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From 3,500 to 21: What the Dutch Learned About Who Holds the Line

By Scott L. Shapiro on September 30, 2026
Posted in Flood Control, Floodplain Management, Levees, Water Infrastructure & Projects
From 3500 to 21

In my last post, I wrote from the Noordwaard, a former farming polder (or protected basin) on the edge of De Biesbosch National Park, where the Dutch lowered a dike on purpose so the river can spill into the polder at high water. That was the Dutch trying something…

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