Harvey Airfield
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Harvey Airfield, also known as Harvey Field, is a privately owned, public-use airport in Snohomish, Washington, United States, northeast of Seattle. The airfield has one 2,671-foot asphalt runway, one
Runway at Harvey Airfield in 2020
Biplane at Harvey Airfield taxiing for takeoff
Levee
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A levee, is an elevated ridge alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river. Alternatively, it is called a dike, dyke, floodbank, or stop b
Harvey Airfield
…system. The airport is located in the floodplain of the Snohomish River, which has periodically flooded the runway, including a major flood in 1990; a levee was built in 1995. In 2005, the Snohomish County government petitioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reclassify the area around…
The side of a levee in Sacramento, California
A reinforced embankment
Broken levee on the Sacramento River
A levee keeps high water on the Mississippi River from flooding Gretna, Louisiana, in March 2005.