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Recent Examples of seawall
Found mostly in southern Florida, iguanas stick to rocky areas like seawalls and protective riprap barriers.
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Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
Of course there will be lines of defense, such as seawalls, and sandbags.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Part of the seawall by the pier was washed out, as was a section of the road on the east tip of the island, Cozzie said.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
The idea of painting the back of the seawall to showcase the area’s marine habitat was floated as well.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Its first civil works project in the Philadelphia region was the construction of a breakwater near Cape Henlopen, Delaware, in 1829.—
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SailGP saw 12 teams on one start line for the first time Saturday, and within the confines of the breakwater in the Port of Los Angeles, the racetrack would be congested, possibly the tightest yet seen.—
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Stay off of beaches, rocks, jetties, piers, and other waterside infrastructure.—
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Large, unexpected waves can sweep across the beach without warning, sweeping people into the sea from rocks, jetties, and beaches.—
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According to police, a preliminary investigation indicated that the Jeep was attempting to exit onto the ramp for southbound I-83 when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle lost control and hit the embankment then a tree before catching fire.—
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Auvers-sur-Oise’s mayor, Isabelle Mézières, has for five years argued that the embankment was public property, but earlier this month, an appeals court in Versailles sided with Jean-François and Hélène Serlinger, the owners of a residence that includes where van Gogh made Tree Roots (1890).—
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Image Most of the storm’s damage so far has been caused by floodwaters that overtopped riverbanks and levees, surged through streets and inundated the basements and ground floors of buildings.—
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Dams and levees lead to less frequent flooding, but erosion and deforestation mean more catastrophic floods when these barriers are breached.—
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Already, workers have partially deconstructed the existing dam, dumped fill material and poured concrete for the expansion.—
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The dam holds back a river near Popovka, a border settlement in Belgorod.—
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The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.—
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Miss Maynard’s class is building Holland on a small scale in one of their sandbox tables with dikes, towers, windmills, boys with wooden shoes and girls with flaxen hair.—
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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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