Please note that this activity will take place on Tuesday instead of the usual Wednesday!

With the forthcoming elections on 15 March, the Water Boards are in the spotlight.
The board of KIVI Region North-West has the pleasure of inviting you to attend a lecture to be given by regiolid Hans Pluckel, followed by a visit to Spaarndam Pumping Station.

'No future without the past: the water is coming'
Since 1255, the Rijnland Water Board has managed the water between the IJ (now the North Sea Canal) and the Oude Rijn. For many years this involved managing the storage basin level and the area drainage at Spaarndam, Halfweg, Gouda and Katwijk, and since the 1990s also the water level of the surrounding polders.
The Rhineland board is one of the oldest democratically elected bodies: until 2008 a person system and since then a party system, as in the case of municipal councils, provincial councils, the House of Representatives and the European Parliament.
What has been achieved in these more than 750 years? And what needs to happen now in the western Netherlands for residents, businesses and nature? Water and soil are once again guiding spatial choices and area management, says the government!

Information about the speaker
Hans Pluckel - living 4 metres below sea level in the Haarlemmermeerpolder - studied architecture and urban planning at TU Delft.
He worked in various positions at the Ministry of VROM (urban renewal and housing production), the municipality of Haarlemmermeer (growth area), the Association of Dutch Municipalities (Spatial Planning, Traffic and Environment) and was Randstad representative to the EU in Brussels.
From 1990 to 2000, he was a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland (including a motion to investigate Schiphol in the sea) and from 2009 to 2019, a member of the Executive Board of Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland (portfolio Finance, Coast and Innovation).
After his retirement, Hans is, among other things, chairman of the Friends of the Cruquius Pumping Station, board member of the Association for Water History and board member of the Association Regio Water.

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