embankment
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definition
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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.
It slid off the road and down an 'embankment' on to the East Coast main line.
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.
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
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.
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.
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.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth 'embankments' .
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and 'embankments' .
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.
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.
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.
Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth 'embankments' swamping large areas of the district within half an hour.
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
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.
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.
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.
The engineers of Spt Coy needed the pile driver to hammer four-metre sheet piles into the ground to stabilise 'embankments' for road construction.
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' .
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 epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and 'embankments' of the main 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.
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