Figure 11.38 shows how sandbags placed around a leak outside a river levee can effectively stop the

Question:

Figure 11.38 shows how sandbags placed around a leak outside a river levee can effectively stop the flow of water under the levee. Explain how the small amount of water inside the column formed by the sandbags is able to balance the much larger body of water behind the levee. Water rises to this level at most Sandbags Levee Flooding river