Bathse Spuikanaal en -sluis
The Bathse Spuisluis is one of the “compartmenteringswerken”(compartment works) that as a section of the Delta works was constructed. The Bathse Spuisluis together with the Bathse Spuikanaal took 7 years to construct.
The Bathse Spuisluis was not originally built as a defence against flooding. It is together with the Bathse Spuikanaal a “drainage system” that takes the fresh water out of the Volkerak and the Markiezaatsmeer. Through the working of the drainage system the waters of the Schelde-Rhine canal , the Zoommeer, the Markiezaatsmeer and the Volkerak is refreshed and the foul water removed.
The canal is in total 8 kilometres long and carries 8.5 million cubic metres of water which drain into the Westerschelde. The Bathse Spuikanaal flows ever wider into the Schelde-Rhine canal then to the Oosterschelde and into an overflow sluice at the Westerschelde at Bath. In 1980 the excavations for the overflow sluice were begun in preparation for the building of the canal in 1982.At the end of May 1986 the canal was finished; around September of that year the overflow sluice followed.
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