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I read the article, and it says: > During the evening of 8 November 2007, the barrier was closed due to a storm surge for the first time. I also read the arch
by move-on-by 3y ago
I read the article, and it says:
> During the evening of 8 November 2007, the barrier was closed due to a storm surge for the first time.
I also read the archived reference article [0]:
> In the Netherlands, maritime traffic in Rotterdam was halted as the authorities closed the giant Maeslant surge barrier, which guards the entrance to the largest port in Europe, for the first time since its construction in the 1990s
Is the title missing a [2007]? Or is there a current event happening as well that has been misidentified as the first occurrence of this?
* [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071109163913/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086175.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20071109163913/http://news.bbc.c...
- landgenoot 3y agoThis is the first time it closed automatically, because the sea level crossed the "3 meter above average"-threshold. The other closes were "optional", mostly to check how it performed during a real storm.
- move-on-by 3y agoThank you for the explanation. Turns out I stopped reading a little too early: > In order to test the barrier in actual stormy conditions, the water level threshold at which the computer system would start the closing procedure was lowered from 3.0 m over NAP to 2.6 m, for the duration of the 2007 storm season. On 8 November 2007, a storm from the northwest hit the Dutch coast. A storm surge, high enough to start the barrier's closing procedure, occurred.