The Beninese state has decided to prohibit the pumping of sea and sand for the construction of protective dikes.

When the attractive, protective dike was completed in 1980, she made her second Clinton debut and was rechristened "City of Clinton"

It was about one hundred feet wide, and had risen over the protective dikes, making it at least twelve feet deep.

"Visitors with gold buy themselves housing", Cotswald went on, pointing to the other side of the island, where the houseboats were nosed into the protective dike around the city.

The sounds reverberating off the stone face of the protective dike came from another, far more ruthless, enemy.

For the preservation of the site, funding was offered by American Express to construct a protective dike.

The 1989 act directed the Corps of Engineers to build a protective dike around the area, which covers 8.5 square miles.

They add that in some cases, villagers were imperiled by possible sudden breaches of their own protective dikes.

A system of protective dikes and drainage canals has been built, because the Bodrog tributaries had often caused floods.