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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Zuiderzee Works
		Opposition came primarily from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, but also from other people living in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea, fearing higher water levels as a result of the closure, as well as those who doubted whether it was financially possible in the first place.
		Work on Eastern Flevoland resumed in 1954 and the dike was finally closed on September 13, 1956.
		A new element in the design of this polder was the intention to establish a larger city to serve as a regional centre for all the polders and perhaps the capital of a potential new province.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/zu/Zuiderzee_Works (4381 words)

	Zuiderzee Works - Definition, explanation
		The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) is a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, and the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
		The project involved the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water body by means of polders.
		Opposition came primarily from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, but also from other people living in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, as well as those who doubted whether it was financially possible in the first place.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/z/zu/zuiderzee_works.php (4704 words)

	Zuiderzee Works
		Opposition came primarily from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, but also from other people living in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea, fearing higher water levels as a result of the closure, as well as those who doubted whether it was financially possible in the first place.
		Work on Eastern Flevoland resumed in 1954 and the dike was finally closed on September 13, 1956.
		A new element in the design of this polder was the intention to establish a larger city to serve as a regional centre for all the polders and perhaps the capital of a potential new province.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/zu/Zuiderzeeworks.html (4356 words)

	Zuiderzee Works Information
		The Zuiderzeewerken (Zuiderzee Works) are a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, and the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
		The project involved the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water body by means of polders.
		Opposition came primarily from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, but also from other people living in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, as well as those who doubted whether it was financially possible in the first place.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Zuiderzee_Works (4727 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Zuiderzee Works
		The Zuiderzeewerken (Zuiderzee Works) are a human-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, and the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
		Original plans for the works date back to the seventeenth century, but it was not until a severe flood struck in 1916, that the Dutch parliament finally agreed.
		After the Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken (Zuiderzee Works Department), the government body responsible for overseeing the construction and initial management, was set up in May 1919, work could commence in earnest.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works (4775 words)

	Zuiderzee Works - Wikinfo
		The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken in Dutch) are a massive hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands in the 20th century.
		Nieuw Land Poldermuseum - A Flevoland museum on the Zuiderzee Works and Dutch water management in general.
		The Zuiderzee Museum - Dedicated to the history and culture of the former Zuiderzee.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Zuiderzee_Works (13157 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Delta Works are a number of constructions that were built between 1950 and 1997 in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land from the sea.
		The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, dykes and storm surge barriers.
		The works would be combined with road and waterway infrastructure to stimulate the economy of the province of Zeeland and improve the connection between the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Delta_Works (761 words)

	/ Netherlands / Dams - Google Earth Explorer
		Description: The Afsluitdijk (Closure-dike) is a major dam in the Netherlands, constructed between 1927 and 1933 that has a length of 32 km and a width of 90 m, at an initial height of 7.25 m above sea-level.
		It is a fundamental part of the larger Zuiderzee Works, damming off the Zuiderzee, a salt water inlet of the North Sea and turning it into the fresh water lake of the IJsselmeer.
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	explorer.altopix.com /maps/384/360/Dams/?order=date (105 words)

	The Memory of the Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Initially, the purpose of Zuiderzee fishing was to feed the population in the surrounding areas.
		During the same period, substantial companies were on the rise in North sea fishing, threatening to outstrip the Zuiderzee fishermen.
		The increasingly serious plans to close off and partly impolder the Zuiderzee discouraged the fishermen to make investments and modernize their ships.
	www.geheugenvannederland.nl /gvnnl/all/DA62E87E-0260-4663-A90F-A0294F3D4487.html (206 words)

	Flevoland
		Located in the centre of the country, at the location of the former Zuiderzee, the province was established on January 1, 1986; the twelfth province of the country, with Lelystad as its capital.
		After a flood in 1916, it was decided that the Zuiderzee, an inland sea within the Netherlands, would be closed and reclaimed.
		Zeewolde became a municipality at the same time as Almere on January 1, 1984, which in the case of Zeewolde meant that the municipality existed before the town itself, with only farms in the surrounding land to be governed until the town started to grow.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fl/Flevoland.html (548 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) are a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works.
		The basis of the project was the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a large shallow inlet of the North Sea.
		It is said that during the North Sea flood of 1953 the Afsluitdijk paid for itself in one night, by preventing flooding on the Zuiderzee coast.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Flood_control_in_the_Netherlands (878 words)

	Cornelis Dopper
		Dopper worked another season at the Lyrisch Tooneel, where his fourth and last opera Het Eerekruis (The Cross of Honour, 1904) was performed.
		This work was performed in the famous concert halls throughout the world under outstanding conductors.
		His interest in Ancient Greek music is apparant from works such as the Sinfonia epica and the orchestral studies Päân I and II.
	www.cornelisdopper.nl /Html/Engels/biography.html (669 words)

	Zuiderzee Works - InformationBlast
		The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken in Dutch) are a massive hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands in the 20th century.
		Building the encircling dike for the Wieringermeer would be a little harder than it was for the later polders, since the Wieringermeer dikes had to be built without the major advantage the as yet unfinished Afsluitdijk would afford for reclamation: the absence of tidal currents.
		The period immediately following World War II was spent on restoring the Wieringermeerpolder and catching up with work on the Noordoostpolder, but it wasn't long before attention turned towards the next project: Eastern Flevoland (Oostelijk Flevoland), at 540 km² the largest of the new polders.
	www.informationblast.com /Zuiderzee_Works.html (4322 words)

