Hi, I'm Aaron. I want to tell you about Delta Works. It's very cool, you won't believe it.

History

The section of the river that meets the sea, or estuary, of the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt have been subject to many flooding over the centuries. So someone had to figure out how to stop the flooding. The Dutch decided to do something about it. They did it by studying the damming of the Rhine-Meuse Delta. The plans were made for shrinking the coast line and turning the estuary into some fresh water lakes. By doing this, less dikes would have to be reinforced.

They planned to block some parts of the river estuaries, in the Oosterschelde, Haringvliet and Grevelingen. These are some pretty weird names! This shrunk the dikes quite a bit. The Delta works are a bunch of structures built in the years 1950 to 1997 to do just this. This is what Delta Works does…they make dams to make sure to stop the flooding problems and give us fresh water.

Conclusion

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