An artificial wall, embankment, ridge, or mound, usually of earth or rock fill, built around a relatively flat, low-lying area to protect it from flooding.
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And it better lead where you say, back to the levee road.
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She knew what it was; the Mississippi had broken through the levee.
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They decided that the levee board would issue bonds to pay them.
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The only protection to the city from the river is the levee.
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From Cairo south, every levee board was operating on a twenty-four-hour basis.
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But wind and wave action was pushing water over the canal levee.
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The levee was deserted save for the negroes and the river men.
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On the levee it varied from six to thirty inches in depth.
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On May 12 miles of the Bayou des Glaises levee simply crumbled.
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After the storm, studies found the levee system had been poorly constructed.
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A rising Mississippi presses against a levee with immense and increasing weight.
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Gangs of men were busy working the north levee in Helena, Arkansas.
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Only ten earth-moving levee machines were available for 800 miles of levees.
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It had gone down nearly six inches, and the levee had held.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest A levee during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
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The river was overflowing the levee along a front of several miles.
