Embankments

On the other hand, in the last 24 hours, the flood waters breached 10 embankments and damaged 3 other embankments, 92 roads, 3 bridges, several Anganwadi centres, irrigation canals, and culverts.

Embankments of snow have gotten higher and higher.

Guwahati, June 16: The flood condition in Assam deteriorated on Friday with a population of over 34,000 affected by the deluge across six districts of the state owing to heavy rainfall activity and breach of embankments, an official report said.

On Sunday, the Yom River burst its embankments and flooded Muang district in the northern province of Sukhothai, affecting approximately 1,300 households and submerging around 960 acres of farmland.

The panchayat constructed two ponds by spending ₹1 crore and strengthened the embankments of the Nooradithodu.

Beyond immediate relief, NEMA can foster long-term resilience by advocating for better infrastructure like drainage systems, embankments, and flood barriers to reduce future flooding impact.

Deadly cyclones causing flooding and destruction of coastal embankments heap misery and damage on coastal communities every year.

EWR’s preferred route would clearly score much worse than BFARe’s because of all the engineering work it would need in terms of cuttings, embankments, and viaducts (carbon embedded in concrete production).

In 1957 the state's Department of Public Works began to rebuild the embankments and create the modern flood mitigation scheme.

On the Crail to St Andrews section of the Fife Coastal Path they helped my feet hug the narrow trails on steep embankments.

Breaches on the river embankments are regular.

BWDB executive engineer of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat divisions Ariful Islam said riverbank embankments are still vulnerable at 20 points in these districts although the flood situation continued to improve there.

Roads/embankments with 174.890 km are included in these projects.

Due to wanton sand mining, the banks of the river have been eroding while embankments at some places have weakened.

Eugene Simonov, a Russian conservationist with Rivers Without Boundaries, an organization that works to preserve transboundary river basins, said the embankments were not sustainable.

The SDO blamed narrowing of the river’s flow due to construction of four small bridges by NHAI between the eastern and western embankments as the main reason for the deluge.

Zishaan has made eight trips in three years, and noticed the Brahmaputra gobble away parts in a frenzy, caused by multiple aggressors such as ill-planned dams and embankments.

It's apt that they'll be built onto the river — Victoria, Albert and Chelsea Embankments were all brought into existence during the construction of Joseph Bazalgette's original sewers for London over 150 years ago, by building into the river.

Sea water inundation in low lying areas after erosion of Kutcha embankments.

The floods had also damaged crops over 2,378 hectares of land and infrastructure, including roads, bridges and embankments, the report added.