In 2002 the Vicksburg Riverfront murals program was begun by Louisiana mural artist Robert Dafford and his team on the floodwall located on the waterfront in downtown.

It shows a dark black wave cresting and overflowing a floodwall and tossing cars, followed by a fishing ship capsizing as it hit the submerged floodwall and then crushed as it was forced beneath a bridge.

Much of Huntington was also heavily damaged, and as a result, a floodwall was constructed around much of the town to prevent future occurrences.

The 1965 flood was one of the worst, and it provided the impetus to build the floodwall.

This floodwall was finally built in the late 1960s.

When the entire midwest was prone to widespread floods in 1993 the floodwall helped keep the city from experiencing serious flooding, while other cities-such as Davenport, Iowa-sustained major damage.

The Upper Ninth was flooded by levee and floodwall failures near the Desire neighborhood, across the Industrial Canal from the junction with the MRGO.

A concrete floodwall built in Classical style to protect the memorial and Vincennes from Wabash flooding was also designed to complement the memorial.

From 1890 through 2006, the Orleans Levee Board was the body in charge of supervising the levee and floodwall system in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, which is intended to protect the city of New Orleans from flooding.

On Tuesday, August 30, 2005 the Orleans Levee Board was at the center of the greatest crisis ever to face the city of New Orleans when in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina multiple levee and floodwall breaches in the Industrial Canal, 17th Street Canal, and London Avenue Canal resulted in the flooding of some 80 % of the city.

A report noted that there was at least one place where the water came within inches of topping the floodwall.

The London Avenue Canal Levee and floodwall was breached during or shortly after Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005.

Its riverside location has made it subject to flooding, including a devastating incident on April 4, 1977, in which a floodwall built in 1952was overwhelmed and 200 houses were destroyed or damaged.

Most of the city's levees designed and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers broke somewhere, including the 17th Street Canal levee, the Industrial Canal levee, and the London Avenue Canal floodwall.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers upgraded the floodwall in 1988.

Many think Dayton's salvation came with the completion of a floodwall in late 1981.

The Flood Control Act of 1965 led to the creation of a floodwall to keep the Minnesota River at bay.

A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

The city is protected by a floodwall, completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1991 in response to a devastating flood along the Tug Fork River in 1977.

Aerial view of Williamson, West Virginia, during construction of its current floodwall, completed in 1991.

A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield – McCoy feud.

At very few points in its course, is the river confined by levees, except for a floodwall near Holbrook.

Features of the system include of levees, a floodwall in downtown, and a diversion channel with a dam at one end and a spillway at the other.

At the bank behind the floodwall, at an elevation of some 82 m, it abuts a sandy plain which is used especially for growing asparagus and which is also covered in fruit trees.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.

A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.

The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

No house was ever built that could not have been built better for less if the work had been better planned and the work better scheduled.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.