Posted on 09/09/2005 2:27:20 AM PDT by Budgie
History Studies conducted in 1937 by Rijkswaterstaat (Department of Public Works), showed that safety in many parts of the Netherlands could not be guaranteed at times of storms and high sea levels. In the densely populated areas near the river mouths of the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Schelde, it proved very difficult to build new dikes or strengthen the original ones. The first solution was to close all the river mouths: the Western Schelde, the Eastern Schelde, the Haringvliet, and the Brouwershavense Gat. This proposal was christened 'the Deltaplan'. In 1950, the first river mouths of the Brieles' Gat and the Botlek were closed. The Brielse Maas became a freshwater basin. This not only made the area safer, but it also provided Voorne with a freshwater supply. The plan was to build the remaining dams in the following decades. Unfortunately though, the infamous flood of 1953 prevented this from happening. Nearly two thousand people died and more than 150,000 hectares of land were flooded. People soon became aware that something had to be done, and very, very quickly.
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http://www.deltawerken.com/Deltaworks/23.html
Dutch do a fair job with their dikes, however their looie society (and I don't even mean sexual and vice permissiveness, I mean euthanasia of children, ecchh) makes New Orleans look like Rush Limbaugh.
You talk about the Western Schelde and the Eastern Schelde. How about the Panty Schelde?
Anyone confirm?
We should look at Dutch environmental regulations. Absent lawsuits by the green weenies, there would have been flood control gates at the entrance to the Lake, and we would not be having this conversation.
Wow! Could you imagine what would happen if we closed the mouth of the Mississippi? Sounds like fun!
Yeah, those Europeans are waaaay ahead of the US...
Now let's see how their methods work against a Cat 5 hurricane.
Or a Nazi invasion...
Maybe people just shouldn't live in cities under sea level surrounded by water. It makes them mentally unstable.
you in some dam race with china???
Didn't the North do that during the Civil War?
It must create an even bigger vacuum in their already empty heads.
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