Brave-Examination-70 t1_j1iwcaz wrote on December 24, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Reply to comment by qtx in The $52 billion plan to save New York’s low-lying areas from sea level rise and storm surges by ChiggaOG

The Dutch have mostly stopped building seawalls and are instead restoring the natural barriers that would prevent this like wetlands and sandbars.

Tar_alcaran t1_j1ll3t4 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 10:47 AM

As a Dutch person... what?

We just threw 2 billion euros at raising and strengthening the Afsluitdijk and installin some insanely huge pumps to make sure we can get rid of water from the IJsselmeer even in high-sealevel conditions. That's on top of the 1.2 billion were spending on the Delta Program every year to make sure we're beating climate change.

There are no sea-side wetlands to prevent flooding in the Netherlands (though were definitely doing that for our rivers. There are large sections of coast that have dunes, but that's not new, that's how they've always been. We DO do a lot of shoreline suppletion, which maintains the beaches and dunes, but that's not really a solution for many places.