Those islands are manmade and used to strengthen those storm surge barriers. Also a company called Center Parks created an holiday resort on one of them. On a different island you can find a waterpark, a aquarium. and a museum where people can learn more about these constructions. They also have some areas that are great for all sorts of animals to live. So all of that new space is being put in good use.
The maasland kering i was there when it happend , working for the dutch pilots at the time , the entire harbour was flooded 1 meter above the walkways and piers. It was quete the storm.
@03:30 As stated below they are man made. There were some shallow sandbanks that were used. Just build a dike around it and fill it up with sand does the trick. (a bit simplistic maybe...) @04:09 Here, another method was used. The protruding part (at 10 o'clock) was fully reclaimed on the sea by raising, using suction dredgers further out to sea. After that the harbor was dredged out. It is now a port for the largest container ships. @07:44 No dams are involved. The project is called "Room for the river". So there was a large volume added for high levels in the river to overflow in, thus preventing even higher levels to occur.
Many of the dots along the river are locations of emergency water storage areas to keep cities dry, if the river including the standard floodzones along the river aren't enough. It mostly is agricultural areas where houses have been removed or rebuilt on mounds so that the emergency flooding of the area doesn't affect these houses.
3:40 those places had sandbars already in place on which they build the islands. So it was essentially working with what was already there and exploiting it to their best abilities.
All levies are designed to close without any human interference. This is to avoid closing them to become a political decision as it hurts the economy. The only exception is when tests are conducted, but all computers must then be set in a certain mode (test mode) which is a complicated task. When the test is done, the computers are set on normal mode and nobody can interfere anymore. I think the computers give some forewarning time, so that the harbor authorities and ship's captains can anticipate the closure. The delta works by the way, cost more money than the Apollo project to put a man on the moon. Not bad for a country the size of New Jersey (or about). And that was only the coastal bit. Not considering the Room for the River bit. Also in technology (material science and fluid simulation, and the necessary new mathematics, for example) the delta works were more complicated than putting a man on the moon. Still, according to most environmental scientists, we will loose the fight in the next two centuries because of climate change and the resulting sea level rise of between 2 and 20 meters.
OH WOW, my city will be closer to the sea! And with 10 meters to spare elevation wise, I can continue to live there where basically more than 75% of the Netherlands will be under water. (And probably large parts ot Germany too if it is to be 20 meters)
20 maters is a bit drastic i think the ice on the poles literally dented the earth there so when its gone we will establish new holland on antartica and have an elfstedentocht every winter
@@michielvdvlies3315 can't have that, Antarctica, for now, is a no go area. It might be possible in the future but it won't be the Dutch who have a claim on it... pipedream for the Dutch to live there. Ah well, if it gets inundated most will drown if it were to happen in a short time. If not, probably the refugees will become a problem.
I disagree with Delta Works being more complex than the Apollo program. The 2 projects are not comparible to eachother in the slightest. They are both great and boundary pushing projects in thier own way. And we have a whole bunch of enviromental scientists to prove wrong in the coming centuries;)
@@roelwieggers4181 I was an environmental scientist. All scientist love to be wrong. It means new insights! But especially environmental scientists would really, really love to be wrong. Don't think that they like it to give such negative future projections. Not at all. As for the Apollo comparison, I disagree. Rockets were invented in WW2, Werner von Braun onlys switched countries and scaled up. Computers on board Apollo were not revolutionary, nor was the software. Even your pocket calculator can do more. For the delta works, whole new science fields (fluid dynamics and sea bed behavior) had to be explored. New building techniques invented and new building materials for making the pillars for the dams.
Even with all the work we do, nature does manage to catch us of guard . We recently had a pretty big flood, the surprise being it was in the highest part of the country. But even with a lot of damage there were no lives lost, and being a resident of that area, I can say we are already working on making it safe again. i just wonder what is going to happen in other parts of the world like the US where they do not have a system of watertax, for contruction and maintenance of flood defenses. ( hell i remember mentioning it on a US site and the room exploded when I said taxes. )
They automated it with a good reason: We do not want a human to decide when it should close. A human can not make a good decision: - Do I have family that could be flooded? - How much economic damage is there if I close it? Only a computer can make the right decision.
