In addition, an earthen berm will be constructed along Kenwood Drive and Tibbs Street.

Source: https://crothersvilletimes.com/legal-notices-259/

Ming Xiao, an engineering professor at Penn State University, stands on Aug. 3 by a piled-up sand berm used as a makeshift barrier to protect parts of Utqiagvik from storm-driven flooding.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/01/04/in-northernmost-alaska-a-battle-is-on-to-limit-the-damages-of-permafrost-thaw/

One was building the trash rack to keep the flood debris out of town; the other was to raise the berm along the north edge of the diversion channel.

Source: https://www.lakesideleader.com/trash-racks-have-been-protecting-slave-lake-for-over-30-years/