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    Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while...
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  • sea-floods that have occurred in the Netherlands. In addition to these there have been hundreds of river floods during the centuries. Flood control in the...
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    Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding...
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    2016. Delta Works Dijkgraaf (official) Flood control in the Netherlands Lauwersmeer Water board (Netherlands) Windmills at Kinderdijk How it Works: Science...
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    The 1953 North Sea flood (Dutch: Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England...
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  • In the Netherlands, Room for the River (Dutch: Ruimte voor de Rivier) is a government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping...
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    Floods in Australia The Netherlands: Floods in the Netherlands, Flood control in the Netherlands United States: Lists of floods in the United States North...
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    Waterwolf (category Lakes of the Netherlands)
    for the creation of polders, or areas inhabited below sea level with an artificially managed water table. Modern flood control in the Netherlands consists...
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  • Delta Works (category Flood control in the Netherlands)
    listed in chronological order with their year of completion: Flood control in the Netherlands Lauwerszee Works Megaproject Thames Barrier Zuiderzee Works...
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    edge Flood control – Methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters Flood control in the Netherlands – Manmade control of flooding...
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    Zuiderzee Works (category Flood control in the Netherlands)
    for another major waterworks project in the Netherlands. Lauwerszee Works Flood control in the Netherlands Flood Zuiderzeemuseum http://www.ce.memphis...
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    Polder (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    New Orleans Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta Afsluitdijk Flood control in the Netherlands Land reclamation Windpump Sijs, N. van der, 2010. Nederlandse...
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    river flooding. Flood control in the Netherlands is a national policy priority, since about two-thirds of the country is vulnerable to flooding and the whole...
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    Breezanddijk (category Populated places in Friesland)
    small harbours, one on the North Sea side of the dike, and the other on the IJsselmeer side. Flood control in the Netherlands Flood Zuiderzee Zuiderzee Works...
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    Oosterscheldekering (category Flood barriers)
    the largest of the Delta Works, a series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherlands from flooding from the North Sea. The construction...
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    The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the...
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    that penetrates the inland which is controlled by the topography of the coastal land exposed to flooding. The seawater can flood the land via several...
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    Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces...
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    Anne-Wil Lucas (category Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands))
    education, science and the flood control in the Netherlands. Lucas studied urban planning at Wageningen University. Parlement.com biography (in Dutch) "Twee nieuwe...
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    Deltapark Neeltje Jans, and one at the Computer Museum of the University of Amsterdam. Delta Works Flood control in the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat "Deltar computer"...
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    instead of going through the city. This first flood control channel was designed by Hendrik van Breen, an engineer working for the Dutch East Indian Department...
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    dipole anomaly Arctic oscillation Cyclogenesis Flood control in the Netherlands Gulf Stream Muddy flood Winter storm Xynthia (storm) "Data" (PDF). www...
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    Reconstruction of New Orleans (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2019)
    the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. The project views water as an asset and draws upon the Dutch model for flood control in the Netherlands...
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    construction of the Volkerakdam, at the de Voorst facility. Flood control in the Netherlands Zuiderzee Works Rijkswaterstaat Delta Works "About us | Deltares"...
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  • Compartmentalisation dam (category Dams in South Holland)
    until the completion of the Oosterscheldekering. Delta Works Flood control in the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat Johan van Veen Commission on Oosterschelde...
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    Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated. Operating a brothel is also legal. De Wallen, the largest and best-known Red-light district in Amsterdam...
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    formerly used as) the headquarters of one of the Waterboards of the Netherlands. Early flood control in the Netherlands is often called the Teerschouw, which...
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    Oesterdam (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Delta Works Flood control in the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat Ferguson, H.A. (1986). Delta-visie: Een terugblik op 40 jaar natte waterbouw in Zuidwest-Nederland...
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    researchers are exerting too much influence on the design process". Flood control in the Netherlands Delta Works Rijkswaterstaat Oosterscheldekering Steketee, Hans...
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  • This list of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands is an adapted translation of this list from Dutch, plus some additions from other sources....
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