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== Drainage == [[File:KinderdijkMolens01.jpg|thumb|(Pump) mill on a dyke at the Overwaard Polder near [[Kinderdijk]]]] Because a ''koog'' often lies below the level of the adjacent sea or river, it has to be continually drained. This is carried out with the aid of [[soakaway]]s, [[sluice]]s, [[pumping station]]s and [[water pump]]s.<ref name="Loki">Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ortwin Pelc: ''Schleswig-Holstein Lexikon''. Wachholtz, Neumunster, 2006, Lemma Koog.</ref> Today the pumps are powered by engines, in pre-industrial times and sometimes even into the period of intense industrialisation, they were driven by [[wind power]] ([[wind pump]]s). The groups of [[wind mill]]s on the dykes of the [[Rhine]] delta - a symbol of the Netherlands - are old water pumps.
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