One of Europe’s biggest megaprojects, the Afsluitdijk is 32km long and protects the Netherlands against floodings from the sea.
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One of Europe’s biggest megaprojects, the Afsluitdijk is 32km long and protects the Netherlands against floodings from the sea.
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by UpgradedSiera6666
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then thanks to afslituidjkisi
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
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!
The Afsluitdijk is the second biggest brick wall in the world, after Virgilvandijk 😎
Why the road is where the flooding is supposed to happen?
You got it all wrong, it protects the sea from the Dutch
Technically it protects the ocean from the Dutch … we’d polder the fuck outta the Atlantic if we were allowed to.
Fun fact: the Afsluitdijk was the only place were we stoppen the German advance in 1940. The defensive structures were not built by the military but by the same governmental body that build the dijk itself.
The dike is nice and all, but they also named it the same way I name any temporary folders on my desktop.
Brave to put a road so low there then.
Nah we build this wall to protect us from all the water from mexico
Those look like cinder blocks from Home Depot
So sad that they forget the bridges, multi million project really… Bridges are breaking down so much, 100 years old no maintenance every 5 year a study of condition getting worse and on sunny days with Gardena hoses cool it to close it….
You would expect by paying so much tax they could arrange that but further then make dike higher they not come….
The asdfdfdjkjk looks nice
The Dutch are Chads at large scale engineering projects
Now use that 1.5% of our NATO budget for ‘strategic emergency resources’ by building in hydro-electricity generators.
This is how I name temporary folders and game saves.
This is what happens when you tolerate weed (it is not legalised in NL, source NL Gov).
One of the greatest engineering feats while also being one of the greatest ecological disasters in western europe
>Afsluitdijk
Random keyboard nonsense.
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