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Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 34 (2009) 119–131 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 34 (2009) 119–131 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physics and Chemistry of the Earth journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pce The nation-state and the river: Spaces and times on Dutch rivers, 1795–1814 Cornelis Disco * University of Twente, Science, Technology, Health and Policy Studies, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, Netherlands article info abstract Article history: Nothing indeed demonstrates more forcefully the extent to which Dutch water management corresponds Received 13 November 2007 to the nature and the needs of the Dutch people and their land, and how it has emerged there from in a Received in revised form 17 June 2008 natural fashion than the fact that the revolutionaries of 1795, despite being so intoxicated by their unex- Accepted 27 June 2008 pected victory and sudden power that they overturned everything ... nonetheless refrained from laying Available online 9 July 2008 hands on institutions whose extreme antiquity would in those days have provided more of an excuse to abolish than to preserve them (J.W. Welcker, De Noorder-Lekdijk Bovendams en de doorsteking van den Keywords: Zuider-Lekdijk bij Culemborg 1803–1813. Een bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van den Nederlandschen Rivers Waterstaat geschetst en met onuitgegeven stukken toegelicht (‘s-Gravenhage: 1880), p. 2). State-formation Flood control Ó 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Commons Batavian Republic 1. Introduction The following day, January 16th, the intendant himself came to in- spect the dikes, and was received by the officers of the dike board.1 On the 13th of January, 1811, the officers of the Dike Board of This minor incident, turning on a mistaken presumption by the the Northern Lek Dike beneath the Dam installed themselves in officers of the dike board that they still had discretionary authority their headquarters at Jaarsveld near the middle of their 25 km long over disbanding their own dike army, illustrates both the persis- dike. Melting river ice and high water on the river had called them tence of old attitudes and the new intransigence of the national there – following venerable custom and according to the Dike state during the 18 years of French domination of the Netherlands Board’s precise regulations. Prior to their arrival, they had already between 1795 and 1813. This period in fact established the Neth- mustered their ‘‘dike-army,” composed of at least one able-bodied erlands as a unified nation-state, and for the first time subjected male between the ages of 16 and 60 from every household of the water management and flood control – which had always been a dike-district, including servants and field-hands. The men came local or at best a provincial concern – to central state authority. armed with hoes, shovels, horses and wagons to aid them in shor- It was not an easy transition. There was resistance by local and ing up soggy dikes, to heighten them with clay embankments regional water management authorities who were jealous of their where the floodwaters threatened to overtop them and to stop ancient privileges. To this was added a sincere conviction at all lev- the leaks and seepages that could insidiously flush away a dike’s els that the robust local systems of drainage and flood control core and leave it ripe for collapse. At 1:00 am on January 15th, could only be tampered with at the risk of inviting catastrophe. the officers noted a river stage of 56 3/4 in. below the so-called At the same time, it was apparent to many that there was some- emergency level (i.e. the top of the dike). By 1:00 pm the same thing seriously wrong with the rivers, and that it was getting day the level had dropped to 59 3/4 in. below emergency level, worse. Floods along the river had become ever more frequent in and by midnight to 69 1/4 in. The officers were ready to call it quits the course of the 18th century, and the devastation they brought and send the dike army home when they were apprised of a mis- was ever more complete and increasingly intolerable. sive from the national intendant (requestmeester) for ‘‘bridges On the one hand, this was due to the deterioration of the river- and roads.” They were advised in no uncertain terms that once beds and floodplains which rendered the rivers increasingly unable the dike-army had been mustered it could not be sent home again to drain off floodwaters and ice floes. This deterioration had two without express orders from the national Inspector of the Rivers. main causes. First, the 18th century reconstruction of the split- ting-point of the Rhine just below the German border had changed 1 F.A.R.A. Baron van Ittersum, De Lekdijk Benedendams en de IJsseldam. Geschi- edenis van dit Hoogheemraadschap van af de vroegste tijden, tot in de tweede helft * Tel.: +31 6 49915784. der negentiende eeuw (en voortgezet tot in de 20e eeuw), vol. 3, 1795–1905 (Utrecht: E-mail address: [email protected]. J. van Druten, 1907), p. 93. 1474-7065/$ - see front matter Ó 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.06.038 120 C. Disco / Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 34 (2009) 119–131 flows in the various Dutch distributaries, sometimes with deleteri- to march unhindered into the heart of the Netherlands. The new ous effects.2 Second, increasing population pressure had encouraged ‘‘Batavian” state was heir to the centralism that pervaded both the ‘‘domestication” of portions of the riverbed and the floodplains. France’s absolutist and revolutionary traditions. In the course of This took the form of reclamation of shallows and islands in the ac- the next half-century, the institutions of this centralized state – tual riverbed, the use of the floodplains for agricultural purposes persisting past the French occupation itself – increasingly chal- (including the building of low ‘‘summer dikes” and the planting of lenged the old provincial and local hegemony over the rivers. trees), strangling the river in a plethora of groynes intended to abet Under the Republic, water management was locally organized: reclamation and to protect mainline levees, and finally the construc- drainage and flood control was managed by several thousand tion of brick factories and other buildings on the floodplains. All water boards. These had a tradition of fierce independence, having these practices impeded flows of water and ice. During high waters become accountable to their respective Provincial Estates only in the winter, ice floes could easily snag on the many obstacles in the since the 1730s. In the course of the 18th century, a number of floodplains, leading to the formation of ice dams, extremely high enlightened spirits began to argue that this fragmented water water and dike breaches.3 management made it impossible to deal with a number of pressing But in addition to the increased likelihood of flooding due to the problems. Chief among these was the chronic flooding of the lands deteriorating hydraulic efficiency of the rivers, the amount of dam- along the large rivers that coursed through the country: the Rhine age wrought by a typical winter flood had also increased over time. and its distributaries, the Meuse and the Scheldt.5 A special con- This was due in the first place simply to the increased population cern, especially for the inhabitants of the wealthy maritime province and investments in land and property in the communities lining of Holland, was the questionable state of the river dikes (levees) the river. There was simply more to lose. But increased costs of along the north shore of the Lek River. Breaches in these dikes would flooding were also the result of secular processes of oxidation not only affect the immediate riparian populations but also those at and soil subsidence due to increasingly effective drainage and a great distance from the river. The very heart of the country would the incorporation of the lowest lying parcels into the agrarian pol- be flooded, and unimaginable suffering and economic devastation der system.4 This reduction of the level of the lands behind the river would ensue. The diagnosis made by the leading lights of the day dikes was aggravated by a complementary rise in the level of espe- was clear enough: the dikes – especially those along the northern cially the floodplains due to silt deposits from the river. The two pro- shore of the Lek – had to be improved, and the rivers and their bed- cesses in tandem produced a secular increase in the difference dings had to be re-engineered to enable them to carry off the up- between polder levels and the levels of the rivers at flood stages. stream floodwaters and ice floes before they could form ice dams.6 For example, the difference in the level between the Lek in flood at The problem, however, was how to coordinate this as a national pro- Schoonhoven and the lowest lying part of Holland near Rotterdam ject given the vested interests of local and provincial elites who – amounted to nearly 20 meters by 1800. rather understandably – were interested above all in their own In any case there were a few voices, chiefly in the newly victo- safety and political autonomy. rious Patriot camp, that ascribed the recurrent winter floods to the The quandary faced by the new centralized state, first under pa- lack of a strong central authority able to prevent the spoiling of the triot and French rule and after 1814 under the House of Orange, flood plains by riparian farmers and landowners who put their pri- was how to frame a national level of water policy and water con- vate interests before the common good.
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