Time to lock the lock. This is slightly different at the Mijndense Sluis than at traditional locks, where a new container of water is brought in every time. “We shake the water and lower it again, turn on the pump and pump it back again.” So it is always the same water that is used. And that is not without reason. “The Vecht has been quite polluted, and you want that water not have in the Loosdrechtse Plassen.”
After weeks of rain, lock keeper Leo expects crowds again: ‘Recreational shipping lives by the sun’
