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Walking along the top of a small dike in Burghsluis, the Netherlands, that protects the village on the left from the sea on the right. Most of the Netherlands is at or below sea-level, and would be flooded if not for the intricate system of dikes, dams and storm surge barriers. Burghsluis is a small village located next to the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier, which is the Netherlands main defense against flood waters from the North Sea. The Netherlands, situated on the North Sea at the delta of three major rivers, the Rhine, the Mass and the Scheldt, is a country wrested from the sea. After a series of major floods, the last occurring in 1953, the Dutch government implemented the Delta Project. This ambitious hydraulic engineering project which spanned 15 years, closed off the the main tidal estuaries and inlets in the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with the exception of those giving access to the Ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. To add some perspective, the storm surge that caused the 1953 flood, would not even reach the caution level on the current storm surge barrier. (Photo © Jock Fistick)

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051102_dike_0375.jpg
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PHOTO © 2005 - JOCK FISTICK
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Delta Project, Editorial/Documentary
Walking along the top of a small dike in Burghsluis, the Netherlands, that protects the village on the left from the sea on the right. Most of the Netherlands is at or below sea-level, and would be flooded if not for the intricate system of dikes, dams and storm surge barriers. Burghsluis is a small village located next to the Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier, which is the Netherlands main defense against flood waters from the North Sea. The Netherlands, situated on the North Sea at the delta of three major rivers, the Rhine, the Mass and the Scheldt, is a country wrested from the sea. After a series of major floods, the last occurring in 1953, the Dutch government implemented the Delta Project. This ambitious hydraulic engineering project which spanned 15 years, closed off the the main tidal estuaries and inlets in the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with the exception of those giving access to the Ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. To add some perspective, the storm surge that caused the 1953 flood, would not even reach the caution level on the current storm surge barrier. (Photo © Jock Fistick)
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