| We have pumps to pump out the water that is continually leaking into our polders through the dikes. |
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| Political abuse in Maine invited the Dutch king to confine his activities to dykes and polders and abstain from pronouncing upon mountain ridges. |
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| The population of Helix aspersa belongs to an intensive agricultural zone located in Brittany, in the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. |
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| Much of the western part of the country is polders that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes. |
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| The project to rehabilitate the Prey Nup polders began in 1997 with 3.35 million euros of AFD financing. |
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| The covered wagon departs direction canal Damme and we traverse the parish Oostkerke and we ride straight across the polders. |
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| This territory has been changed by human actions in the same way as Dutch polders. |
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| Extensive canalization and a vast development of polders have been systematically carried out since the early 20th century. |
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| Flanders natural beauty is best found in the polders of the Flemish lowlands. An atmosphere of peace and tranquillity pervades. |
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| It flourishes on the older dunes and barely sticks out over the surrounding polders. |
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| Come and admire the lowlands of the Médoc which share much resemblance with the Dutch polders. |
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| The lower area consists mainly of polders, where the landscape not only lies at a very low elevation but is also very flat in appearance. |
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| Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream. |
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| Though they retained the name, these streams no longer carry water from the Rhine, but are used for draining the surrounding land and polders. |
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| Illustrations thereof are the institutions of the polders and wateringues and, mero particularly, the subjection of non-navigable and non-floatable waters to private water use rights exclusively and not to appropriation. |
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| Numerous channels from the surrounding polders drain into the river, and sluices at Nieuwpoort regulate its depth, both for an adequate outfall and for navigation. |
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| Fens, as exemplified by the polders in the Netherlands and the lowlands in eastern England, are made up of either alluvium or peat and stand too low to be drained effectively, except by continuous pumping. |
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| John Smith thinks we should build polders on the coast, as the people in the Netherlands do. |
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| There are 3500 polders in the Netherlands, so the Dutch clearly enjoyed playing God. |
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| The exceptions are those that deal with the Low Countries, which are inserted into the text, allowing a visualization of the Dutch polders. |
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| Traditional storage solutions, such as drainage pools and inlet polders, are not always practicable. |
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| Some 400 km² of polders will be created in the Saemangeum estuary. |
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| The breakdown of income evolution by group and by activity provides better understanding of the numerous activity changes that took place in the polders. |
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| I feel good, and begin my way to Rotterdam and Amsterdam through polders. |
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| First, the mills drained water in the lower basins and polders. |
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| These areas, known as polders, were respectively the Wieringermeer, the Noordoostpolder, and Flevoland. |
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| The first consists mainly of sand dunes and clayey alluvial soils in the polders. |
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| For the flood polders Regensburg a hydrogeological groundwater model is to be created on this basis a numeric model. |
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| His case studies come from the polders of Pijnacker, in The Netherlands where he studied and the Magdalena River in his native Columbia. |
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| Leeghwater added a considerable amount of land to the republic by converting several large lakes into polders, pumping the water out with windmills. |
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| The surrounding land is flat as it is formed of large polders. |
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| Several parts of the city and the surrounding urban area are polders. |
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| The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating the famous polders. |
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| The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. |
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| Trouve's Polders take the form of microarchitectures that reinvest the unexploited corners of the gallery. |
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| Two teams from the progressive BUPA Junior Sunday League club are heading to Gistel to compete in the Polders Trophy event. |
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| Subsidence is another issue, both from soil compaction on filled land, and also when wetlands are enclosed by levees and drained to create Polders. |
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