embankment
ரோட்டிலிருந்து
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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.
translation of 'embankment'
நீரை நிறுத்தி வைக்கும் கரை
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An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
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.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
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.
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.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
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.
It slid off the road and down an 'embankment' on to the East Coast main line.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and 'embankments' of the main river’.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and 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.
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.
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 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.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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.
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway 'embankments' .
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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