The World's Biggest Flood Defence Megaprojects
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:31 The Failed Plan to Save Venice
10:02 China's Sponge Cites
16:58 The 50 Year Plan to Save Copenhagen
23:34 The Billion Dollar Plan to Save New York
29:17 The $31BN Sea Wall to Save Texas
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The Netherlands is ofcourse already pretty well known for its massive flood defense called the Delta Works, but something interesting that's worth mentioning is that just last week the largest single storm surge barrier of the Delta Works kicked into activation during storm Pia. The 'Maeslantkering' near Rotterdam was constructed in 1997, and is the size of two Eiffeltowers. It was only ever closed for testing or manually as a precaution, untill last thursday saw the first time it's automatic system got triggered by the high sea level pushing into the river.
Think about what is being said in the video...
If sea levels are going to rise by 1 foot by 2050 what bank in their right mind would put a 30-year mortgage on oceanfront properties in the USA? ... and how would you even be able to get insurance on that property?
...sea levels 'could' rise by 1.35 meters (4.43ft), (53 inches) by 2100... MASSIVE projects would be underway 10,000 times what we see now for a 1-foot rise never mind 2 1/4 feet by 2070 and 4 1/2 feet by 2100.
Literally makes no sense at all.
@@gags730 people need to stop living in Florida it should be under water already.
@@gags730
Living below sea level in the Netherlands has prompted us to pioneer flood protection measures, epitomized by the Afsluitdijk-a 32-kilometer dike shielding us from the North Sea and facilitating land reclamation. Currently, we're enhancing it by upgrading gates, reinforcing dikes, and constructing a modern pumping station. In addition to the Afsluitdijk, our history includes landmark projects like the Delta Works, underscoring our commitment to innovative solutions for comprehensive flood management.
Fred. _Fred._ You and I both know that the most permanent thing in the world is a "temporary" solution that works. 😅 Happy new year!
What about a "temporary" solution that doesn't work but a politician is making money off of?
@@willythemailboy2 That sounds like it is working, just not the way anyone else wants 🙃
@@jimsvideos7201 Fair point.
FREE SANDBAGS AT THE FIRESTATION 👨🚒
They should just hire the Dutch
I would like to add that the circulation of sea water inside the lagoon is vital for the cleaning of the water. If the lagoon was closed permanently the water would become sweet and stagnant. Moreover the city has no sewers. The canals are the sewers. So without the tide cleaning the waters twice a day I let you imagine what the lagoon would become.
out of all the B1M/Tomorrow compilations so far this has been the one with the cleanest editing, everything flows so well
Amazing video. Tough, it feels that it is missing the Delta Works from the Netherlands. Just a week ago, the Maeslantkering was automatically closed to protect Rotterdam from the high tide, potentially preventing floods in the area. This massive structure is protecting a fraction of a country that is about 25% underwater.
For the first time for a storm surge it was actually designed for, > 3m N.A.P. All previous closings were practice closings.
I think this video is just a compilation of previous videos. I've seen all of these chapters as individual videos before on the channel.
In their defence though, every single project mentioned is managed by Dutch engineers.
@mompodcasts
They've done an entire video on that, on the B1M channel, this is just a compilation of others
I have recently walked most of the Manhattan shoreline you covered, none of the projects mentioned seem to be ambitious enough, the sea will overwhelm everything.
Venice: lets build our town on water.
Lets also spend lots of effort trying to prevent water.
Unique town, like Atlantis, but sometimes realism needs to set in.
I am truly amazed that a channel with the following and ambition of Tomorrow's build, when it comes to the danish project Lynetteholm, not even ONCE mentions the critique concerning the inflow of saltwater to the Baltic Sea. Yes, some criticism was mentioned, but, from an "excited engineers" point of view, so to say... Disappointing, to say the least.
But hey, let's hope that the critics are wrong... that filling up Kongedybet, one of the major channels for inflow (that is being done as we speak...) is not as serious as it might be... and that the already suffering Baltic Sea, won't be affected by more oxygen depletion than it is today... thanks to Lynetteholm.
