@kork@gijsje@joysabin The sculpture group "Highwater" (boy in swimming trunks) from 2000 consists of two parts. On the square there is a double life-size aluminum bust of a human figure looking over the quay wall towards an identical statue (almost 4½ m high), but then at full height, at the foot of the dike. Both images indicate with their outstretched hand the highest water level that the quay wall in Zaltbommel can tolerate.
A metal plate with the text:
"The statue and bust of a boy are a work of the visual artist Marcel Smink; with their left hand they both indicate the height of the water level on which the Zaltbommel flood defense is designed: 8.87 m + NAP.
That is also the height of the promenade wall. This wall can be raised by 50 cm at extremely high water levels. "
Some water levels measured at high river discharges are:
1861: 7.61 m + NAP
1926: 7.52 m + NAP
1970: 7.05 m + NAP
1995: 7.43 m + NAP
A metal plate with the text:
"The statue and bust of a boy are a work of the visual artist Marcel Smink; with their left hand they both indicate the height of the water level on which the Zaltbommel flood defense is designed: 8.87 m + NAP.
That is also the height of the promenade wall. This wall can be raised by 50 cm at extremely high water levels. "
Some water levels measured at high river discharges are:
1861: 7.61 m + NAP
1926: 7.52 m + NAP
1970: 7.05 m + NAP
1995: 7.43 m + NAP
Artist
Marcel Smink (Heumen 1957), sculptor