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room for the river
Facts & Figures
Provinces
Initiation: 2007 Completion:
2019
The rivers IJssel, Rhine, Lek and Waal are given more room at 34 different locations.
9
34
different methods are used
2
Projects
600
Ministry of Economic affairs and Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
Real estate agreements
Room for the River increases the discharge of Dutch 足rivers capacity from 15 to
16 million liters per second at the Dutch-German border
12
Extremely high water levels in 1993 and 1995.
Regional Water Authorities
250,000
people and a million animals had to be evacuated in 1995
47 million m3 ground transportation (= 1.5 times from Sydney to Amsterdam of filled trucks)
Relocation of
150
houses and over 40 farmers
60
Municipalities Total area
24,000
hectare (= 36,000 soccer fields) Dry feet for
4
million Dutch citizens
2.5 Budget
billion euro's