Examples of using Dikes in English and their translations into Russian
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Water leakage into dikes, their foundations and ground waters;
The Manhattan Waterfront is more breathtaking than Dutch dikes.
The bus will drive on the dikes that protects the land from the water.
The large amounts of removed soil were in turn used to reinforce other dams and dikes.
During the second phase two dikes were built parallel to each other, which took 2 years.
A COLETANCHE bituminous geomembrane was attached to the dikes using anchoring trenches.
Facilities, such as dikes and dams, cooling towers and chimneys require regular inspection and condition control.
Under sea level, many tulipfields, the dikes, the windmills and local life.
Until the late 1970s, nearly all the loans were for infrastructure,such as the construction of roads, dikes and ports.
During the Ming dynasty,the bursting of several dikes at Hexiwu touched off a crisis in 1424.
Caland proposed to extend the dikes 2 km into the sea to disrupt the coastal sea currents and decrease silt deposits in the shipping lane.
The aim of the system was to shorten the coastline,thus reducing the number of dikes that had to be raised.
These include building of drains, dikes, dredging, reinforcement of the banks meant as well to protect against floods.
The floods damaged the lands along the Yak-Su and Kyzyl-Su rivers,where dikes extending for 100 kilometres were destroyed.
The two biggest water reservoirs in Ceara are dikes along the Jaguaribe: the Orós dam and the Castanhão dam, with storage capacities of 2.1 and 6.7 billion cubic meters of water.
Unlike other reservoirs, water is contained not by a single large dam, butby a series of 88 dikes that total 64 km(40 mi) in length.
After the disaster, the dikes were restored and the floodwater was pumped out again and on 15 July 1652, the inhabitants of the Watergraafsmeer paraded through their polder to celebrate that it was dry once again.
Due to climate change andrelative sea-level rise, the dikes will eventually have to be made higher and wider.
Adequate investment in water-related infrastructure is also crucial to flood and drought prevention, including dams,reservoirs, dikes and canals.
An enormous mass of mud and vegetation slid into numerous rivers,forming gigantic dikes, which later succumbed to the force of the pent-up waters.
Forty kilometres of road and railway bridges were demined, as were 200 kilometres necessary for a major road construction project, 350 kilometres of state and local roads, 200 kilometres of railway lines, 21 railway stations, andmore than 300 kilometres of channels and dikes.
Waard" is the Dutch word for an interfluvial area between the winter dikes of different river channels in this case, the Lek and the Hollandse IJssel.
Anyone who, by damaging floodgates, dikes or other installations intended for the common defence against water flows or for recovery from a public disaster, creates the danger of flooding or of any other disaster shall be sentenced to 6 to 30 months' imprisonment.
Egypt also proposed developing flood protection in freshwater systems and building dikes to store water in the lakes to increase the fish production.
For navigation purposes, hydropower generation, flood protection, and to slow down groundwater level decline(due to the deepening of the river bed), the water levels of the main stream of the Rhine upstream from Iffezheim are regulated, and numerous water constructions, such as sluices,barrages and dikes.
Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be the remains of green-grown walls and dikes, and in the clefts there still stood the ruins of old works of stone.
Adaptation in the context of rising sea levels may involve relocating facilities(e.g. warehouses, storage areas and other services offered on the port side could be relocated further inland), rerouting traffic, redesigning structures or retrofitting with appropriate protection, including through elevation, defences, levees,seawalls and dikes.
For example, with Widegrade, we have developed a special core material, ideal for breakwaters and dikes, that we can ship and deliver in larger volumes than standard materials.
The United Nations force shall not make installations containing dangerous forces,namely dams, dikes and nuclear electrical generating stations, the object of military operations if such operations may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.
In addition, rectification and riverbank stabilization have shortened the course of the river and,along longer sections, the construction of dikes cuts the floodplains off from river dynamics.