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Finally, an enormous, 700-ton steel "guillotine" floodgate has been constructed on the Hollandsche Ijssel River. The huge gates can be clamped down on eight minutes notice when approaching tidal surges threaten the lowlands around The Hague and Delft, where 3,500,000 Dutchmen live. Expected completion of the entire Delta Plan: 1978.