How To Use Embank In A Sentence

A typical railway line is mainly characterized by two main types of scenario: viaduct and embankment.
It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
As there was no abatement of the blows of the boat against the embankment, no reply nor explanation, a shot from the gun of one of the levee-watch came skipping lightsomely over the water as The Crucial Moment 1911
We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap, as well as linnets, once a common bird that seems to be disappearing.

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Arriving at the pickup point early, she honked the horn and kept on honking until Peter finally appeared and descended from a high embankment on a slideway of fractured sandstone. From This Beloved Hour
Some of the mining operations show this, and the Fens have Roman canals, embankments, and elaborate water systems.
In Malton and Norton, defences will be a mix of reinforced concrete retaining walls, earth embankments and steel sheet piling to run parallel with the river.
Malton, Norton and Old Malton - some of the towns worst hit by flooding - will receive £6.3m for a programme involving building embankments and walls along the River Derwent.
Many engineering construction utilize embankment, for, abutment , retaining wall , foundation pad , base backfill and so on.
To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months.
The brave Negro troops went forward at a double-quick; the skirmishers were the first to reach the embankments, and were greeted with a shower of bullets which tumbled many headlong and lifeless into the pits. A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia.
One of the inspectors was walking along the embankment outside, his coat collar turned up against the wind. Somewhere East of Life
Their neighbour agreed, saying: ‘The embankment is full of molehills.’
The jet device can measure the erosion potential of a soil in vegetated channels, road embankments, dams, spillways, and construction sites.
Grids lay upon the landscape reducing meandering rivers and their jagged embankments to scenic enjoyments or inconveniences to overcome.
From the stone walls and landscaped embankments to the sweep of the footbridges and the modern viaduct that carries the road over the river, this scheme was designed not just not to offend the eye but to please it.
Nor did I have the urge to linger on the Neva embankment with Charsky.
It might be the remote town below would take a different air, and my companion the botanist, with his educated observation, might almost see as much, and the train, perhaps, would be gone out of the picture, and the embanked straightness of the Ticino in the Ambri-Piotta meadows — that might be altered, but that would be all the visible change. A Modern Utopia
They excavated a space, to the depth of three or four feet, and used the earth they threw out to embank the walls raised upon the edge of the excavation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
The six giant grey cattle thundered along the embankment, their nostrils jetting steam in the cold air of a Hungarian autumn morning.
A boy from the Jewish Quarter's religious youth movement kindled the Chanukah lights in large cans on an embankment near the gate.
She hadn't even got out of bed when we arrived and so we left her to get herself mended and wandered off, in a dizzy haze towards the Putney Embankment.
The tour will start on the Victoria Embankment of the Thames, near Blackfriars Station, and pass the Houses of Parliament.
Suddenly, Urlacher steps over one of the fences, breaks into a jog down an embankment and on to the field.
The conservancies are located in the "backland" or upper stream catchment areas and comprise water-retaining embankments and structures. Water profile of Guyana
The van slipped down the embankment.
Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth embankments swamping large areas of the district within half an hour.
The epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and embankments of the main river’.
We had sought relief on a shady spot on the embankment and were sitting under a willow tree. WALKING THE BIBLE
Where capital was readily available, as on most European main lines, civil engineering could defy topography, and span great valleys on embankments and viaducts, and drive tunnels through mountain ridges.
The vehicle careered off the road and tumbled down an embankment. Broken Lives
If the marsh is divided by an actual river, it may be best to embank it in two separate tracts; losing the margins, that have been recommended, outside of the dykes, and building the necessary additional length of these, rather than to contend with a large body of water. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
Building drains and embankments, he reclaimed large areas of land which then became productive farmland.
The aircraft hit the embankment short of the threshold, sliding up it, turning through 90-deg and coming to a stop.
The patch is embanked and frequently inundated, and each plant grows on a small hillock of puddled earth. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The city's Bureau of Public Works prepared about 140,000 sandbags and distributed them to emergency rescue teams in each city district and to areas with unfinished river embankments.
He had acquired the agility of a cliff-dweller from scaling the embankment by means of the "toe-holts"; yet, at that, it was no easy matter to transport a bucket of water without spilling it. The Dude Wrangler
The train driver said he had just left New Pudsey station in the dawn light when he saw what he thought was a tailor's dummy between the railway line and the embankment ahead of him.
