The gondolas that would ferry visitors to the boats are tied forlornly to iron brackets on the embankment wall.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Mr. DAVID DANIEL (President, University of Texas, Dallas): 17th Street canal consists of an earthen levee, which is just a long embankment of earth, that has a wall sticking up right in the middle of it.

NPR: Panel's Report Assigns No Blame in Levee Failures