Dredge Drain Reclaim The Art of a Nation

During the occupation of the Netherlands the Germans made it impossible to carry out any maintenance work on our shores or any sounding, soil investiga­ tion or current-measurement work off the co ast, in the estuary of the Scheldt or in the channels between the Frisian Islands. The work ofDr. Johan...

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Main Author: Van Veen, Johan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1962, 1962
Edition:5th ed. 1962
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Preface -- Foreword -- In honour of a master of the floods -- I: Spade Work -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. The ‘Golden Hoop’ -- 3. Perseverance -- 4. Success -- 5. Windmills -- 6. Ancient Dutch Abroad -- 7. Balance of Losses and Gains -- 8. Three Williams the First -- II: Dredges’ Work -- 9. ‘Waterstaat’ and ‘Waterschappen’ -- 10. A Kingdom for a Dredge! -- 11. The Spade once more -- 12. The Birth of the Dredge -- 13. The Rotterdam Waterway -- 14. The Amsterdam Waterway -- 15. Improvement of the Rivers -- 16. Canals for Inland Shipping -- III: Masters of the Floods -- 17. Reclamation of the Zuiderzee -- 18. Walcheren -- 19. Scientific Investigation -- 20. Modern Dutch Abroad -- 21. The Tools -- 22. Riches -- IV: A new Storm, a new Start -- 23. Dutch Floods Abnormal -- 24. The Vulnerable Country -- 25. Great Safety Projects Ready -- 26. Engineers and Fleet on the Alert -- 27. Vierlingh’s View -- 28. The Delta Plan -- 29. The Road Ahead -- 30. Luctor et Emergo -- 31. Our forgotten six Commandments 
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520 |a During the occupation of the Netherlands the Germans made it impossible to carry out any maintenance work on our shores or any sounding, soil investiga­ tion or current-measurement work off the co ast, in the estuary of the Scheldt or in the channels between the Frisian Islands. The work ofDr. Johan van Veen, then leader of this survey, therefore came to astandstill. He then came to me and asked me to give him some task, so that he, an indefatigable worker, could continue to have work, the best antidote against the German poison, which affected only permanently unemployed men. I knew his love for the history of our traditional handling of the defence against the water. An all-round study had never been published, for in normal times a man with full knowledge of this type of work cannot find time for such a study, as water is our everlasting enemy, which must be kept under continual elose observation. From Dr. van Veen's book it will be elear that the Dutch manner of dredging, draining and reelaiming is a combination of traditions inherited from our ancestors and applied science to cope with modern demands. This tradition is in our blood. A more intimate knowledge of it will, I hope, furnish a kcy to so me of the salient points in our national character