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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Angelenos continue to argue over flood control, levees and recreational use of the channel.
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In flood conditions, however, brimming reservoirs sometimes spill more water than downstream rivers can handle, thus straining the levees.
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It also wanted to erect fifteen hundred miles of new levees.
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Many islands are below sea level and only the levees prevent them from vanishing.
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Officials brought in bulldozers in an effort to build a 5-foot high levee to protect property from the encroaching Sacramento.
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Other levees had been breached Friday night in similar efforts to spare populated areas.
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The levees caused the areas between to be very subject to flooding and consequently peat formation was further favoured.
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The last four of these sub-deltas were formed by levee breaches in 1839, 1860, 1874 and 1891.