On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:31 AM, sparaig wrote:
But the land gets flooded regularly because it is in a flood basin.
The dikes along the rivers
have failed many times in Limburg, even though it is the hilliest
part of the Netherlands.
The Maas basin where the province of Limburg sits is very flood-
prone. Vlodrop is only a
few miles southeast of Roermond and a few miles northeast of
Maastricht, both of which
are notorious worldwide for flooding and Vlodrop is 25-30 meters
lower than Maastricht
and only a few meters higher than Roermond. The whole area is
drained marshland, as far
as I can tell.
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