But that would immediately be reversed by the entire court embank. CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2005
“Hi, Jake!” she called eagerly as she ran up the embankment to the road. BLOWN AWAY!
At many construction sites along the highway, Ku and thousands of workers used cobbles, which are densely packed in gabions, to build firm and solid embankments.
It isn't so long since we were carrying stories and readers' letters complaining about the state of the railway embankments on the approaches to Bradford.
The club wants to create a protective ‘bund’ or embankment barrier on a grassed riverbank area close to stepping stones on the River Wharfe.
However, with the road wet from the showers that had been falling in the district, it aquaplaned off the road and went nose-first into the embankment.
Thirty yards out from the town goal on the grass embankment was where our group could be found.
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
And should every proprietor exercise his equal right to embank all his own lands, and thus the general operation shall strive to confine the river within the limits of its shores, the attempt must fail, and the floods, rising higher in proportion to their lateral confinement, will overtop any dykes which can be made by separate individuals, each working on his own separate plan. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
In old days -- in Captain Cai's young days -- it ran up for half a mile or more to an embanked mill-pool and a mill-wheel lazily turning: and Rilla Farm had in those days been Rilla Mill, with a farmstead attached as the miller's _parergon_. Hocken and Hunken
On sunny summer days it is possible to enjoy the dancing of the butterflies on the wild flower-rich embankments.
The Maigue is tidal as far as Adare, and is embanked along most of its distance.
The nine carriages crashed off the track and down a steep embankment. Times, Sunday Times
King Alfred the Great is said to have responded by building weirs and embankments on the river to lower the water-level, so stranding the Danish fleet upstream.
The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton.
Chapter Twelve The next day, we broke camp and, taking the ogre2s horse along, joined the narrow trail of the pass once more, beginning our descent of the mountains through a steep, embanked region where the plants had frozen the night before. Virginity
The Thames rose and burst through the embankment walls without warning. Times, Sunday Times
And, about 38 kilometers outside of Arica, which is Chile's northernmost city, apparently, the bus went over a steep embankment. CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006
It was decided to ignore the protective gabion walls alongside the toe of the embankment for the purpose of the ranking.
Singh said the canal bed would remain "kutcha", which will help in water recharging while embankments would be "pucca" as it would prevent wild vegetation in the canals and supply water faster. Top Headlines
I went through a hedge, down an embankment and ended up just yards from a river.
The land is sinking, due to isostacy and the compaction of sediments, much faster than the sea is rising, because rivers are now embanked and not allowed to deposit new sediment on the flood plains. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an embankment onto the railway line had set off the accident.
Embankment; but things looked brighter for next week, and he might possibly get in a few days 'work and have a bed in some doss-house. CORONATION DAY
It is proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Railtrack engineers worked around the clock to re-open the line - but a 20 mph limit will remain for at least three months as a £5m reinforcement of the embankment takes place.
Passengers had to climb a steep 20ft embankment, leap a barrier and dart across two lanes of traffic. The Sun
If your home was inundated in the floods of November 2000, or came within inches of disaster, you may just have wondered whether existing flood walls and embankments should be strengthened or new ones built.
This is another small river, embanked for all of its length, with a depth of up to 5 feet.
The aircraft weathercocked about 70° to the left and slid backward down a snow-covered embankment with an average slope of -13°.
Little more than a dirt track, the road dipped down off the embanked highway and disappeared into the trees. Armageddon's Children
The stone embankment came up in Hari Singh's regime and was further concretized by the successive governments.
Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light.
Here the path wobbles above, up on the old railway embankment. Times, Sunday Times
Their legacy are the great embankments, viaducts, tunnels and bridges that cover the face of Britain, in many cases still visible long after the trains they served have disappeared.
The lines, characterised by deep cuttings, high embankments, tunnels and viaducts, were known by locomotive crews as the Alpine Route.
As we reached the dip before the main road away from the lake, the car slid into an embankment.
Waiting for the bus, he looked out across terraced fields, at men, alone or in groups, standing on embankments between fields of paddy.
With some of the trees drooping over the stone embanked, tiny rivulet - they cast kaleidoscopic reflections in its waters.
The landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large embankments blocking the view.
He was on his way to a garage to have his car resprayed when it spun out of control and went down an embankment.
The fossils had been collected in the early 1840s in pits dug to provide material for the embankments to carry Brunel's Great Western Railway from London to Bristol.
Embankments, bridges and viaducts were likely to cause the greatest visual intrusion, he added.