Except of course for the little fact there is always humans monitoring the activity and ready to intervene in case your perfect software made by humans proves to have a bug or a glitch. It is relying on both, one can not work without the other, both are of equal importance. We don't want to be relying on JUST a computer, we don't want to be relying on JUST humans.
@@mavadelo That was to obvious, a operator will always be there, of course. But my point is the same: The decision is always made by the software. The operator will only interfere if the software is failing.
@@PieterPatrick I know I might be nitpicking a bit but I really think it is important to acknowledge the importance of both. I do agree that using automated processes with sofisticated measuring equipment is the way to do it. The end resposibility always remains and should remain in human hads though. I have worked with to many software programs to trust that a program is without bugs. But these bugs can kill.
Nice vid. You should look into additional problems and solution regarding this. As said in the end of the vid you watched, parts of land can be elevated, but the real problems come when sea rises that much, those rivers lay way below sea level, so riverfloods will occur, sluices/locks can't solve
Those islands are man-made, part of the construction. The largest of them is called Neeltje Jans and was also used as a construction base for the pylons that were then floated into position by special, purpose-built ships. There is a museum on Neeltje Jans nowadays about the 1953 flood and the Delta Works that you might consider visiting when you visit The Netherlands (although with all the stuff you guys already have on your list you're probably going to have to apply for temporary residence permits to see it all 😉). Regarding the Maeslantkering, the best way to think of it is this: Storm surge and flood water: "I'm an irresistible force!!" Maeslantkering: "I'm an immovable object. Your call."
The Measland keering is indeed impressive. I live about a 15min. Drive from this gigantic work, standing next to the joints you will be amazed by the shear size of them. Makes me proud as a Dutchman and feel save
Regarding the sea level rise, it's been VERY constant in the time since we started measuring it accurately, which now is 100 to 120 years. No radical changes have occurred...
Earthquakes might occur due to the ice on the south pole and Greenland melting. E.g. the ice sheet on Greenland is roughly 2.500 x 1.000 km with an average thickness of 1,5 km. That's a lot of pressure that will be released after it is gone.
Greenland is located on a different Tectonic Plate than the Netherlands. Lifting of the other Plate may cause more than usual activity at the boundary. That could possibly effect Iceland, the Netherlands probably not at all.
I was born on a dike haha 👶🏼 🏡 🌊 1953 was horrible. My grandmother was a kid, she was visiting Zeeland (south area on the coast) for a few weeks and she never swim again. When I was a kid we even had mandatory swimminglessons at middleschool because our country excist 20% or something out of water. Safety first 🤓 I wonder if middleschools still do that. There are many dutch movies about that storm.
@@Woekkie Echt? Zo vroeg al? Om eerlijk te zijn had ik het zelf niet echt nodig omdat ik al zwemles had maar ik had een hoop kinderen in mijn klas die iid te arm waren om les te krijgen. Hoop ook dat het weer terug gaat komen, al is het alleen al voor die kleintjes van groep 1 t/m 4!
I love your interest for our little country. Some pretty cool stuff gets made here. Non-related: Texas is the cool part of america (in a non-temperature way). It has like the stereotypical things, and also cool cities like Austin. I realised i said cool 3 times in my comment. (Now 4)
You started talking about Texas and flooding and the measures like dams, we in the Netherlands have a different approach, you can't fight against water, you have to give it space in a controlled way, the water has to go and it goes somewhere, resistance is futile.
