Provincial Waterways (Environmental Ordinance)

This stock contains provincial waterways as laid down in the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen. Just as for our roads, there is also a conservation and replacement declaration for our waterways. The multi-annual programme management and maintenance only provides for the so-called “regular management and maintenance”, but does not provide room for large-scale dredging or replacement tasks (e.g. bridges/locks) for the waterway infrastructure. The ‘Nota Beheer provincial waterways 2011-2020’ list our targets and bottlenecks for our waterways. We realise the targets within our financial possibilities phased out, by applying the corresponding job requirements in new construction or replacement, balanced against other societal interests. This concerns in particular the height and width of bridges. We use the “Walkways Guidelines” as the starting point.