Employees of the Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia (GD NRW) will be working in the district of Kleve from March until the end of the year. Soil surveys will be carried out in the municipalities of Rees, Geldern and the pilgrimage town of Kevelaer. The regional surveys are used for a general inventory of the soil and subsoil. The results are published in official maps. They are important documents for many tasks, for example in agriculture and forestry (soil use, soil improvement, erosion control, selection of timber species), in construction, in planning and land management (regional planning, urban land-use planning, nature conservation), in agricultural engineering and in water management (areas in need of drainage and irrigation) as well as for scientific research and natural history teaching.
According to the GD NRW, small hand drillings are necessary as part of the mapping work, as well as excavations in some places to take soil samples. The representatives of the GD NRW will take agricultural interests and the current use of the land into consideration as far as possible.
The GD NRW asks you to support the employees on site in their tasks.
Background: The Geological Survey of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state's geoscientific institution. Its activities cover a wide range of geoscientific topics such as geo-risks, geothermal energy, raw materials, groundwater, subsoil, landfills, geotopes and soils. To this end, the GD NRW researches the subsurface and soils, collects geodata and makes it freely available in online services and data portals.
Information on the work on site can be obtained from the staff of the GD NRW.
- For Geldern / pilgrimage town of Kevelaer: Daniel Kaiser, phone: 02151 897-551
- For Rees: Cornelia Verforth, Phone: 02151 897-586
Source: District of Kleve