Cheers!
This might be a dumb question but doesn't stopping flooding in one place kinda shift it somewhere else?
Great team thanks All of you ❤❤😊
Not only newyork , the golden thumb rule is a few kilometers coastal parks is a must . The coastline must be like a green garland to the inside land.
At some point, I think Venice will have to be dismantled and relocated on higher ground, somewhat similar to Abu Simbel and the Nubian temples when the Aswan Dam was built.
The other option is for the city to become a modern Atlantis or Old Alexandria.
I was waiting for this video
Love your content so keep it up ❤
I miss the chapter about that one country living below sea level
Billions in damages. Billions on defense. How much to rebuild on higher ground?
Gonna miss this channel!
Tried to like this video twice. Excellent production.
I have a plan, a vacuum to another tunnel that at the end can keep collecting items to clear from stucking the other way. Then a lie detector that create worker of clearing item put in a nice place that they wont theft, then each collection, use lie detector to verify ownership.
WOW WOW WOW !! STUNNING VIDEO ONCE AGAIN ! FRED MILLS TOP !!!
Beautiful thumbnail
Galveston and Houston need this. Ike who? Harvey wrecked us way more.
$7B for a something you can't activate by a button? I can turn my air compressor on and off from anywhere in the world with a simple $5 smart outlet. How can they not figure that out with a budget that big?
Because Mafia has cut in it
Probably because they have to go around and inspect everything before turning it on. Saltwater being famously corrosive to steel, I can imagine if there's a hole somewhere it could be a disaster.
Kim Stanley Robisnon's 'New York 2140' provided me with one of the most complelling insights into our future relationship with the ocean. It postulated that perhaps the glass walls and pumps and sealant would take over as the primary means of continuing everyday life in regions consumed partially or entirely by the sea.
Cities like New York simply had walkways straddling the 3rd floor of every building in lower Manhattan, and every day was a battle to keep the foundations dry and façades from collapsing.
🏛️ Well, as Italy is a strong active seismic region, it has been a miracle that Venice hasn't got a single tsunami thus far that will likely completely wipe out the entire city..
The water in the lagoon is too shallow for a tsunami, plus the barrier islands would protect most of it.
@@deathbycheese850 🙏🏻
Very interesting
The theme from Undecided with Matt Ferrell made me question what I was watching! :D
What politician invented the word "resiliency"? The proper word is "resilience".
The Ike Dike looks _a_ _lot_ like some of the Dutch Delta Works. The storm surge barrier that lowers into the water is like the Oosterscheldekering, finished in 1986. The two circular barriers that rotate into the water are modelled after the Maeslantkering in Rotterdam. So, this is proven technology that has been keeping the Netherlands safe from storms for decades.
If any Texans are reading this and worrying whether this will impact their tax rate: you cannot put a price of safety. It's useless paying lower taxes if you drown as a result, or you suffer massive damages. As a Dutchman, I come from a country that is constantly threatened by both the sea and the rivers. A week ago, there was a storm bad enough that all five major storm surge barriers closed. Immediately afterwards, river levels rose, and several areas just about avoided being flooded.
Because it's true that a substantial part of the Netherlands lies below sea level. But once the Delta Works, which protect the Netherlands against the sea, were drawing towards completion in the 1990s, there were bad floods caused by the rivers in 1991 and 1992. And if there's one thing that Dutch engineers can't stand, it's floods. When rivers floods caused hundreds of deaths in Germany and Belgium in 2021, but none in the Netherlands.
It ought to be mentioned that the high river levels of the past week didn't cause major problems in the Netherlands partly because the German defences are lacking. If and when the Germans decide to fix their dikes, it can become a problem. But Germany has an awful lot of infrastructure problems to tackle.
Just leave Moses up all the time and use the locks, for bigger ships use a dock built nearby, goods and tourists can be taken in on smaller craft, they need to do this otherwise there won't be anything for tourists to visit, or just abandon Venice now, they cannot have it both ways.
