John and Abigail Adams, but not by Thomas Jefferson. A customized resistivity system for monitoring saturation and seepage in earthen levees: installation and validation".

The purpose of a levee is to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast. If there are potential underseepage issues in a levee project, a piezometer should be installed to observe groundwater fluctuations. It comprises over 5,600km (3,500mi) of levees extending some 1,000km (620mi) along the Mississippi, stretching from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to the Mississippi delta.

But Levee’s story, albeit fictional, pushes us to ask just how many stories are still overlooked today. In Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, the levée of the French queen during the reigns of Louis XV and XVI is represented.

Over a significant number of floods, this will eventually result in the building up of ridges in these positions and reducing the likelihood of further floods and episodes of levee building. The most straightforward method of dealing with weak or excessively compressible foundation soils is to simply remove them, and then backfill the excavation with suitable compacted material. This task instead fell to several different private firms and government agencies, leading to communication problems and the breakdown of various upgrade projects. The King was given a missal and the gentlemen retired into the adjoining chambre du conseil (the "council chamber") while there was a brief private prayer for the King.

First, the Master of the Bedchamber and the First Servant, both high nobles, pulled the king's nightshirt over his head, one grasping each sleeve. If a levee is to be located on foundation soils that cannot support its embankments due to inadequate shear strength, a foundation treatment is required. On the land side of high levees, a low terrace of earth known as a banquette is usually added as another anti-erosion measure.Simon Legree, Tom's master, had purchased slaves at one place and another, in New Orleans, to the number of eight, and driven them, handcuffed, in couples of two and two, down to the good steamer Pirate, which lay at the levee, ready for a trip up the Red river. Philip Pittman, The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi; with a geographical description of that river. Furthermore, levees have been built for the purpose of impoldering, or as a boundary for an inundation area. The greatest cities in human history have risen up on the banks of rivers and by the seaside, but in doing so, their builders chose to­ live in close confines with an unruly force. If necessary, landside berms should be constructed of the most pervious material, with riverside berms made of the more impervious material.

Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") [1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader, as he got up in the morning. Some of the earliest levees were constructed by the Indus Valley civilization (in Pakistan and North India from circa 2600 BCE) on which the agrarian life of the Harappan peoples depended. Levee maintenance is also a factor that must be weighed as part of the long-term viability of the project. Such streams commonly breach the levees, flowing out onto lower ground and causing catastrophic floods.Particular attention is given to the matter of surface erosion, overtopping prevention and protection of levee crest and downstream slope. The trench should be located at or near the centerline of hauled fill levees, or at or near the riverside toe of sand levees, so that it will connect with waterside impervious facings. When the river floods, during periods of high energy, the water and the load it is carrying will leave the channel. A build-up of alluvium on the banks of a river can create levees close levees A buildup of alluvium on the banks of a river which will raise the river bank due to the repeated flooding of the river. Probably as a result of an ingrained suspicion of whites in business dealings… they scarcely hesitated at all between ready cash and hypothetical sums that might come their way in the future.