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Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
No, the levees are man-made embankments, built in the hope of preventing the Mississippi River from flooding the surrounding area.
..... stop floods, just like the levees on the Mississippi.
By building levees up you are able to "funnel" more water down stream to a point that has not been built up! This will cause more water to over flow the river banks creating a worse flood condition!
One pro is that the levees help protect the land from a floodplain. Also, the levees help during hurricanes [that's the only one..I think]. But sometimes the levees are not always useful. Just like hurricane Katrina, the levees didn't help or work when the water flooded over from the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Levees, the Mississippi delta & Flood Plain.
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
the rivers don't flood, but the Louisiana wetlands are lost from the levees.