Barriers, dikes and enclosing works built to hold back the sea and to reclaim or protect low-lying land. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a storm surge barrier, dike or land reclamation project. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
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Flood Defence and Land Reclamation Works
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Delta Works (Wikipedia)
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The Delta Works (Dutch: Deltawerken) is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea.
Thames Barrier (Wikipedia)
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The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.
Zuiderzee Works - Wikipedia
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The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) is a system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage work, which was the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
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