Floodwall
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floodwall
(plural floodwalls)- A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
- 2007, May 29, John Schwartz, Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?, The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm called the standard project hurricane, a model developed with the Weather Bureau beginning in 1959 and based largely on data drawn from previous storms ...
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