Huge salt dam at IJmuiden lock complex not working properly

The enormous salt dam in the IJmuiden lock complex is not working properly. The dam was intended to hold back salty seawater in the North Sea Canal and then pump it back to the sea. But now it appears that the pumps are not sucking in enough water, which means they are at risk of breaking down. "Unfortunately, this effect was not taken into account," says Jan Rienstra of Rijkswaterstaat at NH. "The preliminary investigations mainly focused on wh…