How a Country Embraced the River It Feared - Reasons to be …
2023年1月2日 · When the Waal River floods near the Netherlands’ border with Germany, the overflow inundates the Millingerwaard nature reserve, swamping meadows, glades and trails. …
Room for the River Nijmegen - HNS - H+N+S Land
The Waal river makes a sharp bend near Nijmegen and narrows at this point, forming a bottleneck. By moving the dike at Lent 350 metres inland, room is created for a bypass …
Nijmegen: Embracing the River to Combat Flooding
2018年6月26日 · The narrow watershed of the Waal River creates a bottleneck in Nijmegen that has long been prone to flooding. Rather than blocking the river with high levies, the city chose …
A Dutch Approach to Flood Resilience - HUD User
The new diversion channel, once completed, will be 3 kilometers long and 200 meters wide and create an island in the Waal River. Placed at a bottleneck in the river, the diversion channel …
How the Dutch Make "Room for the River" by Redesigning Cities
2012年1月20日 · The river Waal bends sharply near Nijmegen and narrows to form a bottleneck prone to floods. A dike exists, but high water levels in 1993 and 1995 that prompted the …
Waal together make up the programme Room for the River. Room for the river Waal Nijmegen is one of these measures. The river Waal bends sharply near Nijmegen and moreover, it narrows …
How to Eliminate a Hydraulic Bottleneck: Nijmegen, the First …
Near the city of Nijmegen, the cross section of the river Waal, the major branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, decreases by 50% within 2 km. At this point, an urban development project …
Room for the river – NbS for coastal and river flood protection …
2021年11月30日 · The Waal River in the Netherlands narrows significantly as it bends through the city of Nijmegen, creating a bottleneck effect when high river discharge occurs. Faced with the …
Room for the River Waal – protecting the city of Nijmegen
At Nijmegen, the Waal River bends sharply and narrows. This creates a bottleneck, which often caused flooding of the historic city centre of Nijmegen, located on the south bank of the Wall.
Biggest icon project of Room for the River programme officially ...
2015年12月4日 · The river flood protection project not only takes out the narrow bottleneck at the city of Nijmegen, it also created an island park connecting both sides of the river. This …
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