embankment
tambak
definition
noun
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.
example
a railway 'embankment'
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.
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.
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.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
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.
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.
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' .
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.
According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth 'embankments' protecting agricultural land.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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 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.
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.
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.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
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 work will involve the construction of maximum strength earth 'embankments' and masonry walls along the Derwent, as well as the installation of floodgates, penstocks and flood valves.
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.
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and 'embankments' .
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
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.
The landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
The epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and 'embankments' of the main river’.
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 proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth 'embankments' .
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