Hartelkering
Sign in to saveThe Hartelkering (English: Hartel barrier) is a storm surge barrier in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. The barrier is part of the Europoortkering, itself part of the Delta Works project and is designed to close the Hartelkanaal (nl) in case of a storm surge.
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- Part of
- Delta Works
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Nissewaard
- Owned by
- Rijkswaterstaat
- Image
- Hartelkering.jpg
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- Hartelkering
- number of spans
- 2
- crosses
- Hartelkanaal
- located in/on physical feature
- Hartelkanaal
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- 8 November 2007 storm
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The Hartelkering (English: Hartel barrier) is a storm surge barrier in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. The barrier is part of the Europoortkering, itself part of the Delta Works project and is designed to close the Hartelkanaal (nl) in case of a storm surge.
==Overview== The barrier consists of two vertical lift gates, and in length. The gates have a height of above NAP when closed. The water level at this location can become higher, but in order to prevent flooding of the Europoort-area the gates were designed to allow the water to overtop the gates in extreme situations. The amount of water would be too small to cause any problems in the protected area but it does limit the surgelevel in the unprotected areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hartelkering” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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