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Date of upload: Jan 30, 2024 ^^
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I clicked on this video with this thought: "wait wth is happening in my country right now, so amazing that @Thoughty2 would make a video about it?"
It turned out to be another video about our watermanagement. Not gonna lie, as a Dutchie I have watched maybe 30 of these kinds of videos, and I still enjoyed it lol. I watched every minute of it.
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I visited Amsterdam in 1997. Went from Albany International Airport in Albany, New York to Newark Airport in New Jersey. From there flew to London Gatwick Airport. I was on the plane with a rugby team from New Zealand I believe. From there we went to Schipol Airport. Stayed in Amsterdam for 9 days. Never visited any other country or any other part of Holland. Lol...me and my friend were there specifically for the 10th annual High Times Cannabis Cup...it was an amazing vacation even though it was on the cold side because it was November. That's the farthest I've ever traveled as of 2024. It was definitely a memorable trip!! I am not Dutch but being from Albany, New York I am very familiar with the Dutch history of the area I live in. I grew up in a suburb of Albany known as Guilderland...lol...the mascot of the Guilderland High School is none other than the Flying Dutchman ship! Every year Albany celebrates its Dutch roots with the Tulip Festival always the same weekend as Mother's Day. They have a parade on that Friday and crown a Tulip queen. Washington Park is where the festival commences and throughout the park is a vast collection of tulips, of course! Its pretty cool, even though I haven't attended the festival in over 10 years. Crowds bother me too much now, but as a teenager and young adult, me and my friends always looked forward to checking out the festival and all its fun...lol...
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We can also divert water all the way from the IJsselmeer to the higher (above sealevel) agricultural areas. We just let the pumps turn the other way, so instead of pumping water out, we pump water in. We can't use seawater, but IJsselmeer water has lost enough salinity to work in dry summers. It's not only the polders created on former seabed that's nutritious, also the lands alongside rivers that used to (and in some cases still do) flood at high river water levels is fertile.
In other areas there used to be swamps, which were drained, then peat was mined until it was all gone and again there would be (ancient) seabed or riverbed clay available for farming. However in South Holland especially they never dug the peat out - they're grazing cows and sheep on thin layers of soil growing grass, on top of peat layers. Buildings are piled and when the water is drained or the summer is dry, the peat starts to contract, causing the pilings to shift or even rot (they are preserved because they're below the general water table).
Some of the dikes are so called peat-dikes, especially around long canals dug through the landscape to connect different cities and ports in the 1800's and earlier. When the waterlevel in these canal is raised by excessive rain, it permeates the peat in the upper layers of the dikes. This can hold for a number of days. If the water level in the canals stays too high for too long, the dike will become waterlogged and start seeping water. That will eventually wash out enough material for the dike to breach.
Both too dry and too wet situations are happening more and more as in the inlands of Europe, the sources of our river system, there's more and more rain falling and less and less snow. Snow melt in spring would mean a gradual influx of water. Now every time north-western mainland Europe gets torrential rain, we need to get pumping like crazy in order to keep our feet dry. If you look at the map of Switserland, Germany and Belgium you'll notice that most of the rivers drain to the North Sea through The Netherlands.
P.s. Maaslandkering was used for the first time outside testing last December. We had lots of areas with already high water in the inland areas due to rain, and the prevailing wind off the North Sea plus high tide would mean too high water tables. So the floating bits came out autonomously until the high water risk had passed, and then retracted. I think it was the first time ever that all the storm surge protection barriers, along the entire Dutch coast, were used within the same 24 hr period.
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6:43 is a painting of the beautiful city of Deventer and the river IJssel. You can see the big St Lebuïn cathedral with the big tower right in the middle and to the left of it is the St Nicholas church with the two towers. These days the river still overflows, even though they had a project called 'room for the river' (ruimte voor de rivier). And part of it was digging these huge reservoirs next to the river in different places that when high waters came, the water wouldn't flow directly into parts of the city.
Quite interesting. Also, we Dutch must continue to improve our defenses against the water and think of new possibillities so these project are an ongoing thing.
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Don't forget the terps (terpen), man made hills used to keep our churches, farm houses, store houses and communities dry during floods. The city i live in is built on 3 big terps over 800 years old, they were expanded over time and eventually interconnected. There is one street with 17th century buildings that were made too tall for the terp to support causing the buildings to start sinking, combined with a street level that kept rising due to a build up of trash, the first floor of these building have been almost completely underground for the last century and they just moved the entrance up a floor.
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Apologies for the pronunciations in this one - I tried my best but it turns out Dutch is bloody difficult!
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