Uno dei più grandi megaprogetti europei, l’Afsluitdijk è lungo 32 km e protegge i Paesi Bassi dalle inondazioni dal mare.
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Uno dei più grandi megaprogetti europei, l’Afsluitdijk è lungo 32 km e protegge i Paesi Bassi dalle inondazioni dal mare.
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then thanks to afslituidjkisi
Why use concrete? Don’t you have rocks in the Netherlands?
The Afsluitdijk not only protects from floods but also created new freshwater ecosystems by separating the IJsselmeer from the Wadden Sea.
Also makes the yankees trip if they try to invade.
Looks like nice place to get high fr
they couldn’t come up with a reasonable name so they just smashed the keyboard instead?
My megaproject for the week will be to try to say this word
Why in Europe is everything called a “Mega” like “megaproject” it’s a very European thing to say
Prevents flooding is not a great summary. Yes, that was the main goal but it is an oversimplification.
The South Sea or Zuiderzee was a massive inland sea/estuary/bay. It was large, shallow and populated around with fishing and trading infrastructure. Due to wind and tides, water was prone to rushing up over the waterworks protecting the bordering land. To prevent another disaster, motivated by a shortage of food and agricultural land in WW1 and recent flooding, it was decided to block the whole area of from the sea.
A decent comparisson would be deciding to build a wall instead of a bridge at the mouth of the Chesapeake bay. A massive impact on every ecosystem and city bordering the area.
Perhaps interesting to add that it is not a recent project.
The afsluitdijk was originally completed in 1933.
And of course there is a fucking bike path next to it. The Dutch sure love flexing their cycling infrastructure in our faces.
I realised once that the Afsluitdijk and the Gotthard tunnel are each others negatives. You could drop what came out of the Gotthard in the water and get the Afsluitdijk!
Why the road is where the flooding is supposed to happen?
The Afsluitdijk is the second biggest brick wall in the world, after Virgilvandijk 😎