Regulations applicable to the various river dykes

Abstract

In the dictionary, dyke means a long construction built to contain water. The difficulty of this article lies in the fact that the definiton includes different kinds of construction with different aims and regulations. But, they are all embankments under the naturel ground with potential stakes of security. Because of this diversity, one presentation can't describe all the applicable regulations. For some construction, the regulation of security control is handled in special articles of this seminar. So, this article is bounded to a rapid presentation of different kinds of dyke and their regulation in introduction, to develop specially the regulation of flood protection dykes for which an extra control has been recently settled.