| NOUN | a natural levee | natural levees |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Older portions of the city are in the natural levee of the Damietta river.
- The Metairie Ridge, a natural levee formation of the Bayou Metairie (no longer extant, except in City Park) along whose course Metairie Road now proceeds, trends through the neighborhood and provides above-sea-level elevation for much of the land situated within a quarter of a mile of Metairie Road.
- Eoeun and Okbang make up the central area and are partially protected by a natural levee formed by terracing and changes in the flow of the Nam River.
- The street was laid out atop a slight rise, the remains of an old natural levee, in connection with the construction of the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, which became the St.
- Coming upriver on the Mississippi, Donaldsonville is the point of the first expanse of land beyond the narrow natural levee.
- It exists on higher ground, the natural levee built up by centuries of flooding before there was human settlement.
- A few of the park's old live oak trees were blown down when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, but as the park is wholly located on high ground comprising the Mississippi River's natural levee, it was spared the flooding experienced by the majority of the city after Katrina.
- The land that constituted the McHatton Home Colony would eventually become Louisiana State University and likely would have sat along Fieldhouse Drive, which sits on a ridge that acted as natural levee.
- The southern portion consists only of an earthen embankment, and is approximately 280 meters long, and the northern portion is largely a natural levee, with a length of approximately 1370 meters.
- Filhiol Mound Site is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana on a natural levee of the Ouachita River.
- Occupation continued at Middens A and B on the natural levee along Fisheating Creek, and expanded to new mounds on the prairie away from the stream meander zone.
- This is especially the characteristic when such a stream is forced to flow along the base of the main river's natural levee.
- The area formed when a breach in the natural levee of the Mississippi River occurred in 1862 approximately [...] below New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Natural levees are sloped deposits which form on the banks of channels during flooding events, serving as barriers to future floods.
- Near the former confluence was an area that was slightly more elevated than the surroundings, a natural levee, which — in an area that is prone to flooding — made it an attractive location for settlement.
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