While the broad gauge may have had some advantages, these were offset by its extra expense - wider tunnels, cuttings, bridges and embankments, and the extra land required.
In a split second, the vehicle moved to the side of the road before hitting the kerb and going off the carriageway, smashing through a fence and down an embankment.
He raised his head and saw the steep embankment wall behind us. Times, Sunday Times
The vehicle careered off the road and tumbled down an embankment. Broken Lives
Found a nice spot on the cement embankment, away from the spray, and sat down to contemplate on life.
Some miles further on, the belt of fields narrowed beside the river and I could see beyond them to the railway embankment. The Crossing-Place
The bridge structure is close to completion with only the embankments and access roads on both ends still to be finished over the next six months.
This is another small river, embanked for all of its length, with a depth of up to 5 feet.
It was taken this morning, and shows only a small number of the Canada geese and goslings that have more or less taken over the area near the Newnham bridge side of the Embankment.
On Wednesday afternoon the Environment Service decided to stop excavating the sports ground embankment where the suspect soil is located until Dr Jenkins had an opportunity to inspect the site.
They can't really in good faith go to the circuit court, because there was a 10-2 embank decision against them. CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2005
Woolwich is one of those few places along the Thames where high ground reaches through the marshes that existed before the river was embanked. The embarrasing thing we must never mention
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments.
Yes, we catch the water through an embankment and the water recharges the underground aquifers.
Leaving the church you will observe, on ascending, a large embankment of lixiviated earth thrown out by the miners more than thirty years ago, the print of wagon wheels and the tracks of oxen, as distinctly defined as though they were made but yesterday; and continuing on for Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter
They had continued to follow the stone dalles of the embankment and were now near the end of the Quai; he stopped short again, and again stared at the mountains. A Woman's Will
It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area.
The road was more like a stone-quarry than a carriageable public highway, so encumbered was it with granite fragments, heaped ready for top-dressing and finishing; and the bridge led on to a raised embankment, coming to a sudden fissure, where the old coach-road crossed it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
The document proposes strengthening and raising flood embankments alongside the River Ouse, which protect homes in the Leeman Road area, but which were almost overwhelmed in 2000.
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After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like The Complete Father Brown
We should reinforce the river embankment before the wet season.sentence dictionary
Why there are oceans of "abiotic" oil under our very feet just waiting for a Jed Clampett to fire his squirrel gun into an embankment. Good News on UAE Port Deal
Flood walls and embankments protect large areas of lower Bootham, Clifton Green and Leeman Road, as well as North Street on the opposite bank of the river from the Guildhall.
Following public concern over the disaster, gabions - wire cages filled with stone - were positioned at the bottom of the M62 embankment to prevent another vehicle running off the motorway on to the railway.
As the fans took their places in the designated embankments and stands, the anticipation grew.
The waves washed over the sea embankment with a loud crashing noise.
Cobbles are densely confined in gabions to form substantial units of amenity embankments.
The train left the track and plunged down the embankment.
The Environment Agency wants to spend £4.5m raising floodwalls and embankments to keep flood waters in the River Ouse channel and to allow for predicted rises in sea levels.
Some were impoldered with embankments, pumps, and deep canals, but those proved hard to maintain.
The work will involve the construction of maximum strength earth embankments and masonry walls along the Derwent, as well as the installation of floodgates, penstocks and flood valves.
Stanley died Saturday after a car he was driving swerved off a highway and hit trees down an embanked near Mareeba in Queensland, Australia, The Associated Press reports. Owsley "Bear" Stanley, '60s Counterculture Icon and LSD Producer, Dies at 76
The car reversed in a semi-circle across the car park before its rear wheels became stuck in an earth embankment. Times, Sunday Times
He crawled down the railway embankment to get it working. Times, Sunday Times
Playing on the railway embankment was well beyond that tolerance.
One was a scene of the Embankment at night, the other a nocturne, Tower Bridge by moonlight, a barquentine drifting downriver. A SEASON IN HELL
The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance.
None of the 181 people aboard were hurt as the jetliner hurtled off the strip in Jackson Hole and hit a three-foot snow embankment. Pilots, Mechanical Problems Faulted in American Air Mishap
Everything went on as it had, emotions scattered, crews sprayed turf onto embankments, lights went off remotely.
On the straining embankments of Dongting lake - which is the size of Luxembourg - an army of one million peasants were mobilised to support the efforts of 115,000 troops as waves crested over the top of levies.
