Maas River

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Road works
Business
Infrastructure agency increasingly facing angry locals, threats over road works detours
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Decorated Roman oil lamp discovered by archeologists in Cuijk, Noord-Brabant.
BusinessScience
Archaeologists discover decorated Roman oil lamp in Cuijk
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Chemours factory in Dordrecht, 21 July 2023
HealthNature
High PFAS concentrations found at 170 locations in the Netherlands
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Crime
Three found guilty in Roermond speedboat crash that left one dead, one paralyzed
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Vegetation along the Maas river in Roermond
BusinessNature
Water company stops extracting drinking water from Maas river over pesticides
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De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam
BusinessSports
Rotterdam agrees to revised Feyenoord City plans with up to 9,500 new homes
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Two young German men, 21 and 22, drowned in the Maas river in Venlo on 2 June 2024. The police are searching for their bodies
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Young German men drowned after phone falls into Maas River; Search continues today
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Archive photo of a police boat on the Maas River in Maastricht. May 2014
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Search for two missing people in Maas river near Venlo
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Flooding in the area of Etenaken, Limburg, after a short, intense period of rainfall. 18 May 2024
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Flooding forces the evacuation of Limburg campsites packed with holiday travelers
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Cigarette butts picked up on Dutch beaches during the Boskalis Beach Cleanup Tour, August 2023
PoliticsTechNature
About 40,000 people help pick up litter on National Cleanup Day
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Litter left on the street next to a trash can near the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. 18 June 2023
Politics
Tens of thousands of volunteers clean up litter on National Clean-up Day
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Workers complete an emergency dam at Bosscherveld in Maastricht. 8 January 2024
Nature
Ten Maastricht residents allowed to return to houseboats following dam breach evacuation
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Sandbags placed around doors in Leerdam, Utrecht to prevent flooding from the Linge River. 5 January 2024
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Rhine River reaches fourth high water peak on Sunday
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The Dutch military used Chinook helicopters to help plug a dam in Maastricht. 6 January 2024
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Chinooks placed 228,000 kilograms of rubble to plug Maastricht dam; More set for Sunday
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High water levels led to some flooded areas in Lathum, Gelderland, which is bordered by the IJssel River. 6 January 2024
TechNature
High water peak on the Rhine River is not as bad as predicted
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A Dutch military Chinook helicopter lowers a net filled with rubble to help cut off a dam breach in Maastricht. 6 January 2024
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Video: Chinooks begin dropping heavy rock bundles at Maastricht broken dam
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Infrastructure workers at the Maas River weir in Roermond amid high water levels. 4 January 2024
TechNature
Highest Maas River water level has passed Maastricht; Noord-Brabant opens flood defenses
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The Schaatsmolentocht, an ice skating event by the windmills in Alblasserwaard, Zuid-Holland, requiring at least 13 cm of ice. 12 Feb. 2012
Nature
Ice skating possible on frozen meadows next week, but lakes unlikely to freeze
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Thirty houseboats were evacuated due to a breach in a Maastricht dike. 3 January 2024
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Houseboat breaks loose at partly washed away Maastricht dam
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Thirty houseboats were evacuated due to a breach in a Maastricht dike. 3 January 2024
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Breached dam near Maastricht threatens 30 houseboats; Homes evacuated
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Storm clouds appear above the IJssel River in Deventer, where high water levels have persisted. 2 January 2024
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Emergency water pumps & stations reactivated in the Netherlands ahead of storm
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Water filled a floodplain along the Waal River in Varik, Gelderland. 26 December 2023
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Water levels in major rivers will rise again in early January
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Storm clouds over Maastricht
TechNature
Maas river deteriorating due to harmful substances, climate change: water companies
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Dutch ambulance helicopter
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Diving teams looking for two people in the Maas River after boat capsized, only one person survived