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65 relations: Afsluitdijk, American Society of Civil Engineers, Bath, Netherlands, Brielle, Brouwersdam, Cees Veerman, Dam, Dune, Eastern Scheldt, Estuary, Europoortkering, Flood barrier, Flood control in the Netherlands, Floodgate, Goeree-Overflakkee, Grevelingen, Guilder, Haringvliet, Haringvlietdam, Harlingen, Netherlands, Hartelkering, Hollands Diep, Hollandse IJssel, Hook of Holland, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Land reclamation, Lauwersmeer, Levee, Lock (water navigation), Maassluis, Maeslantkering, Marshall Plan, Megaproject, Meuse, Netherlands, Nieuwe Waterweg, Noord-Beveland, North Sea flood of 1953, Oosterscheldekering, Philipsdam, Port of Antwerp, Provinces of the Netherlands, Rhine, Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, Room for the River (Netherlands), Rotterdam, Scheldt, Scheldt–Rhine Canal, Schouwen-Duiveland, Sint Philipsland (island), ..., Sluice, South Holland, Spijkenisse, Thames Barrier, Tholen, Veerse Gat, Vlaardingen, Volkerak, Voorne-Putten, Western Scheldt, Wonders of the World, World War II, Zeeland, Zuid-Beveland, Zuiderzee Works. Expand index (15 more) »
Afsluitdijk
The Afsluitdijk (Ofslútdyk; Dam) is a major causeway in the Netherlands, constructed between 1927 and 1932 and running from Den Oever on Wieringen in North Holland province, to the village of Zurich in Friesland province, over a length of and a width of, at an initial height of above sea level.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.
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Bath, Netherlands
Bath is a small village and a former municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland, lying on the north shore of the Western Scheldt.
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Brielle
Brielle, also called Den Briel (Brill in English) is a town, municipality and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New Maas.
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Brouwersdam
The Brouwersdam is the seventh structure of the Delta Works.
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Cees Veerman
Cornelis Pieter (Cees) Veerman (born 8 March 1949) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal.
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.
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Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
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Eastern Scheldt
The Eastern Scheldt (Oosterschelde) is a former estuary in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Europoortkering
The Europoortkering or barrier of the Europoort is a program of engineering works in addition to the Delta Plan, designed to protect the maritime access routes from the port of Rotterdam and thus, the entire South Holland against storms and tides.
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Flood barrier
A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier.
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Flood control in the Netherlands
'''Flood control''' is an important issue for the Netherlands, as about two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while the country is among the most densely populated on Earth.
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Floodgate
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems.
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Goeree-Overflakkee
Goeree-Overflakkee is the southernmost delta island of the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
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Grevelingen
Grevelingen or Grevelingenmeer (Lake Grevelingen) is a closed off part of the Rhine-Meuse estuary on the border of the Dutch provinces of South Holland and Zeeland.
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Guilder
Guilder is the English translation of the Dutch and German gulden, originally shortened from Middle High German guldin pfenninc "gold penny".
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Haringvliet
The Haringvliet is a large inlet of the North Sea, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands.
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Haringvlietdam
The Haringvliet sluices are a construction that closed off the estuary of the Haringvliet, Netherlands, as part of the Delta Works.
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Harlingen, Netherlands
Harlingen (West Frisian: Harns) is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland on the coast of Wadden Sea.
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Hartelkering
The Hartelkering (English: Hartel barrier) is a storm surge barrier in Spijkenisse, Netherlands.
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Hollands Diep
Hollands Diep (pre-1947 spelling: Hollandsch Diep) is a wide river in the Netherlands and an estuary of the Rhine and Meuse river.
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Hollandse IJssel
The Hollandse (or Hollandsche) IJssel ("Holland IJssel", as opposed to the 'regular' or Gelderland IJssel) is a branch of the Rhine delta that flows westward from Nieuwegein on river Lek through IJsselstein, Gouda and Capelle aan den IJssel to Krimpen aan den IJssel, where it ends in the Nieuwe Maas.
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Hook of Holland
The Hook of Holland (Hoek van Holland) is a town in the southwestern corner of Holland (hence the name; hoek means "corner"), at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal into the North Sea.
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Krimpen aan den IJssel
Krimpen aan den IJssel is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
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Land reclamation
Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a landfill), is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or lake beds.
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Lauwersmeer
Lauwersmeer is a man-made lake in the north of the Netherlands, on the border of the provinces of Groningen and Friesland.
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Levee
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Maassluis
Maassluis is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
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Maeslantkering
The Maeslantkering is a storm surge barrier on the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands controlled by a supercomputer.
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $ billion in US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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Megaproject
A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project.
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Meuse
The Meuse (la Meuse; Walloon: Moûze) or Maas (Maas; Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nieuwe Waterweg
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where the Nieuwe Waterweg connects to the Maasgeul.
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Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland() (North Beveland) is a municipality and region in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula.
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North Sea flood of 1953
The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953.
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Oosterscheldekering
The Oosterscheldekering (English: Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta Works series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherlands from flooding from the North Sea.
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Philipsdam
Philipsdam is a dam that belongs to the Delta Works in the Netherlands.
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Port of Antwerp
The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships.
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Provinces of the Netherlands
There are currently twelve provinces of the Netherlands, representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
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Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta or Helinium is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers.
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Room for the River (Netherlands)
In the Netherlands, Room for the River; Ruimte voor de Rivier, is a government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping and the improvement of environmental conditions in the areas surrounding the Netherlands' rivers.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.
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Scheldt
The Scheldt (l'Escaut, Escô, Schelde) is a long river in northern France, western Belgium and the southwestern part of the Netherlands.
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Scheldt–Rhine Canal
The Scheldt–Rhine Canal (Schelde-Rijnkanaal) in Belgium and the Netherlands connects Antwerp with the Volkerak, and thereby the Scheldt with the Rhine.
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Schouwen-Duiveland
Schouwen-Duiveland is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands province of Zeeland.
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Sint Philipsland (island)
Sint Philipsland is a former island in the Dutch province of Zeeland.
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Sluice
A sluice (from the Dutch "sluis") is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate.
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South Holland
South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of just over 3.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.
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Spijkenisse
Spijkenisse is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
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Thames Barrier
The Thames Barrier prevents the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.
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Tholen
Tholen is a 25,000 people municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands.
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Veerse Gat
The Veerse Gat or Veeregat was the sea channel between Walcheren and Noord-Beveland islands in Zeeland in the Netherlands.
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Vlaardingen
Vlaardingen is a city in South Holland in the Netherlands.
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Volkerak
The Volkerak is a body of water in the Netherlands.
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Voorne-Putten
Voorne-Putten is an island between the North Sea, the Brielse meer and the rivers Oude Maas, Spui and Haringvliet in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands.
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Western Scheldt
The Western Scheldt (Westerschelde) in the province of Zeeland in the southwestern Netherlands, is the estuary of the Scheldt river.
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Wonders of the World
Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world's most spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeelandic: Zeêland, historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.
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Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland (South Beveland) is part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde.
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Zuiderzee Works
The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) is a man-made system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage work, in total the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
