Secondly, the armour layer shall dissipate the wave energy in order to reduce the wave run-up, overtopping and reflection.
32.
As of 1980, the dam and its eastern and western dikes can handle 73 percent of the probable maximum flood without overtopping.
33.
The wind made the river choppy and wavy, and that caused some problems with the waves coming over the levees and overtopping the sandbags.
34.
These have resulted from overwashing, overtopping, sedimentation across the whole of a seaward dipping beachface or berm ridge welding onto the upper beachface.
35.
The failure mechanism for the Industrial Canal ( east side south and west side ) was overtopping of levees and floodwalls by the storm surge.
36.
A modern example of a landslide into a reservoir lake, overtopping a dam, occurred in Italy with the Vajont Dam disaster in 1963.
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If aggradation continues to occur in the main channel, this will make levee overtopping more likely again, and the levees can continue to build up.
38.
Taking on the classic mountain shape of a pyramid, Catstye Cam draws the eye in any view where the overtopping bulk of Helvellyn is hidden behind.
39.
Dams were reported to be overtopping in Gloucester, Woburn, Andover, and Boxford, said Susan Hamilton, a spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Management.
40.
Flooding was caused by the floodwater overtopping the banks of the Cadoxton River among others and ordinary watercourses, restrictions to flow in channels and surcharging of drains.
