Every area in the Netherlands is divided into soil quality zones. Those zones are conveniently classified by city/town or area in a so-called “soil quality map. See below, for example, the soil quality map of Amsterdam. Soil quality map of Amsterdam Each zone...
Anyone who has ever appraised or purchased something in a big city will not be unfamiliar; the soil report you get in front of you is 1 big incomprehensible piece of text more than 50 pages long. You want to buy or appraise that property, and you, as a real estate...
On the soil counter website, you should be able to find all kinds of useful information about the condition of the soil. You can see how this works (or ownership how this used to work) in this century-old video. Anyway. The question is: How useful is the soil counter...
If the soil report states that remediation must take place, a BUS notification has been required since 2007. After that, there should have been remediation. But to know for sure if this has occurred, a remediation evaluation must have taken place. Where it often goes...
There may still be an oil tank in your or your neighbor’s yard. We call these tanks “hbo tanks. HBO stands for “home heating oil. These tanks pose a major threat to soil quality on your plot and surrounding plots. Old tanks can leak and oil is a...
Pfas is a collective term for a group of chemicals that are man-made and do not occur in nature. The abbreviation PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. These substances have very useful properties for us as humans. For example, the properties of these...