The Lagoon is not just inhabited by People. There are countless of species of fish, seafood birds etc. that live there too. Not to mention closing the Lagoon would worsen flooding and sediment build-up - All the Major rivers in North Italy open into the Lagoon. Venice is special because is was built in a very special place. So no, your "idea" is incredibly shortsighted.
@@serebii666 pumps and fish steps
@jubmelahtes crayfish and squid don't use fish steps, neither do non-diadroumous fish. The reason why the lagoon cannot be cut off from the sea is because the entire ecosystem there requires a delicate brackish nature that is kept in balance with the fresh water inflows from the rivers and the tide exchanges with the Adriatic. You would kill the ecosystem by cutting off the sea. Not to mention, pumps are the worst thing here, the Lagoon sees notorious amounts of silt buildup, so much so that already in the 16th century they had to geoengineer the river deltas. Fish ladders also work on the basic premise that those fish travel far up-stream, up-hill. Venice's problem is that the lagoon drops under sea-level during tides. There is no uphill.
And that's not discussing the severe economic damage in restricting shipping and transport access to Italy's largest and most important ports. Try again.
@@serebii666 The issue is as I mentioned, they cannot do both, there isn't a perfect solution, Venice needs to just be abandoned.
@@alanzyoutube The issue is that this isn't a solution at all, duh. It is not a solution when you are the architect of the destruction the entire ecosystem, economy and geography of the region of Veneto. Like seriously, do you need to be explained that things die when they're killed?
So far the aquarium panels are a better solution (again not perfect!) than Mose, as per the video itself. Why you demand throwing out the baby with the bathwater otherwise demanding Venice be abandoned as if both those paths don't lead to the same result, that's your comprehension issue, not mine.
The Netherlands not included in this video makes it laughable 😂
Well the channel is called Tomorrow's Build. The Netherlands' flood defence system has already been built for a few decades so it doesn't really fit the criteria.
@@Xxxypher You mean like Vienna's flood defense system?
Battery Park: I reckon that if they redid the renders without the eejits marching/cycling on the spot the level of support would instantly increase
With 1,550,000 people in the contiguous city area I wouldn't call Copenhagen 'much smaller than other European capitals'. Rather, I would say it's an average European capital.
Well, Chicago was raised by 3 meters in the 1800s, it's not like it can't be done. Seems like the only solution for Venice, and it's floating anyway, with access available to the :underside". Just "jack it up" slowly, like they did in Chicago. But a total of 35 cm is a ridiculously small amount. Maybe 35 cm every day for a month!
Not all of Chicago as raised uniformly by 3m, many buildings simply saw their ground floors become basements, like the 1853 Court House. Only a very small section of central Chicago of the time was affected, with the city inhabitants of the time using the regrading as an excuse to demolish and relocate the majority of older buildings that were deemed "not representative" enough for the new wealth established in the city. The total area of Chicago that was raised would not even cover the Cannaregio district of Venice and even that took something like 20 years and that was with the city on dry land.
This is absolutely not a solution for Venice, not only because the fabulous basilicas have precious crypts underneath them, but the city is not in fact floating at all. Venice's buildings, towers and and bridges lie on pile foundations driven deep into the ground made of petrified wood from Istrian Forests. The entire city is sinking not only due to depleted aquifers deep underground, but also because the literal land the entire north of Italy sits on is slowly being subsumed as the tectonic plate is pushed under the Alps.
Texas goes Dutch style!
There must be layers of layers of different garlands that protect the proper main land areas. In temples we have different. Garlands that adore lord balaji. Similarly coastline must have
1. Garland of grasses.
2. Garlands of shrubs or roses
3. Garland of 10 feet growing
utility trees.
4. Garland of 20 ft ie tall or
tallest trees.
It is only after the 4 th Garland that the actual city limit must begin starting from the coast towards the proper main land.
