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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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.
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.
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.
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
a 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.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
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.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
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 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 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 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.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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 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.
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway '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 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.
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 landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and '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.
According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth 'embankments' protecting agricultural land.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
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.
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