The History of Safety Factors for Dutch Regional Dykes

Regular dyke assessment is part of reducing the risk of flooding in the Netherlands. 18 000 km of dykes are assessed at regular intervals, of which 14 000 km are classified as regional dykes and their main aim is to defend polders from inundating. The methods of assessing regional dykes are strongly inter-twined with the methods of assessing...

Economic optimization of flood prevention systems in the Netherlands

After the flood disaster of 1953, the Netherlands adopted a rational approach to flood risk management with the use of protection standards determined by means of cost-benefit analysis. Due to scientific and political developments that have recently taken place, an update of the Dutch protection standards is being undertaken. One of the major...

Water Law and Organization (Dutch version)

Lecture notes in DUTCH for course CIE5500, providing a detailed overview of Dutch and European water law concerning surface and groundwater, the North Sea and the Wadden Sea, water services, flood protection, spatial planning, nature protection, water management organizations (e.g. the water boards), financing and legal protection....

Investigation of excess water-pressure under the asphalt facing of sand-cored dykes: Paper for 9the Conference of the International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, Belgrade, 1961

The excess pressures anticipated underneath the asphalt facing of a number of sea dykes were determined with the aid of plate-shaped electrical conductors and alternating current. As these excess pressures are influenced by factors varying from place to place in the prototype, a series of tests were carried out in which one or more of these...