	Het Geheugen van Nederland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The two main hydraulic works of the past century — the Zuiderzee works and the Delta works — have therefore been documented by filmmakers in great detail, and have even been the subject of fiction films.
		The Delta works — the construction of dams and dikes after the Great Flood of 1953 — were the umpteenth example of the heroic Dutch battle against the water.
		The post-war documentaries of filmmakers such as Bert Haanstra and George Sluizer about the Delta works and the dams in the rivers of South-Holland however propagate the optimism of the reconstruction: the Netherlands has survived the oppression of World War II and is working on the country’s advancement.
	www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl /gvnnl/handler.cfm/event/onpage/pageID/ECC955C4-2F32-4DD2-AFB3-D13119FBB5C6 (300 words)

	POLDERS - Wieringermeer (1925 - 1935)
		The centuries-long process of reclamation and poldering definitely led to the ambition by engineers to requisition the Zuiderzee (South Sea) as land.
		The Wieringermeer was the first polder to be drained after the passing of the Zuiderzee Act by parliament in 1918.
		The first land parcellation plan (1926) by the Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken (the Zuiderzee Works Department) concentrated on hydraulic aspects of the poldering and an optimum parcellation.
	www.nai.nl /polders/e/polders/wieringermeer_e.html (206 words)

	IJsselmeer Information
		The internal capitalisation in the spelling is caused by the fact that IJ is a diphthong in Dutch, the two letters producing a single vowel sound when pronounced.
		The IJsselmeer was created in 1932 when an inland sea, the Zuiderzee, was closed by a 32 km dam, the Afsluitdijk.
		This was part of a major hydraulic engineering project known as the Zuiderzee Works, that would in later years lead to the reclaiming of land from the IJsselmeer, thereby diminishing the size of the lake.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/IJsselmeer (227 words)

	Flevoland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After a flood in 1916, it was decided that the Zuiderzee, an inland sea within the Netherlands, would be enclosed and reclaimed: the Zuiderzee Works started.
		The Zuiderzee was subsequently called IJsselmeer (lake at the end of the river IJssel).
		A new element in the design of Eastern Flevoland is the larger city Lelystad (1966), named after Cornelis Lely, the man who had played a crucial role in designing and realising the Zuiderzee Works.
	en.askmore.net /Flevoland.htm (807 words)

	Lelystad
		Lelystad is built on the seabottom of the former Zuiderzee.
		The Zuiderzee was the main transport-route from Amsterdam to the North Sea and the Hanze-cities.
		In 1950 work commenced on several construction-islands in the middle of the IJsselmeer.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=100358 (971 words)

	Delta Works - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The Oosterscheldekering is sometimes referred to as the eighth Wonder of the World, and has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
		However, there is an ongoing fundamental discussion about the basics of the Delta Works: the mainland is subsiding and due to global warming and climate changes, sea levels are rising.
		Some people argue that relocation of population centres and giving up land to the sea would be a longer lasting solution than to 'fight the sea'.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=69398 (341 words)

	Flevoland
		After a flood in 1916, it was decided that the Zuiderzee, an inland sea within the Netherlands, would be closed and reclaimed: the Zuiderzee Works started.
		Flevoland was named after Lacus Flevo, a name recorded in Roman sources for a large inland lake that was where the south part of the Zuiderzee was later.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/fl/Flevoland.htm (772 words)

	NOLA.com: Weather News
		Though the Delta Works and other elements of the Dutch flood defenses may be complete, the environment in which they reside is still a work in progress.
		Those were the aims of the Zuiderzee Works, the giant project in the northwest part of the country that, in 1932, dammed the Zuiderzee — an inland sea — and created a giant freshwater lake and in it huge polders for farms and living space.
		The aim of the Delta Works Plan, begun in the early 1960s, was similar: block storm surges and spur development.
	www.nola.com /newslogs/weather/index.ssf?/printer/printer.ssf?/speced/ruinandrecovery/articles/day3.html (2053 words)

	Zuiderzee Works \| Estonian \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		The Zuiderzeewerken (Zuiderzee Works) are a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, and the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
		Ziel war die Trennung der flachen Zuiderzee von der Nordsee und die Gewinnung von Neuland durch den Bau von Poldern im neu entstandenen IJsselmeer.
		De Zuiderzeewerken waren een project waarmee de Zuiderzee werd afgesloten tot IJsselmeer en deels werd ingepolderd.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Zuiderzee_Works/Estonian (258 words)

	POLDERS - The Big Challenge
		In 1886, a group of private individuals established the Zuiderzee Association in the hope of making the ideas about enclosure and poldering a reality.
		The massive scale of the project and the central control of government marks an extremely important period in land development in the Netherlands.
		Town planners and urbanists had more influence on the design of the structural plans, while simultaneously the landscape architects stepped out of the shadows of the architect and the town planners, thus gaining a full-fledged role in the design process.
	www.nai.nl /polders/e/gropgave_e.html (230 words)

	Enkhuizen Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		It is part of the Zuiderzee Works, a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage.
		The purpose of this was to dam off the Zuiderzee, a large shallow inlet of the North Sea, improving flood protection and creating more land for agriculture.
		Apparently many of the communities who lived on the shores of what used to be the saltwater Zuiderzee lost their livelihoods when the sea was dammed off and turned into the fresh water Ijsselmeer (Ijssel lake) as they lost their sea fishing.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Netherlands/Provincie_Noord_Holland/Enkhuizen-461631/Things_To_Do-Enkhuizen-BR-7.html (1183 words)

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