diking

Besides sandbags, the city has installed more than 11 miles of portable diking systems that quickly go into place.

Midwest flood fight: Fargo pushes back against Red 2011

So Jindal has to get permission from the Feds for the Coast Guard to start diking the approaches to shore, because the Feds have to release the money, etc.

The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010

So Jindal has to get permission from the Feds for the Coast Guard to start diking the approaches to shore, because the Feds have to release the money, etc.

The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010

Not to speak of the long, cold messenger trips, or the poetry, or the forest administration, or his competent supervision of the diking of the Thames.

A Complaint to His Purse 2010

The Corps of Engineers has been in here from the start, helping with the diking and the levee work.

CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2009 2009

But it includes not only building the protection and putting that in place, but also contingency planning for not only getting people to move things out of their basements and those kind of things, but evacuations in some areas and in contingency plans -- contingency diking and those kind of things, as well.

CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2009 2009

As settlers purchased and farmed the inexpensive "stump farms" and diking began in earnest, a strong agricultural movement began which thrives to this day.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008

The lobby argues that the historic channeling and diking of the Mississippi, as well as the loss of thousands of acres of Gulf Coast wetlands, may be as much to blame for the dead zone as farm runoff.

Down In The Dead Zone 2008

Throughout the South Slough watershed, historic diking activities have artificially produced a number of freshwater marshes and wetlands.

South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008

This is probably due to the extensive diking that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008