Incredible Engineering: Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier


	Incredible Engineering: Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier

alanocu

11-27-2007 6:06 AM

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netherlands, maeslantkering, engineering

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11-27-2007 6:12 AM

swampfoxz

Amazing!

11-27-2007 8:01 PM

kkcapricorn

Some countries deal with their problems rather than just seek ways to profit from them

11-27-2007 8:25 PM

meancookie89

AND this is gonna work? Hmmmmm!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/193e3050-4e38-460a-9b28-5c72b623029a/F80BAA74-8804-46D0-A5DE-023C6008DACA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/" href="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/" style="font-size: 11px;">deputy-dog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/">the maeslant barrier (maeslantkering), a huge storm surge barrier at the mouth of the port of rotterdam in the netherlands, is the largest hydraulic engineering structure on earth </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/deputy-dog.com/img/02797C22-F4A9-4FEF-9513-48781C9D1C97" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/">it was opened in 1997 as the final part of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.deltawerken.com/English/10.html?setlanguage=en">delta works</A>, an enormous project undertaken in order to protect certain coastal areas of the country from the sea after a flood in 1953 killed more than 1800 people in the area.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/deputy-dog.com/img/D9607BC0-2E45-4878-B50D-6DEB6919783C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/">the barrier consists of 2 incredible movable gates which automatically sweep across the water, meeting in the middle of the waterway to form a temporary wall, each of the gates rotating on 680-ton steel ball joints which, with a diameter of 35ft, are also the largest in the world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/deputy-dog.com/img/37C715D9-78DA-4B72-BAC2-5EDB64FA1B61" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><P>a few weeks ago (<A target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7086175.stm">november 8th</A>) the barriers were used for the first time prior to fierce storms and succeeded in protecting the port from flooding. the gates, weighing the equivalent of 4 eiffel towers, took 30 minutes to close.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/deputy-dog.com/img/F6811240-95CB-43B5-8DA2-F0AAB696E06F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><P>below is the barrier as seen on google maps, the direct link is <A target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=51.954356,4.164634&spn=0.007749,0.016479&z=16&om=1">here</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/26/the-maeslant-storm-surge-barrier/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/deputy-dog.com/img/D23F8DFE-2DA0-45E0-8076-584C61035EDB" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F80BAA74-8804-46D0-A5DE-023C6008DACA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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