a A piece of reclaimed land is called polder, and Holland has thousands of polders. Some are very large, but others are quite small. There are farms on many of the polders. Corn and other crops grow well on the drained land, and it gives good grass for cattle. Many small towns and...
They called them terpen. Over time, these terpen were connectedby dikes-low walls usually made of earth. The dikes connected the terpen intovillages and also stopped the flow of the sea and rivers. People began to usedikes to dam larger areas of land. These reclaimed areas were called ...
For the next few centuries, the Dutch worked to slowly push back the water of the Zuiderzee, building dikes and creating polders (the term used to describe any piece of land reclaimed from water). Once dikes were built,canalsand pumps were used to drain the land and to keep it dry. ...
Soil structure and land drainage within the reclaimed ground. 1.7.2 Contaminated land It is not unusual for industrial land or land formed from tipped waste to be contaminated to some degree. Heavy contamination will have to be dealt with as a particular engineering problem: i.e. to seal, bu...
Between 1960 and 2015, there were increases in urbanised area, reclaimed land, and artificial shoreline extent. The total extent of mangrove forests has remained relatively stable but this balance is characterised by significant losses on the east coast coupled with increases on the west coast. ...
Currently, Vietnam has reclaimed land from the sea on more than 20 South China Sea islands and reefs, on which Vietnam has built a lot of infrastructures including harbor basins, an airstrip, missile positions, office buildings, barracks, hotels and lighthouses. ...
Distribution Main: A Reclaimed Water Main installed within individual streets, developments, or subdivisions which deliver Reclaimed Water from the transmission main to the Customer's Service Connection. District: Areas of land or water, whose boundaries are indicated on the Official Zoning Atlas, wit...
overburden - the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits permafrost - ground that is permanently frozen polder - low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) ...
Residential lands were reclaimed or will be reclaimed from the sea or swampland if the demand for land is sufficiently high. By 1950, approximately 30% of the world's population lived in urban areas. That number is now nearing 50%, with a current urban population estimated at 2.9 billion ...
Other countries in Asia are also embarking on mega-reclamation works. The Philippines is reclaiming 1,010 acres from the sea for its New Manila Bay and Sri Lanka is building a new financial district called Colombo International Financial City on reclaimed land. ...