The Dutch Delta Plan
1971
Brochure
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Title Page and Publication Information
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Map of The Netherlands
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Introduction; Land Reclamation
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Map of Land reclamation down the ages
..........Photograph of the Zuyder Zee Barrier Dam
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Zuyder Zee; Delta Project
..........Map showing Zuyder Zee Project
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Map showing areas flooded in 1953
..........Map of the Delta region
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Graph of Delta Project time-table
..........General; The Works
...Maps
showing:
..........(1) How fresh water reaches the sea
..........(2) Future distribution of fresh water
..........Figure showing movable weir in the Lower Rhine near
Hagestein
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The Works (cont.);
..........Water Management
...Maps
showing:
..........The two fresh water basins
..........The 300-milligrammes of chloride per litre limits,
............under various circumstances
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Water Management (cont.)
..........Anti-salination measures
... Diagrams
showing:
..........(a) Siting of storm barrier in the Hollandse Ijssel
..........(1) Elevation of storm barrier
..........(2) Cross-section of typical polder country
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Photograph of the storm barrier
..........in the Hollandse Ijssel
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Diagrams showing:
..........(a) Siting of dam across the Haringvliet
..........(1) Plan of sluices (locks)
..........(2) Cross section of sluices
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An artist's impression of the finished sluices
..........Anti-salination measures (cont.)
...Diagrams
illustrating:
..........(1) How an artificial island is made
..........(2) Building the piers and spans on the sluice bed
..........(3) Fitting the steel gates
..........(4) When the sluices are completed the encircling dyke will
be
...............dredged away and dams buit on either side
...Diagrams
(cont.)
..........(5) View of building site
..........(6) The sluices under construction
..........(7) Fitting the steel gates
..........(8) The completed sluices (storm surge barriers)
...Aerial View
of
..........work in the Haringvliet
...Haringvliet
work completed;
..........vital shipping routes
..........construction of secondary dams preceds that of primary
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Sketch of dam across the Volkerak
..........Aerial view of work in the Volkerak
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Diagram showing the new roads
..........Communications; Safety
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Sketch of locks in the Volkerak
..........Aerial view of locks
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Plan of locks
..........Safety (cont.); New working methods
...Figures
displaying:
..........(1) Roller trolley used for laying nylon cloth
..........(2) Mechanical stone distributor
...Diagram of
..........asp[halt-laying device
..........New working methods (cont.)
...Diagram showing
..........principle of sluice caissons
..........Photograph of the completed dam in the Veerse Gat
...Photograph
showing:
..........Floating the last caisson into position in the Veerse Gat
..........Caissons; Overhead Cableway
...Sketch of:
..........Barrier across the Grevelingen; Photographs of:
..........(1) View of telpher
..........(2) The completed dam across the Grevelingen
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Overhead Cableway (cont.)
... Sketch of:
..........Barrier across the Brouwershavense Gat
..........Photograph showing aerial view of work in the Brouwershavense
Gat
...Sketch of:
..........Barrier across the Eastern Scheldt
..........(In fact, this came to be the storm surge barrier which
..............can be left open to allow influx of seawater most of the
time)
..........Progress Report
first version: April 13, 1997; reorganized: January 3, 1999 (commemorating BLO_Sr=90); latest version: June 15, 2000
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