Picture of a floodwall of a N.O. drainage canal here. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
ZARRELLA: The giant floodwall will run alongside major highways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2001] Reference
The total length of the repaired floodwall is approximately 455 '. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"] Reference
You know, here, the wall here is only like this big, the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005] Reference
I mean, and this is not the only place where a floodwall was breached. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005] Reference
We had a floodwall failure on 17th Street, two on London Avenue Canal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005] Reference
The storm pushed its floodwall past its limits overtopping the head of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008] Reference
I'm just glad you weren't in charge during the levee and floodwall failures. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
I'm standing on top of the patched section of the 17th Street Canal floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2005] Reference
It was just that erosion that happened under the seawall, under the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2005] Reference
Earlier this week, he criticized the city for its lack of a protective floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2001] Reference
BUHEVDA: And then unflooded would be this area that would be behind the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2001] Reference
And then, Walter, if you pan right, you'll see the floodwall, which has metal beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2005] Reference
He has built a floodwall and with pumps around what he's called a light span (ph) cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2008] Reference
Answer: The new floodwall was constructed to more stringent post-Katrina design standards. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"] Reference
On the right side here, there's the 17th Street Canal, there's the floodwall that's intact. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2005] Reference
I'm standing on top of the repaired breach, that huge breach in the 17th Street Canal floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2005] Reference
But there were still concerns about pressure on the levees and floodwall system, the paper notes. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Steals Spotlight] Reference
California will, before the night is over tomorrow, be labeled the floodwall that turned back the. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: My Final Midterm Election Picks] Reference
M. O'BRIEN: Tom, you referred to that floodwall, which was built after the '97 floods, bad floods. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference
Eventually that floodwall let go and the storm was well up into Mississippi by the time this happened. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2005] Reference
You know, my house is less than a mile from the London Avenue levee break, the floodwall collapse there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2006] Reference
And it eats away at the soil, at the bottom of the floodwall, causing the wall to theoretically collapse. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
"You can see there is still a foot and a half of floodwall left," he shouted above the din of the tempest. From Wordnik.com. [Gustav’s Wallop] Reference
If you look out at that floodwall there in the distance, that is where a barge crashed in to the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2007] Reference
They're planning to drop giant, 3,000-pound sandbags into the 17th Street Canal floodwall that's been breached. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference
The people here -- this is the wall, the floodwall that was pushing back all that water right on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008] Reference
Their floodwall that was built in '97, after the huge flood that devastated this area, seems to be holding steady. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference
Supporting pilings for the floodwall were driven to 95 'feet deep on the flood side and 110' on the protected side. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"] Reference
The Sudoku puzzle is not challenging, and the Metro section is so thin you couldn't even stuff a floodwall with it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Everything on the other side of that floodwall over there is dry and obviously has a much better chance of recovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2005] Reference
So, I mean, I'm not sure what their point is, I mean, because there are other places where we had floodwall failures. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005] Reference
Officials face the task of removing about 3 million sandbags in the city after the Red River fell below the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Photos: April 1] Reference
Wet spots closer to the canal and floodwall were tested approximately six weeks ago and were determined to be brackish. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"] Reference
Efforts to build concrete caps and segments of floodwall along the canal were complicated by shifting soil, the company said. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
You can see the floodwall there, and you can see there is some seepage there coming from the bottom of that floodwall spilling out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
While some pumps are back online and beginning to de-water the city, water is still coming into New Orleans through a break in a floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2005] Reference
CALLEBS: That's important because during Katrina, wind-driven water rushed down the canal and rapid erosion caused a floodwall to give way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2008] Reference
By the evening, only one road was left open through the floodwall. From Wordnik.com. [Asia Times Online] Reference
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