It may be cheaper to buy farmland and use it as a natural flood plain than to rebuild levees in marginal areas.

Other money will go to help private businesses and to rebuild levees, bridges and roads.

The cuts could hurt the corps' ability to rebuild levees protecting the city.

In 1867 the state's military government began leasing convicts to rebuild wrecked railroad and levees within the state.

It took years for the state to rebuild levees damaged in battles.

Historically, the Federal response to flood recovery has been to rebuild levees and dams.

He defended the domestic spending provisions in the bill, particularly drought assistance to farmers and resources to rebuild levees in Louisiana devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

It also means finding money to rebuild levees.

We're talking about rebuilding levees that were not built properly in the first place.

We are removing debris and repairing highways and rebuilding stronger levees.