Caption

Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, flood protection on the River Lippe. Groundwater from the foreland is channelled into the Lippe via three spillways and then via the newly designed Gecksbach stream. Flood protection in the Haltern-Lippramsdorf-Marl area (HaLiMa) by relocating the dyke and thus extending the floodplain

Date

May 02, 2022

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK26C77_167

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

97.7Mb (6.8Mb) / 15.9in x 23.8in / 4772 x 7154 (300dpi)

Keywords

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