Which heightened instability results from excessive levee construction?

💡 Explanation

Avulsion risk rises because increased confinement elevates stream gradient and shear stress through the incised channel, favoring the *slope failure* when a levee breaches in high flows, rather than the river accessing stable floodplains.

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