ice jam
ice rampart

Ice jams of some significance occur about every other year.

The river is known for ice jams during the spring freshet.

However, an early spring and ice jam destroyed the piers.

Thus in most northern areas governments quickly act to break up the ice jams before they can do much damage.

A severe ice jam also developed behind the dam on this date.

High temperatures during the following couple of days added to the ice jam, and several families were forced from their homes by the rising water.

Senator Lieberman called the speech "an important statement that could break the ice jam and result in a major agreement."

But in 1902 water backed up from an ice jam and flooded it again, washing away the old building.

Ice jams due to a quick thaw led to this flood.

Fears that the bridge would give way during the spring ice jams worsened.

Ice jams and dam failures can also cause flash floods.

Flooding from the ice jam necessitated the evacuation of about thirty homes.

Cazenovia Creek is well known for its annual ice jams in the early spring when temperatures rise.

Additionally, minor flooding was reported across the region, as a result of heavy surface runoff and small ice jams.

With an unusual ability to see an old problem in a new light, Dr. 't hooft broke the ice jam.

Flooding may be caused by various reasons, such as heavy rain in the vicinity of the river, melting snow, and/or ice jams.

These ice jams can cause considerable damage to structures along the riverbanks and on the floodplain.

Terrible ice jams were a routine hazard on the Potomac River into the 1960s.

There was relatively little scouring of the stream bottoms by ice jams and uprooted trees.

Ms. Stash says that a large rubber dam attached to the present structure will ward off problems from ice jams.

He dragged the hide downstream along the bank until he was even with the ice jam in the Shaum.

The flooding, like those in the past, was caused mostly by ice jams in the Missouri River.

These floods are more of an inconvenience than a danger, but can be more serious, especially when ice jams dam up the water.

Minnesota is prone to flooding in its major rivers by spring snowmelt runoff and ice jams.

There is always a chance that the ice flows could collide creating an ice jam and blocking the river.

The desert part of the name derives from the dust that can rise from a course that is essentially one giant sand trap wrapped around water hazards consisting of ponds of glacial meltwater and a frigid, milky river running straight from the frozen two-mile-high ice ramparts of the interior.