A levee breach on the Parajo River caused by rainstorms resulting in flooding in the town of Parajo.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/12/california-suffers-power-losses-and-two-deaths-after-latest-storms

An expansive home along 6th Avenue sits in rising floodwaters after levee breaks caused extensive flooding around Corcoran, Calif., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/mar/29/latest-storm-piles-more-snow-on-california-mountains/

A second breach opened up another 100 feet (30.48 meters) of the levee closer to the Pacific coast, providing a “relief valve” for the floodwaters to recede near the mouth of the river, officials said Monday during a news conference.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-national-weather-service-water-east-coast-pacific-ocean-b2300639.html

Before the arrival of the highly engineered levee system, the river naturally flooded the delta with land-building sediment.

Source: https://thelensnola.org/2023/08/13/addressing-our-coastal-crisis-head-on/

Belleman said he supports the project because it will conform with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requirements and cost nothing for the authority and levee fee payers.

Source: https://www.mydallaspost.com/news/184540/murals-planned-on-some-luzerne-county-flood-protection-authority-properties

"In situations where the floodwaters are dissipating, it's still quite close to the levee banks, that's still a key area of focus," he said.

Source: https://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/8040218/left-in-the-wake-reflecting-on-the-2022-floods/?src=rss

It may be possibly the best zeppelin song, but the older I get, four english 22 year olds playing the blues and singing about the levee in the river giving way becomes more and more ridiculous with each passing year.

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The Chevy down by the levee because the levee is still dry.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/things-america-is-throwing-out-while-spring-cleaning

The Chevy down by the levee because the levee is still dry.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/things-america-is-throwing-out-while-spring-cleaning

The levee along the Bay had failed creating a water risk to the Highway 84 approach to the Dumbarton Bridge.

Source: https://inmenlo.com/2023/02/03/25-years-ago-today-san-francisquito-creek-flooded/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=25-years-ago-today-san-francisquito-creek-flooded

Then, there are limitations that come with raising a levee when water already is pushing against it.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/216239

The state will shoulder the $17 million needed to raise the 14.5-mile Corcoran levee an additional four feet, protecting the city from rising floodwaters.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-06-27/a-california-tribe-wants-to-keep-water-in-tulare-lake

The water behind the levee is already at 178 feet (54 meters), just 10 feet (3 meters) below the top.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/25/as-epic-snow-melts-a-california-community-braces-for-floods/

"This could be the year that every federal MP really should have the most well-attended and busy New Year's levee they've ever had," she said.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/december-toronto-council-wrap-up-1.7061399?cmp=rss

We had a flood control levee project that just happened to get a big fence on it.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/28/cartel-influence-over-border-is-really-frightening-texas-land-commissioner-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cartel-influence-over-border-is-really-frightening-texas-land-commissioner-says

You have the levee and you have water on either side.

Source: https://wbhm.org/2023/qa-why-preventing-flooding-in-mississippis-yazoo-backwater-is-easier-said-than-done/