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The National Convention decreed a mass levee on August 23 1793.
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What is a raised area of earth designed to hold back floodwaters?
It is called a "levee". A synonym (from the Netherlands) is "dike".
What is a levee?
A levee is an embankment that helps protect the land from a floodplain. A levee is formed when floodwater deposits material on the banks of a river, which builds up over time. The embankment slowly erodes away which is making rivers and streams wider and it can sometimes create a v-shaped valley.
A wall like structure that sticks out into the ocean?
what is the answer
What is a purpose of a levee?
to help control flooding
What is a build up of sediment deposited along the channel of a river that keeps a river inside its banks?
Levee
12 member group which issued a mass levee?
Committe of Public Safety
What is the bedside gathering of a monarch called?
It is called a levee!
What is a pier that provides a landing place on a river called?
It is called a levee.
What are walls built to hold water called?
Levee
Walls built to hold water back are called what?
Levee
What is a raised area of earth designed to hold back floodwaters?
It is called a "levee". A synonym (from the Netherlands) is "dike".
How would you use levee in a sentence?
I drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry...
Walls built built to hold back water are called?
Levee
What is a sentence with levee in it?
What is a sentence for levee
What is antonym of levee?
anti-levee
What is an embankment built along the side of a river to control fooding called?
An embankment built along the side of a river to control flooding can be called several things. Probably levee is the most common, but it can be dike or floodbank. It can also be called what you called it, an embankment.
How do you use the word levee in a sentence?
I drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.