We call its motion a uniform translation (uniform because it is of constant velocity and direction, translation because although the carriage changes its position relative to the embankment yet it does not rotate in so doing). Chapter 5. The Principle of Relativity (In the Restricted Sense)
Long triangular houses of the width of the summit of these embankments, with their doorways opening upon the square, and with the interior comparted in the form of stalls upon each side of a central passage way, would realize, with the inclosed court, some of the features and nearly all the advantages of the New Mexican pueblo houses. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
Your readers may have noticed the massive tree massacre taking place along the railway embankment between the station and Collingwood Road; nearly all the trees have been cut down and turned into piles of woodchips.
I bussed to Kennington, from where I caught the Northern Line to Embankment.
Back in the 1950s, the Hay Report recommended reclaiming the land through embankments and dams.
There is at least one family of foxes in the railway embankment behind us. Times, Sunday Times
In 1845 an estimated 740 million bricks were used in stations, bridges, aqueducts, and embankments under construction.
The "squatty" looking clock tower, which appears as if part of a church spire, had been carried away by a high wind and dropped down on this embankment. Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and embankments.
Areas scraped out for the embankments filled with water over the wet winter and birds are already nesting there.
From the porch of Fembank, he had a commanding view of Mitford.
I kept trying to take the most direct route across verges and up embankments and over undesignated crossings.
The vehicle careered off the road and tumbled down an embankment. Broken Lives
It allowed for the building of locks, tow paths, basins, dams, wharves, embankments, and toll houses.
It was 1973 or maybe 74 and my sister and I were in our double pushchair, being wheeled along the Embankment in London by our mother, on an anti-Pinochet march, after the coup against Allende.
The river slaps the embankment as you tiptoe between swaying tomato plants, through an impressive herb garden, past an infant hop plant and a potted olive tree. Times, Sunday Times
And the sonorous souls of Russian verbs, lend a meaning to the wild gesticulation of trees or to some discarded newspaper sliding and pausing, and shuffling again, with abortive flaps and apterous jerks along an endless windswept embankment. Anecdotal Evidence
I could taste the smoke in my mouth and smell the nightshade growing up the embankment and feel my mum's hand on my arm.
Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and embankments to prevent flooding every day of the year.
Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness.
When the traffic finally started to move, I passed an embankment on the right hand side of the motorway which was covered with grazing sheep.
We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap.
Keep the bungalows on your left and, at the end of the row, keep straight on along a grassy path that follows an embankment. Times, Sunday Times
The agency has drawn together flood prevention options ranging from improving upland management techniques, and the blocking of moorland drainage channels, to the construction of embankments or walls as local flood defences.
The collective building of dykes to reclaim tidal marshes for cultivation and maintenance of the embankments also encouraged interfamilial cooperation among the Acadians. Champlain's Dream
Across the road from the embankment electric lights shone on melons and other fruit in stalls: a refreshing night scene, after the glare and colorlessness of the day. Among the Believers
The dens were usually dug into embankments within or beneath black spruce that were forming a krummholz of cloned stems.
The work will involve the construction of maximum strength earth embankments and masonry walls along the Derwent, as well as the installation of floodgates, penstocks and flood valves.
The wall at Pinfold Cottage will be repaired and a short section of new embankment is also proposed next to the washland.
Cement is an expensive material, which provides a strong incentive for the contractor to "economize" in its use, with mutual distribution of the resulting "savings" Providing water for curing concrete, plaster, or mortar in brickwork, or for moisture control in embankment compaction, can also be a costly item for the contractor, who may have an incentive to reduce or eliminate its use, often with the collaboration of the inspector who may be under considerable pressure to cooperate. Chapter 13
In the lower sections the rivers are embanked, which allows for gravity-fed irrigation, especially along the Shabelle. Water profile of Somalia
Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light.
One was a scene of the Embankment at night, the other a nocturne, Tower Bridge by moonlight, a barquentine drifting downriver. A SEASON IN HELL
Beyond these stones was an embanked avenue leading across the landscape to the northeast.
It condemned the dredging and embankment of the Joumine and Malah canals which dry out the marshes, encourage halophyte growth and access by poachers, and recommended a visitor center and cleaning up pollution from the hammams. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
He told the council last Tuesday that speed restrictions have already been put on trains as they go over the embankment close the village railway station.
