German mayor angry: cause of flooding lies with the Netherlands | Inland

In Wassenberg, not far from Roermond, seven hundred people were evacuated on Friday evening after a dike of the Roer gave way and the river overflowed.

Mayor Marcel Maurer van Wassenberg said on Friday evening that the dam had broken because the weirs in the Roer near Roermond were closed. That would increase the pressure on the dykes in Germany. He wanted the Dutch authorities to open the floodgates again.

That will not happen. The Limburg Water Board has made calculations that show that one has nothing to do with the other. In Roermond, the lock in the mouth of the Roer on the Maas is invariably closed during high water to prevent the high Maas from flowing into the Roer and flooding the entire city center. At the same time, the water is diverted via a branch of the Roer, the Hambeek. The water enters the Maas via this Hambeek. This means that there is a normal flow that has no influence on the German part of the Roer, according to the water board.

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