1:32 Yes and no. Technically speaking this system can act and will act without any person ever taking any action. However, since software is made by people and people are imperfect, monitoring and intervention will alway remain a top priority. The system can be closed (or avoided from closing for that matter) at any time. Both automated systems and human involvement are important in this process. End resposibility remains always with us. 2:12 The 3 rivers in Dutch are called (left to right) Schelde, Maas and Rijn
Well if you say that over there is the flash flood capital than watch and learn becouse I've seen that the American motto of just rebuild over and over again just doesn't work. There were some really bad flash floods just a few months ago, towns in Germany and Belgium were almost wiped of the map by the river diverging thru the town center, it was terrible. But becouse of our flood prevention methods our damage was minimal eventhough it were the same rivers.
if you love giant machines, it's too bad they didn't show you the two cranes that park there ; Thialf, and Sleipnitz th-cam.com/video/4LdnQBemxRA/w-d-xo.html they are used to lift oil drilling stations onto their sockets, -which they place too. Also another cool Dutch machine company is Mammoet, which hauls impossible huge loads from here to there
If the Netherlands wants to save its land then the Dutch government should plant as many native trees in their country as possible. The trees take water from the land and hold the land firmly by their roots. There is no better natural way than mangroves to save the land lost in the sea, and the Netherlands will have to import sand from Arab countries. At least one thousand tons of sand should be imported to the Netherlands every year in large ships and coconut trees should be planted on the shores of the Netherlands. (Suggestion from Pakistan)
Those islands are manmade and used to strengthen those storm surge barriers. Also a company called Center Parks created an holiday resort on one of them. On a different island you can find a waterpark, a aquarium. and a museum where people can learn more about these constructions. They also have some areas that are great for all sorts of animals to live. So all of that new space is being put in good use.
Correct. Worth mentioning though, is that the islands were already sandbanks to begin with (Neeltje Jans, Roggenplaat)
The maasland kering i was there when it happend , working for the dutch pilots at the time , the entire harbour was flooded 1 meter above the walkways and piers. It was quete the storm.
@03:30 As stated below they are man made. There were some shallow sandbanks that were used.
Just build a dike around it and fill it up with sand does the trick. (a bit simplistic maybe...)
@04:09 Here, another method was used. The protruding part (at 10 o'clock) was fully reclaimed on the sea by raising, using suction dredgers further out to sea. After that the harbor was dredged out.
It is now a port for the largest container ships.
@07:44 No dams are involved. The project is called "Room for the river". So there was a large volume added for high levels in the river to overflow in, thus preventing even higher levels to occur.
Many of the dots along the river are locations of emergency water storage areas to keep cities dry, if the river including the standard floodzones along the river aren't enough. It mostly is agricultural areas where houses have been removed or rebuilt on mounds so that the emergency flooding of the area doesn't affect these houses.
3:40 those places had sandbars already in place on which they build the islands.
So it was essentially working with what was already there and exploiting it to their best abilities.
Watching this makes me proud of our tiny country.
All levies are designed to close without any human interference. This is to avoid closing them to become a political decision as it hurts the economy. The only exception is when tests are conducted, but all computers must then be set in a certain mode (test mode) which is a complicated task. When the test is done, the computers are set on normal mode and nobody can interfere anymore. I think the computers give some forewarning time, so that the harbor authorities and ship's captains can anticipate the closure. The delta works by the way, cost more money than the Apollo project to put a man on the moon. Not bad for a country the size of New Jersey (or about). And that was only the coastal bit. Not considering the Room for the River bit. Also in technology (material science and fluid simulation, and the necessary new mathematics, for example) the delta works were more complicated than putting a man on the moon. Still, according to most environmental scientists, we will loose the fight in the next two centuries because of climate change and the resulting sea level rise of between 2 and 20 meters.
OH WOW, my city will be closer to the sea! And with 10 meters to spare elevation wise, I can continue to live there where basically more than 75% of the Netherlands will be under water. (And probably large parts ot Germany too if it is to be 20 meters)
20 maters is a bit drastic i think the ice on the poles literally dented the earth there so when its gone we will establish new holland on antartica and have an elfstedentocht every winter
@@michielvdvlies3315 can't have that, Antarctica, for now, is a no go area. It might be possible in the future but it won't be the Dutch who have a claim on it... pipedream for the Dutch to live there. Ah well, if it gets inundated most will drown if it were to happen in a short time. If not, probably the refugees will become a problem.
