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Of the Netherlands’ total land area, which is some 13,969 square miles, about a half lies as much as 16 feet below mean sea level and would be inundated if sea, river or polder dikes were breached. In these low-lying areas (25) are the homes and means of livelihood of something like 60% of the country’s total population.
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The Government Department responsible for rivers, canals, dikes, roads, bridges, viaducts, etc., under the Minister of Traffic and ‘Waterstaat’.
See, for accounts in English, The Way Ahead, special issue of February 1954, Chairman of Editorial Committee Dr. J. van Veen; also Dender-monde, M. and Dibbitts, H. A. M. C.: The Dutch and Their Dikes (De Bezige bij. Amsterdam, 1956).
Afdamming zee-armen. Derde interim-advies, uitbrachts aan de Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat, 1954.
Maris, A. G.: ‘Holland’s Delta Plan of Defence against the Sea’, Progress, V.l. 44, No. 258, Autumn, 1955, Unilever, London.
For map, see Verburg, D.. M. C, Het Delta Plan (G. W. van den Boer, Vol. I, 5th impression, 1959, p. 27).
De Ontwikkeling van de Recreatie in hetgebied Veerschegat-Zandkreek, P.ovinciale Pianologische Dienst voor Zeeland, April 1958.
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Burke, G.L. (1966). The Delta Plan. In: Greenheart Metropolis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81771-9_4
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