Pumping Station de Heining

Pumping station de Heining, remarkably enough built ín the dike, is part of the water management of Friesland. The pumping station comes into operation when the water level in the Frisian bosom, the interconnected system of canals and lakes, is too high. The augers can then pump 250 cubic meters of water per minute to the sea and thus form a useful addition to the IJsselmeer pumping stations. De Heining, commissioned in 2018 by Wetterskip Fryslân, is part of a larger plan, of a new way of thinking about water management, an internal 'climate change' you could say. Moving more along with nature and the water instead of fighting against it. That is quite exciting, because we have built dikes for a thousand years to protect ourselves against the violence of the sea. This pumping station is the ideal environment for the meditative underwater world of artist and filmmaker Ewa Doroszenko.