It has rained violently in a large part of Noord-Holland, Sunday night. Buienrader reports a precipitation sum of 26 mm in the day after Saturday 4 pm. Apparently the sewer at the Oosteinde could not handle that.
Hisse Brouwer was called at half past four in the morning by the German tenants of one of the two houses he has there.
,, They were really in panic. The water came into the house with shit and toilet paper from the shower drain. It was one filthy gang, a drama. We pushed a towel in it to stop. The fire brigade could not do anything, the municipality could not be reached. I called the sewer cleaning service, they were there at six o’clock, half past six, but there was nothing to be unclogged because they could not find anything. Cost me 500 euros. They came from the municipality later. I understood that a sewer pumpingal had been plotted and that someone else was running at half speed. “
The former bungalow park De Kogge. Credit Cyclomedia.
Brouwer spent half a day cleaning the cottage. The affected German group, which was in West Friesland to kit the Whitsun weekend, went home on Sunday morning. “I bought them up, gave them back more than half the rent.” The other house, which also contained Germans, was less bothered.
Opposite his houses, on the other side of a ditch, Carola Korsse and her girlfriend Jolanda also had to deal with flooding, although that was still fairly clear water. For a year they have been living in one of the seventeen homes in the former Park De Kogge 1.
A neighbor helps Carola and Jolanda to get the water out of the house. credit delivered
When she wanted to go to the toilet early on Sunday morning, around six o’clock, she looked with her feet to her slippers, to find out that they drove further down the bedroom.
Sewater had also flowed into the house with them via the shower drain. The water was in the bedroom, corridor and meter cupboard up to ten centimeters high. ,, Fortunately, the living room is slightly higher, which remained largely dry. We just have everything new, laminate, skirting boards, we had just paid 3,000 euros for. “
The water came to 10 centimeters high in some places.
As soon as Carola realized what was going on, she asked for help via the WhatsApp group of the neighborhood. ,, In addition to us, they also suffered from it. A well was opened by the pressure in front of our house. The water in the ditch was also very high. ”
Local residents came quickly, including with a pump. Buren helped to slide the water out.
As soon as Carola realized what was going on, she asked for help via the WhatsApp group of the neighborhood. Credit Marcel Rob
The men of the municipality of Medemblik, who arrived after the emergency number had been called, also told her that the cause was that the sewer pumpingal ‘could not run at full speed’. ,, We live here lower than Het Oosteinde, so if the sewer there cannot handle the water, it is drama here. And we are at the end, then you are the Sjaak. “
Spokesperson Jorrit Voet of the Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier, which is responsible for three hundred sewerage pumping stations, reports on Sunday afternoon that their data shows that all sewerage grounds in this neighborhood have run at full speed. ,, They have functioned as it should. When the water comes to a certain height, it turns on and as long as it is higher it will continue to turn. ”
As a precaution, the drain was closed with a towel. Credit photo Marcel Rob
What the cause can be is difficult to indicate, says Voet.
,, It can be in the municipal sewer, something may have been created wrong on the site or there may be so many cases locally that it exceeds the standard. Then nobody can do anything about it. But I can’t find that, I can only see if the sewer pumping station has turned well, or it has taken away what it had to drain. And that has met the standard. “
The dryer makes overtime at Carola and Jolanda. Credit photo Marcel Rob
Carola has no idea ‘who tells the truth’. “But we’ll find out that.”
On Sunday afternoon, a device will play at their home that blows warm air. ,, It makes a lot of noise and you will not get the moisture that is under the laminate. But it is now drier. The skirting boards have also released. Let’s hope that the insurance covers the costs, but they are only available on Tuesday. “
Hisse Brouwer raises his questions about the explanation of the Water Board. ,, On Sunday morning I took a picture of a sewer well on the Oosteinde, where the water almost stood to the lid. And it didn’t flow. “
The well in the Oosteinde. “The water didn’t flow here on Sunday morning.” Credit Hisse Brouwer