Dikes

Dikes, diagonal pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others

Cheeseburger Gothic » So, Abe, got my ten bucks? 2009

Dikes and levees that channeled silt, and would have normally been allowed to build up the bayous and outer islands surrounding New Orleans, have instead been left to sink slowly into the mud.

The Lost City 2008

Dikes and canals built on upstream farms to create new pastures and fields alter water flow patterns and intensify floods downstream, affecting the natural balance between wet and dry seasons.

Pantanal Conservation Complex, Brazil 2007

DIKES: Dikes are structures constructed of earth or other suitable matwiak designed to contain water or protect lands against overflows from lakes, streams, and tides.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Should Congress Overturn Rapanos? 2007

Dikes, often a major component of wetland restoration, enhancement, or creation, can be effectively used in a wetland system to control flow paths and to minimize short-circuiting.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Should Congress Overturn Rapanos? 2007

Dikes, ditches and tide gates were created to restrict water levels and change low salt marsh to salt hay habitat.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine 2007

Dikes have given way in other parts of the county, compounding problems.

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2007 2007

Dikes and levees had failed; there's just too much water in that part of the world to wall away.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Dikes of this granite may be seen thrusting up immense masses of mica schist and quartz or sandstone schist, and making the strata fold over them on each side, as clothes hung upon a line.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Dikes are being built to create bogs in places where the rains might make it impossible to prepare all the land.

Castro Gives Closing Speech at ANAP Congress 1992