When the levee breaks...
No, it's not really going to break (I don't think). I just wanted to use a Led Zeppelin song as a title. It's nice how along this and many other stretches of the rivers, there is a nice walking path on top of the dike.
Fun fact: Although dike and levee are often used interchangeably they really are two distinctly different things. Dikes are made to stop rivers or seas from flooding low lying land which is already permanently a swampy wetland. Levees on the other hand hold back high water rivers from flooding land which is normally dry.
So this is actually a levee even though it is pretty much universally referred to as a dike here.
When the levee breaks...
No, it's not really going to break (I don't think). I just wanted to use a Led Zeppelin song as a title. It's nice how along this and many other stretches of the rivers, there is a nice walking path on top of the dike.
Fun fact: Although dike and levee are often used interchangeably they really are two distinctly different things. Dikes are made to stop rivers or seas from flooding low lying land which is already permanently a swampy wetland. Levees on the other hand hold back high water rivers from flooding land which is normally dry.
So this is actually a levee even though it is pretty much universally referred to as a dike here.