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Sen. Jeremy England explores Netherlands flood-control solutions for coastal Mississippi

State Sen. England recently returned from a trip to the Netherlands sponsored by the American Flood Coalition.
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Can the Dutch now learn flood control lessons from New Orleans? 'Katrina was the incentive.'

Marc Walraven, who has been instrumental in operating the Netherlands’ flood control infrastructure, wore his cowboy boots while he was in New Orleans. The organization he helped found, I-STORM, a ...
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Greetings from the Biesbosch: The Dutch Try Something New (For Them)

I’m writing this from the Netherlands. Today I spent the day at the Noordwaard, a former farming polder (or protected basin) ...
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Netherlands' 9km flood barrier triggered "sand hunger," shrinking tidal flats

The Netherlands built one of the world’s most ambitious flood defences after the devastating North Sea flood of 1953. Completed in 1986, the 9-kilometre Eastern Scheldt Barrier was designed to protect ...