Travel to Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal in Lemmer, Netherlands

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The D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station is a pumping station in the Netherlands, and the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world. On October 7, 1920 Queen Wilhelmina opened the pumping station. It was built to pump excess water out of Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands. In 1967, after running on coal for 47 years, the boilers were converted to run on heavy fuel oil. It has a pumping capacity of 4,000 m³/min. The pumping station is currently used to supplement the existing pumping capacity of the J.L.

Sailing pictures in Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal

Zoom @Douwe Brouwer

Shot with a Canon EOS 1000D. Exposure: 1/320, Aperture: 8.0, Focal Length: 200.0, ISO: 100