Municipalities that want to organize swimming zone should not check water quality themselves
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Municipalities that want to set up a swimming zone in open water on which no ships sail will not have to check the water quality every two weeks. « Flanders will take the living and the organization through the Flemish Environment Agency, so that there is a threshold less, » says Flemish minister of surroundings Jo Brouns (CD&V) on Wednesday The latest news.
Source: Belga
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“The only thing that municipalities want a new swimming zone in a non-stable watercourse (a pond or pee without ships, ed.) Having to do is to ensure that people can safely in and out of the water, « said Minister Brouns. » It costs nothing. If you have a plan and provide people to safely in and out of the water, you can get started. And who knows, we can swim outside until September. «
« In those uncomfortable watercourses, there is often just water until your ankles, » green-party leader Mieke Schauvliege returns. « Swimming in open water is only interesting if it is also possible in the navigable watercourses. » It refers to the coalition agreement, in which the Flemish government pronounces the ambition to allow swimming in open water everywhere, except where it is explicitly forbidden.
Minister Brouns emphasizes that he is still in consultation with the Flemish Minister for Mobility and Public Works Annick De Ridder (N-VA) about admitting swimming in the channels. « And in the previous government, then Minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) said that she was about this in consultation with colleague Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), » Sigh Schauvliege.
