The fight against the water Brielse Maas completed (Weeknummer 50-27) 🔴
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Date: 2018-02-03

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Content by: Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder)

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Publication Date: 3 July 1950

Description: Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a particular week are presented.

Description (more): Salinisation of the country to prevent the Brielse Maas closed off from the sea by constructing a dam on the place where the Brielse Maas flows into the sea. The dam is built on a gap in the Middle after, that by sinking a caisson will be closed. Shots:-On a topographical map is the situation around the water balance at the Zuidhollandse eilanden Voorne-Putten and the place of the closure;  -in Waterloo research laboratories in Delft is in a large basin closure on small scale simulated; engineers observe and study the State of affairs and carrying out the measurements; -at the site of the final gap is referred to by tugs a floating concrete caisson argued; at slack water, the dangers and in the hole.