I disagree with Delta Works being more complex than the Apollo program. The 2 projects are not comparible to eachother in the slightest. They are both great and boundary pushing projects in thier own way.
And we have a whole bunch of enviromental scientists to prove wrong in the coming centuries;)
@@roelwieggers4181 I was an environmental scientist. All scientist love to be wrong. It means new insights! But especially environmental scientists would really, really love to be wrong. Don't think that they like it to give such negative future projections. Not at all. As for the Apollo comparison, I disagree. Rockets were invented in WW2, Werner von Braun onlys switched countries and scaled up. Computers on board Apollo were not revolutionary, nor was the software. Even your pocket calculator can do more. For the delta works, whole new science fields (fluid dynamics and sea bed behavior) had to be explored. New building techniques invented and new building materials for making the pillars for the dams.
They always forget the first barier of the Deltaworks build in 1958 near Krimpen aan den IJssel .
Even with all the work we do, nature does manage to catch us of guard . We recently had a pretty big flood, the surprise being it was in the highest part of the country. But even with a lot of damage there were no lives lost, and being a resident of that area, I can say we are already working on making it safe again. i just wonder what is going to happen in other parts of the world like the US where they do not have a system of watertax, for contruction and maintenance of flood defenses. ( hell i remember mentioning it on a US site and the room exploded when I said taxes. )
Only reason is: we underestimated climate change, what we saw was 10 years earlier than predicted.
They automated it with a good reason:
We do not want a human to decide when it should close.
A human can not make a good decision:
- Do I have family that could be flooded?
- How much economic damage is there if I close it?
Only a computer can make the right decision.
Except of course for the little fact there is always humans monitoring the activity and ready to intervene in case your perfect software made by humans proves to have a bug or a glitch.
It is relying on both, one can not work without the other, both are of equal importance. We don't want to be relying on JUST a computer, we don't want to be relying on JUST humans.
@@mavadelo That was to obvious, a operator will always be there, of course.
But my point is the same:
The decision is always made by the software.
The operator will only interfere if the software is failing.
@@PieterPatrick I know I might be nitpicking a bit but I really think it is important to acknowledge the importance of both. I do agree that using automated processes with sofisticated measuring equipment is the way to do it. The end resposibility always remains and should remain in human hads though. I have worked with to many software programs to trust that a program is without bugs. But these bugs can kill.
As a all-round process operator myself, I agree.
Nice vid. You should look into additional problems and solution regarding this. As said in the end of the vid you watched, parts of land can be elevated, but the real problems come when sea rises that much, those rivers lay way below sea level, so riverfloods will occur, sluices/locks can't solve
Those islands are man-made, part of the construction. The largest of them is called Neeltje Jans and was also used as a construction base for the pylons that were then floated into position by special, purpose-built ships. There is a museum on Neeltje Jans nowadays about the 1953 flood and the Delta Works that you might consider visiting when you visit The Netherlands (although with all the stuff you guys already have on your list you're probably going to have to apply for temporary residence permits to see it all 😉).
Regarding the Maeslantkering, the best way to think of it is this:
Storm surge and flood water: "I'm an irresistible force!!"
Maeslantkering: "I'm an immovable object. Your call."
1:12 yes, the biggest joints in the world can be found in the netherlands
The Measland keering is indeed impressive. I live about a 15min. Drive from this gigantic work, standing next to the joints you will be amazed by the shear size of them. Makes me proud as a Dutchman and feel save
Regarding the sea level rise, it's been VERY constant in the time since we started measuring it accurately, which now is 100 to 120 years. No radical changes have occurred...
Earthquakes might occur due to the ice on the south pole and Greenland melting. E.g. the ice sheet on Greenland is roughly 2.500 x 1.000 km with an average thickness of 1,5 km. That's a lot of pressure that will be released after it is gone.
