After the North Sea flood of 1953 killed more than 1,800 people in the Netherlands, the government financed a system of dikes, dams, pumps, dunes and storm surge barriers so complex that engineers ...

For nearly 90 years, a 32-km dike on the Dutch coast has kept the North Sea from inundating a huge area of the Netherlands, around Amsterdam. Now, to counter the ravages of time and rising sea ...

The Netherlands has so far been spared much of the death and destruction that this week’s flooding has caused in Germany and Belgium. But in Valkenburg, a city in the south of the Netherlands ...

With climate change bringing more powerful storms and rising sea levels , the dike is getting a major makeover. The Dutch government has embarked on a future-proofing project to beef up the iconic ...

The Netherlands' dikes . 5 of 13. ... Dams had protected farmland from the sea since at least the Roman times, but large-scale building of dikes occurred around 1,000 AD, ...

08/11/2022 August 11, 2022. Often made of peat, dike walls are more likely to dry out and become unstable due to lack of rain. After weeks of drought and intense summer heat, the Netherlands has ...

The Netherlands: Leaky Dikes. 3 minute read. TIME. October 7, 1966 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... defense and the age-old battle against the sea that the Dutch refer to as “water control.” ...

A hidden sea-dike (6), situated directly underneath the raised beach (5), will be the main structure protecting the city. In between these two structures, a quiet lagoon (8) is created.

This second dike can be lower and less expensive than the current sea defence, because the water has already lost much of its force behind the first dike. The polder between these double dikes will ...

The disaster came in 1953. A powerful storm breached sea dikes in the south of the Netherlands, killing more than 1,800 people and cementing a deep resolve among the Dutch that their ancient enemy ...