User:Solitude/Delta Works
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The Delta Works are an elaborate flood defense system in the Netherlands, involving dikes, locks, dams, sluices and canals. Construction started with the Storm Surge Barrier Hollandse IJssel in 1954 right after the flood disaster of 1953, and was finished with the completion of the Maeslantkering in 1997. The Works offer flooding protection to an estimated 300.000 people in the Dutch provinces Zeeland, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant, the entire project cost an estimated €5 billion, which comes down to €16.000 per head of the affected population. The most notable Delta Works dam, The Oosterscheldedam is sometimes referred to as the eighth wonder of the world, and has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.