natural levee

The only place in the area high enough to remain above the flood waters was a section of old natural levee.

The river has created oxbow lakes, marshes, and natural levees.

When the rivers flooded, silt gradually built up into natural levees.

They built on top of the natural levees that formed from dirt deposited after the river flooded.

A unique feature of the lake is that the water is above ground level surrounded by natural levees.

Development plans and agriculture depend upon the river's natural levees to drain water from low-lying areas.

It is within an abandoned meander loop, and in the periphery a natural levee.

This is especially the characteristic when such a stream is forced to flow along the base of the main river's natural levee.

Natural levees commonly form around lowland rivers and creeks without human intervention.

These deposits elevate the riverbed which flows between natural levees in its lower reaches.

Backswamps usually lie behind a stream's natural levees.

However the flow got no closer, as two natural levees further up its pathway consequently broke and diverted active flows.

Villages along natural levees of the rivers would have been inundated under several feet (metres) of water.

New Orleans was originally settled on the natural levees or high ground, along the Mississippi River.

Indeed, Mr. Babbitt called it the natural levee that holds the swamp itself in place.

In this situation, enough hydraulic head is available that any breach of the natural levees will result in an avulsion.

The land slope is from west to the south-east and formation of natural levees along the river banks is a common phenomenon.

Most of these mounds are now part of the natural levees along the Fisheating Creek.

It is situated on a natural levee on the east bank of Bayou Bartholomew.

It was considered impregnable, and was built using the natural levee of the surrounding marshlands and river.

Natural levees which flank the Mississippi prevent the Yazoo from joining it before Vicksburg.

New Orleans was originally built on natural levees along the Mississippi River that were a result of soil deposits left from the river's annual floods.

The first hugged the long, narrow ridge of higher ground along Gentilly Road, which followed the natural levee of an old bayou.

A few yards farther, he reached the submerged slope of a natural levee formed by the sediments and back currents of past floods.

Specific areas include a number of barrier islands, and the resacas or natural levees of the Laguna Madre.