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Kleine Dommel
The Kleine Dommel (small Dommel) or Rul is a brook in the Campine and Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
The Kleine Dommel was originally a brook, meaning that it could be forded in many places. It still has three water mills. These have some renown because they were pictured by the early Vincent van Gogh, who lived in the area. In the twentieth century measures were taken to increase the discharge of the Kleine Dommel.
The 1995 near disaster in the Dutch river delta showed the dangers of quick drainage upstream. Furthermore, climate change led to an increased number of days with extreme precipitation (>30 mm a day). In winter, when the groundwater is already close to the surface, and ditches and pounds are full, significant rains lead to an almost immediate discharge to lower areas. This is why water storage facilities were planned (and created) in many places in the Netherlands.
The water boards play a key role in these projects. For the Kleine Dommel, the responsible water board is Waterschap de Dommel. It started preparations for the temporary water storage areas in 2008. Later the plans were combined with environmental objectives, e.g. improving the close by natura 2000 reserve, and touristic objectives. In 2014 this led to the overall 'project plan Kleine Dommel Heeze Geldrop'.
This part of the Kleine Dommel runs from Heeze Castle in the south, to the A 67 motorway in the north. It is about 3.5 kilometers long. East of it lies the Strabrechtse Heide. On the eastern bank is also the heavily wooded and very wet nature reserve Goorse Zeggen. Both are part of the natura 2000 reserve Strabrechtse Heide & Beuven. Up to about 1900, this heath land stretched towards Nuenen in the north, and to what is now the reserve the De Groote Peel in the south.
This relatively well preserved part of the Dommel still shows a hydrological process that has mostly disappeared with the destruction of heath in the Netherlands. The hydrological process is that precipitation sinks down on the heath, and comes to the surfaces again in the (Kleine Dommel) valley. This makes the valley extremely wet, and attracts certain species. This explains the attempts to restore this process and the environment in this part of the Kleine Dommel valley.
The Kleine Dommel starts at the confluence of the Groote Aa and Sterkselse Aa near Heeze Castle in Heeze. Originally, this was south of the castle, see the 1662 map. From Heeze Castle, the Kleine Dommel forms the western border of the Herbertusbossen (Herbertus woods) for about 500 m. Next, the Kleine Dommel has farmland on both sides. After about 200 m it crosses the road Strabrechtse Dijk, or 'Strabrecht', named for the hamlet Strabrecht. At the crossing, the long since disappeared watermill Strabrechtse Molen was mentioned in the 14th and 15th century. This part of the Kleine Dommel still has most of its original meanders.
About 300 m north of Strabrecht the Kleine Dommel meets a routing sluice, called verdeelwerk. From the verdeelwerk to the crossing of the Rul road near the hamlet Rul, about a kilometer of the Kleine Dommel was 'normalized' in the 1960s. The result was a new straight and much shorter bed of the Kleine Dommel east of the old bed. It had a deeper bed, and a much higher discharge capacity, resulting in a much slower average speed. About 60 m north of the verdeelwerk, the small drainage canal Rieloop joins this straight section of Kleine Dommel.
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Kleine Dommel
The Kleine Dommel (small Dommel) or Rul is a brook in the Campine and Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
The Kleine Dommel was originally a brook, meaning that it could be forded in many places. It still has three water mills. These have some renown because they were pictured by the early Vincent van Gogh, who lived in the area. In the twentieth century measures were taken to increase the discharge of the Kleine Dommel.
The 1995 near disaster in the Dutch river delta showed the dangers of quick drainage upstream. Furthermore, climate change led to an increased number of days with extreme precipitation (>30 mm a day). In winter, when the groundwater is already close to the surface, and ditches and pounds are full, significant rains lead to an almost immediate discharge to lower areas. This is why water storage facilities were planned (and created) in many places in the Netherlands.
The water boards play a key role in these projects. For the Kleine Dommel, the responsible water board is Waterschap de Dommel. It started preparations for the temporary water storage areas in 2008. Later the plans were combined with environmental objectives, e.g. improving the close by natura 2000 reserve, and touristic objectives. In 2014 this led to the overall 'project plan Kleine Dommel Heeze Geldrop'.
This part of the Kleine Dommel runs from Heeze Castle in the south, to the A 67 motorway in the north. It is about 3.5 kilometers long. East of it lies the Strabrechtse Heide. On the eastern bank is also the heavily wooded and very wet nature reserve Goorse Zeggen. Both are part of the natura 2000 reserve Strabrechtse Heide & Beuven. Up to about 1900, this heath land stretched towards Nuenen in the north, and to what is now the reserve the De Groote Peel in the south.
This relatively well preserved part of the Dommel still shows a hydrological process that has mostly disappeared with the destruction of heath in the Netherlands. The hydrological process is that precipitation sinks down on the heath, and comes to the surfaces again in the (Kleine Dommel) valley. This makes the valley extremely wet, and attracts certain species. This explains the attempts to restore this process and the environment in this part of the Kleine Dommel valley.
The Kleine Dommel starts at the confluence of the Groote Aa and Sterkselse Aa near Heeze Castle in Heeze. Originally, this was south of the castle, see the 1662 map. From Heeze Castle, the Kleine Dommel forms the western border of the Herbertusbossen (Herbertus woods) for about 500 m. Next, the Kleine Dommel has farmland on both sides. After about 200 m it crosses the road Strabrechtse Dijk, or 'Strabrecht', named for the hamlet Strabrecht. At the crossing, the long since disappeared watermill Strabrechtse Molen was mentioned in the 14th and 15th century. This part of the Kleine Dommel still has most of its original meanders.
About 300 m north of Strabrecht the Kleine Dommel meets a routing sluice, called verdeelwerk. From the verdeelwerk to the crossing of the Rul road near the hamlet Rul, about a kilometer of the Kleine Dommel was 'normalized' in the 1960s. The result was a new straight and much shorter bed of the Kleine Dommel east of the old bed. It had a deeper bed, and a much higher discharge capacity, resulting in a much slower average speed. About 60 m north of the verdeelwerk, the small drainage canal Rieloop joins this straight section of Kleine Dommel.