The Rivierenland Water Board is expecting a fifth high-water wave on the large rivers at the end of this month. The water will not be as high as during the last two peaks, but it will be a high water level again. Seepage in the polders will increase again, and water in basements and crawl spaces will not disappear yet, the board said on Tuesday. Rijkswaterstaat also predicts that the Rhine, Waal, Lek, and IJssel water will rise again from Saturday. The discharge of the Maas will also increase again.
Water in ditches, swimming lakes, and natural lakes within a radius of at least 15 kilometers around the Chemours factory in Dordrecht is heavily contaminated with PFAS. In the entire area, the PFAS concentrations are way above what the RIVM considers safe, in some cases thousands of times above the standard, Zembla reports based on measurements by the Riveierenland Water Board.
The Rivierenland Water Board and the Mekante Diek consortium, a collaboration between Van Oord, Ploegam and Dura Vermeer, are getting ready for the Tiel-Waardenburg dyke reinforcement project.
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