Meanings of local levee in English

The commission would set standards, oversee construction, supply funds to nearly bankrupt states and local levee boards.

The Mississippi River Commission paid two-thirds of levee construction costs; local levee boards paid one-third and provided rights-of-way and land, in effect a fifty-fifty cost-sharing.

They would argue that since in the past states and local levee boards had outspent the federal government, the local contribution had already been made.

It also raised local levees.