RECLAIMING FROM SEA
Some parts of the country want more water, but in Holland the draining of the Zuyder Zee aims to add 550,000 acres of land. The total cost of this (Treat engineering feat is estimated to reach forty million pounds. A tremendous dvko, 336 ft. thick at the base and 19 miles long, is being built, from sand and stiff clav. buttressed with brush wood and weighted with stone, across Tn nuth of Zuyder Zee. W ' ■ dvke is finished the water on the land side will be pumped out and the new land will be allowed to lie fallow for some time until rains havojwashed out the sen salt. Mean while, as grass grows it will be used for grazing. Only those 1 sections that will yield t b e bust soil for | agricull ma! pii'p'»ses are being drained l . Holland will thus add an additional I land area of seven per cent.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 15
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