Singapore has a "Long Island" project
A video about , It is said to be the largest building in the world
14:44. Polyurethane binders created to filter water, etc etc....wait a minute! Polyurethane = highly flammable...and when burning: toxic fumes...i hope the sponge cities that have these, have placed them where if they should be involved in a fire, are far from crucial structures, such as hospitals. It seems they are part of road construction, so if a vehicular accident happens and vehicles are burning....
Does someone know the title of the music used on minute 22:30? Thank you
Make a second port? And a road with good access to the city.
That way local fishing boats can be outside the barrier and still fish, and then use a truck of some sort to deliver goods to the city. Would the water be too deep and violent for such a thing?
🤔maybe build a lock between moses for the ships?
What about Toronto?
How can a man stuck in the remote Northeast of Indian subcontinent deliver a solution?!! Support "Masha" for sooner than later deliverance from here of the man!
Anyone conversant with Geography & climate change knows that the planet is like a giant ballon and because CO2 gasses are escaping from volcanoes the Earth is actually shrinking like a ballon, that is why the waters appear to be rising. What is urgently needed is for several large corks to be put in the top of the largest volcanoes.
ok boomer
Venice - get volunteers and get them trained ofc.
This seems so familiar. Was it reuploaded?
R.I.P.
Chinas sponge city is also a good amount of measures taken. Here after initial soaking, they must think of directing the drained water into desert area reclamation may be by way of underground rain flood soaked water transport big cement pipes a few kilometers away to a nearby desert.
Its a bether idea to start building floathing homes in Venice
Тому що це я зробила для всіх людей світу
Venice is gone.. They just haven't excepted it yet
The VENETIAN problem can be fixed very simply.
А тепер зрозумів мене коханий як гади крадуть інформацію про все в інтернеті в тройному тарифі зрозуміло всім гадам в інтернеті нічого не отримав
Підкажете я можна оновити телефон??
Can Venice use sponge city like China?
Ваші пропозиції?.
A crew of 80 is nothing and they complain about paying 80 people.🥴
whahhahahaha did you ever heard of a little country called The Netherlands???
I like the Rain
IPCC data shows that extreme weather is less common now than 100 years ago, property damage and human casualties are lower than 100 years ago, and sea levels aren't rising anywhere near model predictions. They'll be fine until 2500 at least.
I absolutely love your channel. But honestly I don't understand your stance on the MOSE project in Venice. It is not a failed plan. It is working exactly has intended and it's doing its job.
It was never intended to stop every flooding, just the highest and most dangerous ones, above 110cm. For all other floodings there are footbridges and glass barriers. All of them contribute to the objective because all of them have different jobs to do. When the MOSE was designed it was clear that it was a temporary solution like everything we'll always do in Venice, because the problem is Venice itself, where and how it was build 1000 years ago.
Another thing: one of the main reasons the MOSE is not used more often is because closing the water exchange between the lagoon and the open sea will quickly transform the lagoon in a lifeless swamp.
Я кохаю сильно свого коханого чоловіка Гамдан Аль Мактум.
Скільки років назад ви крали все під себе в мене в інтернеті??...А тепер буде навпаки ви будете платити мені все за наклеп за все в тройному тарифі зрозуміло всім гадам в інтернеті??
Зрозуміло всім гадам в інтернеті??
😊
When is the next all-new video, Fred?
After a handful of buildings, someone did not learn or believed they were more powerful than nature. I admire modern engineering and believe Venice is a city like no other / needs to be saved, but in the future man needs to plan better. This is one of the consequences from stubbornness and I believe there are better solutions that could solve this water problem. One of them is thinking futuristic or worst case scenario instead of a simple bandaid attempt. If the entire world played a part and stopped using financial burden as a crutch we could achieve this. We are all going to be affected in some way. (Land erosion, soil becoming acidic, crops dying, food issues, lack of fresh water, animal population dying because of habitat and food, trees dying and climate instability). How hard is it to build safe retainer lakes that would house this water rise? Lakes that will do little to no damage to the environment while these reservoirs help elevate the increase rise worldwide. There are nations where there is very little to no water and this excess water could be desalinized or create salt water lakes for food and recreation. What counties are willing to lose land just for this purpose? African nations with the financial help of others may be willing to do so, but greed and power are more important than equalizing this issue. We won't have a planet left if we do not do something. All this greed and ignorance will not stop a planet that is changing way too fast for us to fix. Imagine a lake the size of just one great lake. Deep enough to hold this water. Imagine 20 to 30 of these lakes spread around the world. They could line the basin with salt resistant material such as tick clay or even specific rocks that absorb salt. I believe a test version could be worth the money. In the US we did have a salt lake that is now dry. It wasn't deep. It was created through a massive mistake, yet it is proof it could happen, could be profitable and could be built correctly.
