European experience Hero de Boer ambassador met yesterday with the municipality and the mayor Tohá Van Rysselberghe, as well as academic and military authorities.
A visit to Concepción in July, in a day's time, was enough for the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Hero de Boer, understand the seriousness of the problem of flooding and overflowing rivers have emerged in the area and its interest in helping find solutions to these problems.
For this reason, Ambassador De Boer yesterday met with Maria Soledad Tohá Intendant, with Mayor Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, in addition to military and academic authorities to offer their cooperation country in the design of civil works required for the region.
"Our experience could be of interest here," said the ambassador, who proposed that the close relationship between the Netherlands and Chile, which currently focuses on trade, would expand into areas of knowledge, specifically in the field of hydraulic engineering .
Hero de Boer said that his country would be honored to provide the Chilean authorities technical capabilities in these areas and raised the possibility of any cooperation and exchange between institutions in that European country and the region of Bio Bio.
Currently in the Netherlands, there is much concern about climate change, said the ambassador, and how it could affect sea level and behavior of the tides. Therefore all existing works to protect the population, he said, should be reviewed and if necessary, modified.
Another issue that has emphasized his country, he said, is that civil works such as dams, locks, waterways and ports, cause the minimum of negative effects on the environment.
This said, in recent years have seen changes that allow wildlife to cross the civil works, including water areas sweet and salty.
also the experience of the Netherlands has been made available to U.S. reconstruction efforts in the city of New Orleans, destroyed by flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina. Technical
the country traveled to the city to inspect dams and containment works that failed during the storm.
The Delta Plan
Netherlands, popularly known as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is characterized precisely because 20% of its territory was recovered at sea and can be occupied by man complex water drainage systems , whose construction began in the Middle Ages. However, this system of dams and barriers has not been infallible. The year 1953 saw a major flood in the North Sea, which left 1,835 people dead and destroyed nearly five thousand homes.
To address this disaster was made an ambitious conservation project, called "Delta Plan", which lasted for 30 years, which meant the construction of 13 dams and was crowned with the barrier antitormentas of Rotterdam. Hero
Ambassador de Boer warned that the river protection works required Conception should be part of a long term project in the city to compromise on a plan to prevent flooding by overflowing rivers.
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* Daily, Wednesday, November 8, 2006.
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