Vallei en Veluwe Water District

Everything You Need to Know About Your Water Board Tax

The Vallei en Veluwe Water Board ensures strong dikes and an adequate supply of clean water in your area. This allows you to live, work, and relax safely.

To fund this work, you pay a water board tax. Each year, the water board determines how much tax you’ll pay. This can be a fixed amount or an amount based on, for example, the WOZ value of your home.

What does the water board do with your money?

With your water board tax, the water board ensures clean water, an adequate water supply, and strong dikes. This keeps the area a pleasant and safe place to live, work, and relax—now and in the future.

Clean water

Clean water is important for people, animals, and plants. The water board treats wastewater before it is returned to the natural environment. The water board also works with residents and other organizations to ensure good water quality in, for example, ditches, streams, and canals.

Sufficient Water

The water board ensures that there is neither too much nor too little water. Has it been dry for a long time? Then water is retained as much as possible—for example, by raising weirs and shutting down pumping stations. Is it too wet? Then excess water is drained. This maintains a good balance for people and nature.

Strong dikes

Strong dikes protect you from high water. That’s why the water board inspects, maintains, and reinforces the dikes. This ensures they remain safe, now and in the future.

Here’s what the water authority does with your tax money

You pay various types of water authority taxes. The water authority uses that money to carry out various activities.

Wastewater Treatment Fee

The water authority uses the wastewater treatment fee to treat sewage. This is the water that flows into the sewer system from sources such as your shower, toilet, and sink. The water authority also treats wastewater from businesses.

Pollution fee

This fee applies to residents and businesses that discharge wastewater directly into, for example, a ditch, stream, or canal.

Water System Fee

The water system fee enables the water board to ensure a clean and sufficient water supply and to provide protection against flooding. 

The water authority:

• uses pumping stations to maintain the proper water level
• temporarily collects extra water during heavy rain
• removes silt and debris from the bottom of ditches, streams, and canals, allowing water to flow freely
• addresses problems such as blue-green algae
• reinforces dikes and embankments to protect the area from high water
• creates shorelines where plants and animals have more space. This helps keep the water clean and healthy

The service area of the Vallei en Veluwe Water Board

GBLT collects the tax on behalf of the Vallei en Veluwe Water Board in 37 municipalities. You live in the Vallei en Veluwe Water Board’s service area if you live in one of the following municipalities:

Amersfoort, Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Baarn, Barneveld, Brummen, Bunschoten-Spakenburg, De Bilt, Deventer, Ede, Eemnes, Elburg, Epe, Ermelo, Harderwijk, Hattem, Heerde, Leusden, Nijkerk, Nunspeet, Oldebroek, Olst-Wijhe, Putten, Renkum, Renswoude, Rheden, Rhenen, Rozendaal, Scherpenzeel, Soest, Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Veenendaal, Voorst, Wageningen, Woudenberg, Zeist, or Zutphen.

Not all of the municipalities listed are located entirely within the water board’s service area.