A 2007 Nissan Sentra was traveling west on W.Va. 9 and a 2009 Toyota Yaris traveling eastbound struck it in what police described as a sideswipe manner, causing the Toyota to run over an embankment, rolling onto its side against a tree. The Journal
Despite many bridges, viaducts, embankments, cuttings and tunnels the lines twist and turn in detours around the hills.
Construction of levees and embankments prevents the floodplain from performing this function and transfers the problem further downstream to areas which were not subject to flooding.
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway embankments.
The engineers of Spt Coy needed the pile driver to hammer four-metre sheet piles into the ground to stabilise embankments for road construction.
In 1845 an estimated 740 million bricks were used in stations, bridges, aqueducts, and embankments under construction.
The slave and the guildsman know where they will sleep every night; it was only the proletarian of individualist industrialism who could get the sack, if not in the style of the Bosphorus, at least in the sense of the Embankment. Eugenics and Other Evils
Residents have complained about rubbish along the embankments and footpaths, overgrown shrubs and uncut grass verges, graffiti on brickwork and overhead bridges, and lack of working CCTV cameras.
Hedge hesitated for a moment, then leapt up the embankment with inhuman dexterity, into the trees. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The roadway surfaces and embankment slopes, where disturbed, to be restored to a condition not inferior to that in which they are found before the works are commenced.
Many embankments, timber revetments and masonry river walls from the 10th to the 15th centuries were recovered, and tonnes of artefacts retrieved.
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
It says over time it hopes to eradicate trees on trackside embankments, cutting delays and saving resources because clean-ups will not have to be so frequent.
Another man was killed this time last year when the truck he was driving veered off the road and down the railway embankment on to the tracks.
Loud voices, and then thick clouds of yellow dust, coming from behind the highest and brushiest line of the embankment, attested to the truth of Jean's observation, and also to a reckless disregard of danger. To the Last Man
After this I found four nests in cane-clumps on the sides of roads, but they were empty, and as the birds abandoned them in due course I despaired of getting any eggs; but on the 15th June, while going along a road, the edges of which were bounded by the small embankments natives throw up round their holdings, and which are always overgrown with 'sone' grass, I saw one of these birds with a straw in its bill disappear at the root of a small date-tree. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Sniffing alone or in dangerous places, such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky.
The approved scheme, which should start in May and continue until the end of 2003, will contain the Derwent within flood walls and embankments varying in height between 1.4m and 1.7m.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an embankment, killing the driver.
Just when the flashes (as judged from the embankment) of lightning occur, this point M1 naturally coincides with the point M but it moves … with the velocity … of the train. Relativity Denialists: Like the Heads of the Hydra… « Skulls in the Stars
Where capital was readily available, as on most European main lines, civil engineering could defy topography, and span great valleys on embankments and viaducts, and drive tunnels through mountain ridges.
hiker" is repeatedly delighted to find his trail passing quite easily from one peak or ascent to another over a natural connecting embankment. The Bontoc Igorot
About 60,000 residents in the province have been transferred to safe areas during the past few days after sections of the swelling Lihe River overflowed and parts of the embankment burst.
The embankment was washed out by the storm.
The train left the track and plunged down the embankment.
Small embanked fields were laid out for cereal growing, and were separated from areas devoted to livestock pasturage.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth embankments.
They climbed a steep embankment.
The erosion in Ketahun district in North Bengkulu regency had already damaged parts of the highway, and road embankments built on five-meter-high cliffs had collapsed due to the continuous pounding of waves early this year.
The Environment Agency has already agreed to provide £220,000 from a levy on local authorities to fund the first two phases of the scheme - an embankment and a sluice gate.
Civil work for excavation, rock blasting, shotcrete , embankment and reclamation, construct jetty, roadwork and painting work.
At the southern end, within earshot of juggernauts thundering along the Embankment, there is a wild area with flowering shrubs and rare peonies.
Let's go hunting," he hollered as the door chimed open and we glissaded down the gravel embankment. How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway
One of the inspectors was walking along the embankment outside, his coat collar turned up against the wind. Somewhere East of Life
The embankment dam project lies in the Pingwu of Sichuan province, it is the first reservoir electric power station on Huoxihe the left beach of Fujiang.
I am headed towards an embankment of thunderheads.
We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap.
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
A small amount of the copious supplies of surface water which run off is trapped by a long low earth embankment to form large shallow dams locally known as "conservancies". Water profile of Guyana

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