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Risk distribution is very bad. You have a long dam, of which a single failure at any point means flooding a lot of land. Individual dams along the coastline wil
by radu_floricica 7y ago
Risk distribution is very bad. You have a long dam, of which a single failure at any point means flooding a lot of land. Individual dams along the coastline will, in most cases, only affect the land behind them. Plus it's easier to fix a coastline dam than one in the middle of the sea, possibly during a storm.
- Kim_Bruning 7y agoActually the exact opposite is true. By picking the right places to build your dams and dikes out to see, you can reduce the total length of [all the dams and dikes], thus total risk is reduced. An example is eg. dutch Delta Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works , which (among other things) reduced the total length of sea defenses in Zeeland by 700 km.