Roeselare exchanged land with a farmer for the construction and he can also pump water here during drought. A volume of 3,500 cubic meters always remains available in the basin.
The money, 100,000 euros, comes from the province that manages the waterways. There are now 64 of those areas in our province. Bart Naeyaert, Commissioner for Water Policy: “It often takes a while before you have received all the permits and acquired all the land to do those things. But when I look now
to the past flooding, then those 64 controlled flood areas have done very useful work. Without those investments in the past, we would have had a completely different story in West Flanders.”