Assertion: levee | /r/HasProperty | overtopped
Facets:
value: due to high water
type: CAUSE
value: thursday
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The possibility exists that levees can be overtopped or breached by large floods; however, levees sometimes fail even when a flood is small.
text: When levees fail, or are overtopped, the results can be catastrophic.
text: The construction of levees has allowed people to build in places that normally would have been avoided which leads to greater damages when the levee either fails or is overtopped.
text: On the other hand, over reliance on levees as a front-line of defense, rather than last-line of defense in managing flood risk, has drawn more people to live and work behind levees, intensifying development and increasing consequences should the levee fail or be overtopped.
text: It is particularly important that they understand there is still flood risk when levees are improved; and if the levees are overtopped or fail, the flooding could be catastrophic.
text: You may want to contact local officials to find out what areas are likely to flood should a levee fail or be overtopped.
text: Levees in Lewis County along the Mississippi River in northeast Missouri were overtopped Thursday, flooding several thousand acres of farmland.
text: The possibility exists that levees can be overtopped or breached by large floods; however, levees sometimes fail even when a flood is small.
text: However, some evidence shows that the initial flooding of the Ninth Ward occurred before the levees were overtopped.
text: In situations where levees are stressed, or may be overtopped, due to high water, they serve an added function of providing additional time for local emergency management officials to safely evacuate residents.
text: The possibility exists that levees can be overtopped or breached by large floods; however, levees sometimes fail even when a flood is small.
text: Levees on the Mississippi and its tributaries were overtopped or breached in over 1,000 locations.