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Lynn
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Hi Paul,
Great to see you here and lovely to meet you at the workshop yesterday. Flevopark is such a lovely place and sometimes I will forage there. The lake sludge is indeed said to be toxic, by the Gemeente. The land itself, I am unsure spot-by-spot, but that park is certainly within the zone of not so clean land. Here is a link to the Gemeente’s rather helpful bodemkwaliteit map. You will see Flevopark is in Zone 6 (not good). https://maps.amsterdam.nl/bodemkwaliteit/?LANG=en

Zone 6 sweeps all around Amsterdam, and the Vondelpark sits as better quality land, surrounded by Zone 6.

Here is the intro of the linked document about Zone 6:(Dutch then English from Google translate is below). YOu will see quite a vague statement really. Personally, I see some too-big herbs there at times (Flevopark), and I don’t feel the urge to forage much from the place. I took some Elderflower in 2023, that was good, but the urge to forage a lot there is not there for me. So if you do, pick very lightly and not from the same places regularly. And certainly avoid the water’s edge of the big lake. I will look further for you.

De grond in zone 6 bevat gemiddeld stoffen tot boven de Interventiewaarde: de kans is groot dat er sprake
is van sterk verontreinigde grond. Houd hier rekening mee bij het bepalen van ARBO-maatregelen.
In zone 6 is het niet mogelijk om de bodemkwaliteitskaart te gebruiken als grondslag voor een
milieuverklaring bodemkwaliteit, maar is een andere verklaring noodzakelijk (partijkeuring of verkennend
onderzoek). Voorafgaand aan dit onderzoek is het wel toegestaan om een vereenvoudigd vooronderzoek uit
te voeren, mits uit dit onderzoek geen brongerelateerde verontreiniging of verdenking hierop naar voren
komt. In dat geval is een aanvullend vooronderzoek noodzakelijk.
Raadpleeg voor meer informatie het Beleidskader bodem onder de Omgevingswet gemeente Amsterdam.

ENG: The soil in zone 6 contains on average substances above the Intervention Value: there is a good chance that the soil is heavily contaminated. Take this into account when determining ARBO measures.In zone 6 it is not possible to use the soil quality map as a basis for an environmental declaration of soil quality, but another declaration is required (batch inspection or exploratory
investigation). Prior to this investigation it is permitted to carry out a simplified preliminary investigation, provided that this investigation does not reveal any source-related contamination or suspicion thereof. In that case, an additional preliminary investigation is required.
For more information, consult the Soil Policy Framework under the Environmental Act of the municipality of Amsterdam.

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