- A
levee (/ˈlɛvi/), **** (American English), **** (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a
structure used to keep the
course of...
- Wotherspoon, Liam (2022). "A
standardised inventory for New Zealand's
stopbank (levee)
network and its
application for
natural hazard exposure ****essments"...
- riverbed, and in 2021 the West
Coast Regional Council planned to
elevate stopbanks by 1 m at a cost of $5.7
million to
protect neighbouring farmland from...
-
submerged in the
river on 4
January 2002,
after floodwater undermined a
stopbank supporting the
railway line,
causing a derailment.
Rangitata Diversion...
- Levees,
embankments and dams are
types of earthwork. A levee,
floodbank or
stopbank is an
elongated natural ridge or
artificially constructed dirt fill wall...
- uncommon,
especially in the area
around the
confluence of the two rivers.
Stopbanks protect farmland,
houses and
Dunedin International Airport at Momona....
- and
landslides in
Wellington City and Hutt Valley. Hutt
River burst its
stopbanks[citation needed] and
workers in
Petone took
refuge on
factory roofs while...
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features of the city. In the 20th
century the Hutt
River Board built stopbanks to
contain the river, but the
threat of
flooding from
heavy rainfall persists...
- April. On the
night of 12
April over 15,000
sandbags were
piled against a
stopbank of the
Ohinemuri River. They were also used to make dams
around shops....
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covering farms with
water and silt.
Close monitoring,
weather forecasting,
stopbanks, dams, and
reafforestation programmes in hill
country have ameliorated...
