Fighting Against the Current: Restoring dike breaches and closing tidal channels by simple means - from past to present

The dissertation focussed on the kind of closure methods used, in the past and at present, to repair breached dikes and to close tidal channels by simple means. By simple means one must think about the application by (mainly) manual labour of local materials and small-scale tools and equipment. The closure of tidal channels is also required in...

Design and contract documents for closing of the Madargong in Polder 5 in Khulna District

The Madargong is located in Syamnagar Police Station of Satkhira Division, Khulna District. The closure of the Madargong was approved in 1975 to be executed as part of the Early Implementation Projects, under the Technical Assistance Programme of the Netherlands Government. The work was to be carried out by the Syamnagar SubDivision of the...