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Water boards are advising against letting children or pets play in streets or other areas that have been flooded by high water levels. The water from rivers, streams, and ditches has not been purified. It can, therefore, be contaminated, according to the municipality of Hoorn, where the Visserseiland street has been under water for days.Hoorn has placed extra big bags on Visserseiland due to Rijkswaterstaat expecting a new high water peak in the Markermeer on Friday or Saturday.
There are concerns over the high water levels in the Netherlands. The Rhine River appears to have reached its peak level at Lobith, where the river flows into the Netherlands. The water level of the Vecht River in Overijssel has reached a record high, reports the Vecht Currents regional water board. At 4:10 a.m. on Thursday, the Rhine water level was 14.52 meters above NAP, the average sea level at the North Sea used for measurements across Europe. The peak will move across the rivers in the Netherlands in the coming days.
The municipality of Deventer is hard at work monitoring the rapidly rising water levels in the IJssel River on Wednesday. Officials fear the water level will eventually rise so high that water will flow into the city center.
The high water is continuing to give many water boards and their employees a particularly busy Boxing Day, especially in the east and south of the country where people are experiencing flooding in various places. Pumping stations have been running at full capacity, water boards are flooding floodplains and storage areas, and sandbags and pumps are in need in various places. There was not yet a real emergency anywhere as of 6 p.m. on Tuesday.