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The Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken (Zuiderzee Works Department), the government body responsible for overseeing the construction and initial management, was set up in May 1919. In the initial stages of the work heavy clay was dredged out of the open sea and deposited along the track to be followed by the dam.
Construction of foundations for the Stevinsluizen sluice complex of the Afsluitdijk by MUZ (1930). The Maatschappij tot Uitvoering van Zuiderzeewerken (MUZ) (English: Society for the Execution of the Zuiderzee Works) was a consortium of dredging contractors in the Netherlands, formed in August 1926 for the specific purpose of executing the Zuiderzee Works.
Historical map of the Netherlands (1658) with the Zuyder Zee. The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (Dutch: [ˌzœydərˈzeː] ⓘ; old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.
Amsteldiepdijk is a dike between Van Ewijcksluis and the island of Wieringen.It was built in 1924 and closes a portion of the Amsteldiep and of the Ulkediep.. It is often considered to be the first work of engineering of the Zuiderzee works.
The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) are a system of dams, land reclamation, and water drainage works. The basis of the project was the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a large shallow inlet of the North Sea. This dam, called the Afsluitdijk, was built in 1932–33, separating the Zuiderzee from the North Sea.
In 1948, he was promoted to Chief Engineer-Director, a position he held until 1958. He continued to serve as an advisor until 1963. His extensive knowledge on the Zuiderzee Works was encapsulated in the book Een halve eeuw Zuiderzeewerken (Half a century of the Zuiderzee Works), which he published in 1972 at the age of 80. [7] [8]
Tollebeek is one of ten villages in the Noordoostpolder (literally: North East Polder) which was reclaimed from the Zuiderzee (now: IJsselmeer) in the 1930s and 1940s as part of a huge project known as the 'Zuiderzeewerken' ('Zuiderzee works') to create new land to accommodate growing need for farmland and new urban areas in the already densely ...
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