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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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    Flood control (or flood mitigation or flood protection or flood alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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