>>24175>>24176 The Army Corps of Engineers were to do the work and get paid for a bid of +,- 10 billion and take years to finish. Nothing more was ever spoken on the matter. The money could be made available but it's much more important to capture an astroid.

Well, the Deltawerken weren't cheap or quick: started in 1958 and finished in 1997 with a total cost of 10 billion guilder or 5.8 billion us dollar. And pretty much any build in the Netherlands isn't cheap or quick.

>>24174 I assume referring to the politicians. Often in cases like this the engineers are restricted to budgets put in place by those without proper knowledge, thereby compromising the build. In all cases of design the three variables are Quick, Cheap, and Robust. You can only ever pick two.

I don't think they thought of beavers. They're still learning how to think.

So no beaver approval in the States

>>24169 That video's a good explanation of how the system works.
To answer your question: yes they learned what levee system they had was no damn good. They also knew that all along. They just patched it up because the cost of doing it correctly was in the billions of dollars. So....another hurricane, another flood. The cost of repairing the city could do a lot of work on a good levee. Katrina wasn't the first hurricane to flood the city so...no, the dumb bastards just keep on rolling the dice.

Some construction are really amazing, aren't they? Inside >>24148 there were 2 containers filled with hydraulics and switches (controls). That was really impressive.

I do remember. Have they learned from it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inHaa6wqCdk

>>24154 The people in New Orleans, Louisiana could take a few lessons from this dike system. You may not remember but New Orleans flooded during hurricane Katrina because the Gulf breached their levee system.

>>24160 yeah, me neither. Also the land is way too flat.. But there is the beach and that means pretty women. Oh well, I'll come back when it's proper summer :D

I really wouldn't want to live below sea level no matter how good the levees are!
Interesting from a engineering perspective though.

it's part of the system, these contraptions. We also have normal levees. A majority of the Netherlands is below the waterline. But not where I live :D

Interesting. I'm guessing this is your 'dike' system in the Netherlands? Just a tad different than what Hans Christian Anderson wrote about.

The Deltawerken

same as >>24149

Water rushing back to the North Sea

The top red line on the right was the height of the water in 1953 (North Sea flood)