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Examples of polder
polder
All three were built with extra capacity with the future southern polder in mind.
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The polder lies lower than the surrounding water on the other side of the dike.
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The first polder, Wieringermeer, was dammed in 1929 and fully drained in 1930.
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The colour gold indicates the high costs of the project of making the polder.
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Important institutes, like the SER, of the polder model were founded in this period.
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The first polder mills using a waterwheel could raise water at most 1 meter.
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If one station lost power, the other one would still be able to keep the polder dry.
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Priority to the early pioneers who had been in the polder since the start.
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Originally, this low part of the new polder was destined to become an industrial area.
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- Low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)
- A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually-operated devices. ...
- POLDER is the acronym (POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances) used for the name of an environmental satellite radiometer developed by the French space agency CNES.
- An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes
- (Polders) areas of reclaimed land that were once part of the sea bed in the Netherlands. See lsselmeer Polders.
- Reclaimed land created by the construction of an embankment or dyke to hold back water that would otherwise flood the new surface.
- Tract of low land, reclaimed from marshland, the sea or an other body of water, by endiking it; in a polder, runoff is controlled by sluicing or pumping, and the watertable is controlled and independent of the watertable in the adjacent areas
