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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #147 Flooding: Making Space for Water
Description: In the summer of 2021 record rainfall overwhelmed river systems across Europe. People in the Limburg region of the Netherlands held their collective breath as water levels in the River Meuse rose. Floods in the 1990s had taught them what devastation flooding could bring. Fortunately, the government had already acted, investing in a unique and technically advanced system of dikes to protect communities, a design which had never been used before. The question was would it work?
Guests
Gert-Ruben van Goor, Senior Project Manager, Fugro
Jules Janssen, Project Director, Dura Vermeer
Theo...