Relocated houses on flood-free mounds in Noordwaard flood storage and bypass area adaptation terp living with water BMP

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Relocated houses on flood-free mounds in Noordwaard flood storage and bypass area

Samenvatting (Dutch description)

Relocated houses on flood-free mounds in Noordwaard flood storage and bypass area

different strategies involve prolonged and massive investments in construction and maintenance and have profound impacts on present and future land use. Especially, the ‘living with water’ strategy may cause large societal and political debate, since the Dutch culture has been for a thousand years based on protection against floods and reclaiming land from the sea. On the other hand, elements of this ‘amphibious’ strategy already exist locally, but are less known and widespread. For example, to provide additional flood discharge and storage capacity, in the former Noordwaard, polder houses have been removed or relocated to outside the flood plain or to mounds

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