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Flooding in the Netherlands On January 31st 1995 the Rhine was bursting its banks at the point where it enters the Netherlands. There was heavy rain over most of Europe at that particular time this year. Switzerland received three times its January average and the snow off the Alps melted early and quickly. The ground was saturated because of the heavy downpours as and that then once that had drained down it transfers into high water levels and overland flow. Most of the land which surrounds the Rhine consists of polders which are low-lying areas enclosed by protective embankments-these are called dykes. These are man made from sand and clay and they became saturated so they had more chance of collapsing so emergency work had to be carried out to stop them from collapsing. The flood happened because nearly all of the polders were flooding with the extra rainwater, which meant...

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