Where is the higher sea levels
Arnt those people going to be working for the city regardless so running the MOSE should only cost power
Ви зрозуміли мене,.шо проти нас ніхто не розлучить нас в інтернеті..
I like rain...
I liked the video but could have been split up into 5/6 different video's
😂 When I was a young engineer in the early 80s, they knew the Mosai could not solve the whole problem. The old city was built in the middle of a mixed water estuary where fresh water and salt water mix, plus the pollution from human waste, it's one of the toughest problems to solve and the energy cost to save it who pays, government, local citizens, or the world?
It isn't a failed project, it radically reduced the impact of high tides on Venice's buildings
Venice's flood defences were poorly designed and executed. Build a seawall and locks. They work.
Where is the evidence for rising sea levels? As mentioned here, Venice is sinking, that's not quite the same thing.
China has no storm water drains
Я роблю все хороше, проти гадів.
The most tragic thing is the massive corruption by the govt entities regarding Moses. True Italian style.
А це правда і це доказано і це моє життя моє серце моє життя моє
😅 because it was in Italy they decided to use Roman technology 😅😅😅
А тепер зробіть висновки..
А це правда..
Як ви не можете зрозуміти..що ви робите проти себе в інтернеті а не проти мене.
А це правда
Я не буду виставляти чужі відео, які гадять нам..
What is Jakarta doing? 😝
Можливо я щось не так зробив..але я кохаю тебе мій Гамдан Аль Мактум
Досить красти в мене в інтернеті
Congrats China for the sponges Cities❤👍👍
Це стосується всіх країн світу в інтернеті
Very PERTINENT TOPIC. There's too many PEOPLE who hate change and will stop these preventive measures. Like our High-Speed Rail lines and stations in out/their neighborhoods. It's purpose is to have more of the traveling/commuting populations to take mass transits so there'll be less fossil fuels being burned and less traffic jams in our highways and roads. I mistakenly was opposed several years ago being concerned about it ruining our neighborhoods but NOW I'm ON BOARD with this High-Speed Rail especially seeing this video.
Ви зрозуміли мене?? , що проти нас з коханим Гамданом Аль Мактум ніхто не буде красти під себе в мене в інтернеті..
Я вам не раз казала що проти нас ніхто не розлучить нас..
А це...правду за наклеп в інших країнах світу Європи і Америки і України і Східний фронт ви будете платити мені за все в тройному тарифі зрозуміло всім гадам в інтернеті??
Ви самі себе знищуть
According to the 'googulator', Venice Italy receives a paltry 30 inches of rain on average per year. Miami meanwhile gets over 60 inches. Many of the U.S. Gulf coast cities receive much more than Venice's annual total. Oh well ... engineers have their work cut out for them everyday on every project. Thanks for your great channel!
Hi James, flooding in Venice comes from the sea high tide, not from rain.
Be An Engineer.
If sea levels are going to rise by 1 foot by 2050 what bank in their right mind would put a 30-year mortgage on oceanfront properties? ... and how would you even be able to get insurance on that property?
...sea levels 'could' rise by 1.35 meters (4.43ft), (53 inches) by 2100... MASSIVE projects would be underway 10,000 times what we see now for a 1-foot rise never mind 2 1/2 feet by 2070 and 4 1/2 feet by 2100.
Я вам не раз казала що проти мене ніхто не буде красти під себе в мене .