Talk:Levee

message: I don't think dike should be merged with levee. Levee is an American term.  HoppinHill 13:41, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The question was asked in one of the edits what is a higher-high tide ... unfortunately the tide article does not cover in detail the differences in tides, but the short answer is the higher-high tide (HH) is the higher of the two high tides experienced in a tidal day.  In mid-latitutdes there are two high tides and two low tides.  These tides are further differentiated by adding "higher" or "lower".  These designations are important in this article because levee overtopping is more likely to occur on a HH tide.  What needs to be done is the tide article needs to be fixed (I've been creating a cartoon targetting the general public to illustrate flood and ebb tides along with the tides for tidal estuaries) -- but I think the levee article should stay as is, and any discussions of the physics of tides should be reserved for articles on tides.  MCalamari 16:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Higher-high tide

message: There is much more to be said about levees than the article mentions. The name of natural levees is misleading. It is true that the river banks are frequently higher than the flood plains, but that does not mean that they are levees, because practically they do not protect the flood plains against flooding, even for low floods, because in most cases they are not continuous and there are areas where the water can flow into the plains. 
One of the important problems in levees is the settlement of the levees. Therefore the compaction of the earth is extremely important. This is not mentioned in the article.
Talking about protection, it is not only grass or concrete which is used for the protection. Stones and boulders are frequently used. The plantation of willows is not generally accepted as a good solution. Willows do not have deep roots and can pe uprooted by the floods. If this occurs, the hole in the embankment can be a weak spot leading to the breach of the dyke.
The breaches of the embankments should be explained. First of all it should be understood that there is not 100% sure embankment, there is always a calculated risk of failure. There are discussions about the causes of the failure of the New Orleans embankment due to Katrina. However, regardless of the class of hurricane which occured in 2005, there definitely was a possibility of a worse hurricane hitting the area, with higher water levels which would have overtopped the embankment. All this has to be explained.
And much more.
Afil 18:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More info

message: The article cites the term "levee" as being traced back to New Orleans in 1672, but Iberville and Bienville did not establish the city until 1718.  Even the term was in use by the local population in 1672, New Orleans did not yet exist.
Wistlo (talk) 02:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Orleans in 1672? 

message: In the present edition, the article looks self-contradictory.
It does not explain the main reason to build up levees at a river as protection against floadings.
The levees may simplify delivery of water from the river to the fields, while the water is wanted.
As for a river that is danger with floadings, the building up the levees looks like making a hole in the bottom of a boat, as an intent to release the water out.
Why, when, how the construction of levees is better than just deepening of the river?
Where does the rainwater go, while the river, squeezed between the levees, flows above the mean level of ground?
Why this rainwater is not supposed to cover the land around worse, than the river without levees?
dima (talk) 09:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Levee as protector??? 

message: This line:  "The main purpose of an artificial levee is to prevent flooding of the adjoining countryside; however, they also confine the flow of the river resulting in higher and faster water flow." would be far better placed higher up the article rather than after the long-winded explanation of the origins of the word?? 132.185.240.122 (talk) 10:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a levee? 

message: I think it's worth mentioning that while the Corps did design the New Orleans levees, and supervise their construction by contractors, the majority of the levees were turned over to local ownership upon completion.  This is the common practice - a community requests flood control assistance from the government, the Corps builds a levee, for which the government pays 80% and the community 20%, and then turns ownership, and therefore responsibility for maintenance, over to the community.  The unfortunate truth is that many communities do not properly maintain the levees, which weakens them.  This was the case with many of the levees that breached in New Orleans.Virginia Ryan (talk) 16:28, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Some good points, except for that in New Orleans maintanance was not a factor in the great levee disaster of 2005, but rather bad design, as multiple studies have shown. See 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans. -- Infrogmation (talk) 18:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Army Corps

message: When the waterlevel is higher then the landlevel, water will seep through to the other side. This water needs to be drained because otherwise it will undermine the dyke. Particularly in the case of an emergency, you want to have access along the length of a dyke. It is for this reason that ditches ensure dry ground. It is said that in Dutch the dyke and the ditch are considered to be the same. I would like to see proof of that in Dutch. I doubt this very much. GerardM (talk) 00:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The dyke and ditch combination

message: If you want to have sound dykes, trees are your worst enemy. They effectively undermine the construction of a dyke. It is for this reason that sheep are kept on dykes.. "four golden legs and a golden mouth" They keep the grass close cropped and they press the ground together. They eat all the tree shoots. GerardM (talk) 00:50, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: All trees on levees are to be cut.. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 05:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Strengthening dykes with trees

message: Just FYI. — ℜob C. alias ᴀʟᴀʀoʙ 03:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Dyke is an alternate spelling. Nothing wrong with that. GerardM (talk) 05:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: It's spelled "dike," not "[[dyke]]"

message: I see that an editor has merged the Bunding article into here, without discussion. Any thoughts? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:02, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. There were already established requests suggesting that this 'Levee' article be split because of possible multiple meanings already present, so adding another meaning into here seems the wrong direction.  I'm reverting both 'Levee' and the earlier 'Bunding' article to their previous states.  The editor is welcome, and invited, to open a discussion about merging. Feline Hymnic (talk) 19:00, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It were nice if you undid only merge, instead you reverted all my edits. Military earthworks i have changed redirected already. Asided m plane (talk) 10:45, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Bunding]] 

message: Just a brief note, before you decide on any merges...
FWIW, I stumbled on the Bunding article, because I was looking for a definition of what constitutes a Bund Alarm (which, in turn, led me to this discussion).
When searching for "Bund alarm" in a well known search engine, the first 10 results were all commecial products.
They are all for monitoring the amount of oil in an oil tank (including fuel in a fuel tank).
TheAMmollusc (talk) 11:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bund alarm 

message: Hi!
In Revision as of 01:20, 31 August 2008 User:77.248.55.53 added some text including "(EWN)" at the end of one paragraph. Looks like it might be a ref of some sort but a cursory google didn't find anything. 
Any reason not to remove it?
Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 21:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  EWN 

message: Would be good if the article could also refer to the natural levees built up around debris flows. I'll do this if and when I get the time, but anyone else feel free in the meantime! DanHobley (talk) 03:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Debris flows

message: I've added this article to WP Geology. This should induce some sedimentologists to head over and run a critical eye over the natural levees section, which needs some TLC. Hope that's OK with all. DanHobley (talk) ??:??, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
:Significant rewrite for clarity on natural levees now complete. All info should still be there. DanHobley (talk) 03:31, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Geology

message: If there are no objections i'm going to over haul this article if no one objects in a day i will go ahead with my changes to the lead section and rewrite multiple sections. --Jeffrd10 (talk) 16:36, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major overhaul  

message: , you are incorrect.  Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com (click show IPA), Oxford Dictionaries.com, and Collins Dictionary all show . EvergreenFir (talk) Please  18:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I am tagging core articles with really short leads for Wikipedia:Take the lead!. I have no idea about the fragment and apologise for inadvertently reinserting it, but am trying to highlight broad articles for the competition. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:14, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: So just what is wrong with the existing lead?  What it missing from it?  Andy Dingley (talk) 13:25, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Standard way to construct is one line from each section or para. Looking at it I'd say earliest use and largest (highest and/or longest) levees worth a mention. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:34, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  tagging 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Levees also form in lava flows: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/k-lauea-volcano-lava-levees. Volcanoguy 04:11, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lava leeves