natural levee
Americannoun
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The entire delta, under natural conditions, lay above sea level, ranging from a few inches along the coastal fringe to over a dozen feet high at the crest of the Mississippi River’s natural levee.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2018
Throughout New Orleans’ first two centuries, development was densely clustered on this natural levee, making residents less vulnerable to flooding.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2015
Photograph: General Photographic Agency/Getty But massive drainage systems installed in the late-19th and early 20th centuries emptied out city-owned cypress tree swamps behind the natural levee.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2015
A natural levee, eight and ten feet high, and studded with large tree-willows, rims in the island farm like the edge of a basin.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Each side of the channel is thus raised so as to form what is termed a natural levee.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
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