Greenland is located on a different Tectonic Plate than the Netherlands.
Lifting of the other Plate may cause more than usual activity at the boundary.
That could possibly effect Iceland, the Netherlands probably not at all.
@@tomvanaarle2622 Oh absolutely but I was reacting to Texan Reacts remark about earthquakes being part of climate change effects.
@@fredvanderzee6318 OK
I was born on a dike haha 👶🏼 🏡 🌊
1953 was horrible. My grandmother was a kid, she was visiting Zeeland (south area on the coast) for a few weeks and she never swim again. When I was a kid we even had mandatory swimminglessons at middleschool because our country excist 20% or something out of water. Safety first 🤓 I wonder if middleschools still do that. There are many dutch movies about that storm.
Most schools dropped swimming classes somewhere around the 80's, which i think is a shame as not everyone can afford to get private swimming lessons
@@Woekkie Echt? Zo vroeg al? Om eerlijk te zijn had ik het zelf niet echt nodig omdat ik al zwemles had maar ik had een hoop kinderen in mijn klas die iid te arm waren om les te krijgen. Hoop ook dat het weer terug gaat komen, al is het alleen al voor die kleintjes van groep 1 t/m 4!
Too bad they didn't talk about how we made a 12th province finished in the 60's and dammed a sea to make it a lake...
Just so you know, the Dutch are heavily involved in helping y'all in Texas.
I love your interest for our little country. Some pretty cool stuff gets made here.
Non-related: Texas is the cool part of america (in a non-temperature way). It has like the stereotypical things, and also cool cities like Austin.
I realised i said cool 3 times in my comment. (Now 4)
The Dutch are called in to save the US cities too. Like new orleans,housten,atlanta,newyork check the Dutch dialogs
You started talking about Texas and flooding and the measures like dams, we in the Netherlands have a different approach, you can't fight against water, you have to give it space in a controlled way, the water has to go and it goes somewhere, resistance is futile.
1:32 Yes and no. Technically speaking this system can act and will act without any person ever taking any action. However, since software is made by people and people are imperfect, monitoring and intervention will alway remain a top priority. The system can be closed (or avoided from closing for that matter) at any time. Both automated systems and human involvement are important in this process. End resposibility remains always with us.
2:12 The 3 rivers in Dutch are called (left to right) Schelde, Maas and Rijn
A Texan bloke that likes things that are big, massive and huge.... well I be damned!
Because We Can greetings from Amsterdam
Well if you say that over there is the flash flood capital than watch and learn becouse I've seen that the American motto of just rebuild over and over again just doesn't work. There were some really bad flash floods just a few months ago, towns in Germany and Belgium were almost wiped of the map by the river diverging thru the town center, it was terrible. But becouse of our flood prevention methods our damage was minimal eventhough it were the same rivers.
if you love giant machines, it's too bad they didn't show you the two cranes that park there ; Thialf, and Sleipnitz
th-cam.com/video/4LdnQBemxRA/w-d-xo.html
they are used to lift oil drilling stations onto their sockets, -which they place too.
Also another cool Dutch machine company is Mammoet, which hauls impossible huge loads from here to there
"DAAAAAAMMMMMMMM(n)"
6:57 Just ask the people who live on land that regularly suffers from earthquakes due to natural gas and or oil extraction.
I'm Dutch, I've never experienced a flood
Wonder why….
The duch have helpt theAmerikans
Het beste in de wereld klein maar fijn
The did self
If the Netherlands wants to save its land then the Dutch government should plant as many native trees in their country as possible. The trees take water from the land and hold the land firmly by their roots. There is no better natural way than mangroves to save the land lost in the sea, and the Netherlands will have to import sand from Arab countries. At least one thousand tons of sand should be imported to the Netherlands every year in large ships and coconut trees should be planted on the shores of the Netherlands.
(Suggestion from Pakistan)