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The Mississippi River is leveed between Baton Rouge and the mouth of the river, so the only sources of possible contamination along this stretch are permitted industrial discharges and marine traffic accidents.

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Without such diversions, the Mississippi, leveed by the Corps, will continue to dump its sediment deep into the Gulf of Mexico, and the coastal wetlands of Louisiana -- which historically have acted as a buffer against the severity of hurricanes -- will continue their recent erosion at the rate of a football field each hour.

Harry Shearer: Is It too Late for a Sense of Urgency? 2009

The bottomland forests have been cleared and the region has been extensively leveed and modified for agriculture, flood control, and navigation.

Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

It's been known for years that, as the Corps keeps the Mississippi River channel clear for navigation, it dumps what it dredges in the Gulf of Mexico -- at the same time that the state's coastal wetlands, deprived of sediment from the leveed-off river (and damaged by thousands of miles of pipelines and canals serving the oil industry), continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

Harry Shearer: Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers 2009

Is there a legitimate scientist in the world who doubts that tobacco smoke kills people, that air pollution kills people, that rising sea levels expose more sea water to sunlight that evaporates the water that affects the wind and temperature that makes the hurricanes that top the levees that hold back the lake that, when un-leveed, kills people?

Davis Sweet: Stop the Presses! A Right-Winger Lies! 2008

Cropland dominates the leveed bottomlands of the Red River. 35a.

Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

The Mississippi River and its associated tributaries have been heavily channelized and leveed throughout the region.

Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA) 2008

But -- when they are engineered, drilled, dredged, channeled, leveed, and drained -- well, this is when things go bad.

R. Jude Wilber: It's the Sedimentology, Stupid 2008

Sanctions were leveed on South Africa and what happened?

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LIEBERMAN: Is it also correct that Mr. Bahamonde told you that during the helicopter ride he could see that the leveed had broken.

CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2006 2006