Man-made lowlands, a future for ancient dykes in the Netherlands

Dikes are part and parcel of the Netherlands. Down through the centuries they have played a role in every attempt to make this country inhabitable – in the reclamation of peatland and marshland, as coastal embankments and to enclose polders and flank rivers. This means they are often cultural heritage features of the highest order as they have...

Report on Field Measurements Petten sea defence: Storm Season 2003-2004

CLASH-EU: Report on field measurements: Petten sea defence: Storm season 2002-2003

Reliability of SWAN at the Petten sea defence: Project HR-ontwikkeling

Management and Maintenance of Dikes and Banks

As a low-lying and highly developed country, the Netherlands is continuously facing potential flooding disasters. That’s why we need strong safe water-retaining structures like sea and river-dikes. Moreover half of the country lies below mean high water level. Without dikes more than half of the country would be endangered by flooding. About 60%...

Hydraulic and coastal structures in international perspective

The objective of this paper is to bring some international perspectives on the policy, design, construction, and monitoring aspects of Hydraulic and Coastal Structures in general, and whenever possible, to present some comparison (or reasons for differences) between the experiences of various countries and/or geographical regions. This chapter...

RIVERSandLAND - Dikes for eternity - An ace up our sleeve

The question is often raised as to how long the next generations can continue to live and work in low-Iying Dutch Delta. The system of dikes, combined with the limited space for rivers, should guarantee our safety against inundation for the next hundred years, at least. But what do we do thereafter, wh en the sea level continues to rise,...

Numerical model investigations on coastal structures with shallow foreshores: Validation of numerical models based on physical model tests on the Petten Sea-defence

Guide on Sea and Lake dikes

This guide deals with the realisation and maintenance process for sea and lake dikes, dams, separation embankments and compartment dikes, in so far as they are primary flood defences. This guide is part of a coherent series of guides on flood defence (see table 1.1) and builds on the general TAW memorandum Gronslagen voor Waterkeren ...

Physical model investigations on coastal structures with shallow foreshores: 2D model tests on the Petten sea-defence

Sea defence and flood protection in the Netherlands

The 1400 km Dutch coastline is affected by sea level rise. At this moment a legal framework is made to guarantee the safety of dikes also in future. Also a national policy id developed for compensation of all coastal erosion. Both measures should make it possible for the Netherlands to survive an increased sea-level rise,

Sea Defences

The increased demand on reliable design methods for protective structures has resulted in the Netherlands in preparing a set of design guidelines for revetments of the sea-, and river-dikes, and for bank protection. These guidelines are intended for technicians and organizations directly involved in the design and management of protective...

Dredge, drain, reclaim: The art of a nation

Historical overview of hydraulic engineering in the Netherlands until 1960. The author wrote the main part of this book during the second world war. The author (1893-1959) advocated at that time strong improvement of the Dutch sea defences, but this was politically not accepted. For that he used the pseudonym "Dr. Cassandra". After 1953 he...