According to the Care and Health Agency, further research is not necessary for the time being, but the municipal council in Kortemark sees it differently. The municipality will now conduct an extensive investigation itself. “We have set up a perimeter, but less than 1 kilometer,” environmental councilor Lynn Vermote said at the city council. “That is too broad to make the link with Silvamo as the cause. In concrete terms, we are having the groundwater examined by people who live around the dump in Staatsbaan, Hoogledestraat and Amersveldestraat.”