Many Dutch growers are in favor of having a particular valve installed in their reservoir to make room for new rain in the event of extreme rainfall , as it turned out during the Rainlevelr Event organized by the Delfland Water Board on 19th of November . At the same prison term , not all growers are cognizant of the project , and growers would like to see that the installation of a drain valve in existing reservoirs would be possible shortly . A well - attended eventView the exposure report here .
Many hand were raised when ask whether growers were present . With the voice of newsreader Noraly Beyer and images of a glut De Lier ( Westland ) in September 1998 , the importance of water system restraint became immediately apparent in the World Horti Center . Tomato grower Jack Groenewegen could effortlessly reminisce about hastily putting his crop on boxwood to save what could be saved . The floods were good for the solidarity in the sector and beautiful stories afterwards , yet everyone in the residence hall correspond that a repetition of 1998 should be prevented , especially after a lightheaded translation after a heavy rainfall in May this year .
The introductory picture show was close watch by the vast majority of the speakers in the front row and the rest of the attendant . At the invitation of the Delfland Water Board , a remarkable number of growers from Westland , Oostland and even from further aside , but also provider , advisers , insurer , governments and interest groups gathered to raise awareness of the Rainlevelr project and , above all , to share cognition and experiences . The Water Board send for on cultivator in the labor to place a special valve in their source so as to make room for unexampled rainwater in the effect of uttermost rainfall . By the end of this yr , the system should be in operation at some twenty companionship .
Jack Groenewegen took the manse back to 1998 when he had to essay and save his crop by putting it on crates .
discharge up the require capacity with an increasing act of growersThe event consisted of three rounds around the themes of ' implosion therapy ' , ' Drought ' and ' measure ' . During the first round , Hugo Vreugdenhil , account handler for the Rainlevelr undertaking , gave an presentation to the system . He point out that ultimately the instalment of special valves , as far as the Water Board is concerned , would as quickly as possible be the received procedure for fresh reservoir and when supplant the reservoir lining . This was followed by a question from the go to growers in the hall : why the survive man-made lake are for now excluded from the projection . At the moment this is the case , because in the initial phase of the project the Water Board does not want to start the risk of failing to establish such a valve in an existing reservoir .
Soon it was about the next step such as using underground body of water memory board to survive geological period of drought . Jacco Vooijs of LTO Glaskracht Nederland uncover that this matter is addressed in the project COASTAR . Wilko Wisse from tomato grower Lans , one of the first with a special valve , warn against take all kinds of follow - up step too tight . He emphasise that first more growers should join the projection in its present form . That means that the capacity that has to be freed up in the ladder - up to big rain could be better distributed among the agriculturist . The fact that the Water Board can now take in the degree of woof of the reservoirs is , according to Wilko , of import , because these data are more accurate than the data from the piddle level management . So there is less reason for panic and growers no longer ( afterwards ) have to release water needlessly .
Jaap Bij de Vaate yield an unveiling to the theme ' Drought ' and exhibit how growers of dissimilar crops with different water requirement can help each other .
3500 m3 and 2022Besides water system also aid was pay to drouth , inevitable after last summer . Drought that will most likely happen more oftentimes . Growers and neighbors with different water needs such as tomato and orchid growers could aid each other in these menses , Jaap Bij de Vaate from Delphy prove this in his introduction to the second theme on the basis of a few public figure . Ewald de Koning of Ter Laak Orchids was given the opportunity to verbalize about his experiences with undercover piss computer memory , while Wim Voogt from Wageningen University , in respect of salinisation , tell apart growers in the hall that many crops could likely withstand more sodium than first thought . In addition to the number 3,500 ( the intermediate number of cubic meters of reservoir need per hectare ) , also the year 2022 was mention repeatedly . From 2022 on , brine water may no longer be eject as a effect of inverse osmosis , which mean that cultivator will have to take care even more for other water origin than is presently the compositor’s case . Many questions from growers in the entrance hall . photograph : Frank van de Burg of Solyco mouth . After a break to catch up on the first two rounds , during the third daily round it was about measures . Among other things , the ill-famed Mary Leontyne Price tag was discuss , for exercise with regard to the shipping of water from the built surround . In the same make environment , the planting of ceiling could also contribute to the dosed drainage of rainwater .
Corné Zwinkels after the conclusion of the upshot in conversation with chairwoman Maurice Wubben
At the end of all three sessions , Saskia Jouwersma of the Water Board used the opportunity to thank all those present and , above all , to call on everyone to bring to the further ontogeny of the Rainlevelr task . In doing so , she knew from experience that just shift a insurance is not gentle , but that many forward-looking ideas can be tested under the term ' pilot ' . Also that existing idea , such as channelise weewee from existing reservoirs , should definitely be reexamine and recalculate on the recommendation from the attendants .
There were many growers present from both vegetable cultivation and floriculture : Paul Sonneveld ( Passion for lily ) , Paul Zwinkels ( TOVs Nursery P. and R. Zwinkels ) , Leon Schenkeveld ( Schenkeveld Tomatoes ) and John van Mil ( Looye Growers ) .
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