diking
Building flood barriers
Diking is the construction or maintenance of dikes—embankments built to control water, prevent flooding, or reclaim land from the sea.
The Netherlands is famous for its diking, having reclaimed much of its territory from water over centuries.
The word also applies to creating drainage channels or ditches.
In geology, diking refers to the formation or intrusion of dikes—sheets of igneous rock that cut through existing rock layers.
River flood barrier
- damWater-holding barrier
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- polderDiked tract below sea level
- floodgateWater-controlling barrier mechanism
spillway · diversion · channel · waterway · overflow · flood prevention · water management · sluice
Raised earth structure
- leveeRiver flood barrier
- earthworkConstructed soil structure
- constructionProcess of building something
- excavationAct of unearthing
foundation · surveying · dredging · fill · compaction · grading · reinforcement · riprap
Diked tract below sea level
- drainageLiquid removal system
- pumpingForcing flow mechanically
- seawallCoastal erosion barrier
- tidalOf sea rhythms
marsh · wetland · agricultural · Netherlands · fenland · lowland · reclaimed land · windmill
levee
River flood barrier
floodgate · spillway · diversion · channel · waterway · overflow · flood prevention · water management · sluice · weir
embankment
Raised earth structure
- leveeRiver flood barrier
- earthworkConstructed soil structure
- constructionProcess of building something
excavation · foundation · surveying · dredging · fill · compaction · grading · reinforcement · riprap · cofferdam
polder
Diked tract below sea level
tidal · marsh · wetland · agricultural · Netherlands · fenland · lowland · reclaimed land · windmill · sluice gate
- Land Improvementland reclamation, soil improvement, soil amendment, erosion control, soil conservation
- land changeslandslides, earthquake, erosion, landslide, earthquakes
- reclamationland reclamation, energy recovery, habitat restoration, revegetation, reforestation