page_title: Oost-Maarland
section_title: Environment
hierarchical_section_title: Oost-Maarland / Environment
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Topografische kaart van gemeente Eijsden-Margraten (2013). Op basis van de GML open geodata van de BRT/Top10NL (basisregistratie Topografie, Kadaster 2011), vrijgegeven door Kadaster onder de Creative Commons BY licentie. Samenstelling en kleurenschema: Jan-Willem van Aalst, met QuantumGIS en Photoshop. Zie ook de Legenda.
context_page_description: Oost-Maarland is a place in the south east of the European country Netherlands. There it is an administrative population centre in the Eijsden-Margraten municipality, which forms part of the Province of Limburg. In fact Oost-Maarland consists of two separate places with a different history. One is the village and former municipality of Oost, whereas the other is an in a distance of a few hundred metres separately to the southeast situated township called Maarland.
  Oost-Maarland is located some 3 km north of Eijsden, the biggest place in the municipality and 7 kilometers south of Maastricht, the provincial capital. In its northeast it borders Rijckholt and in its east and southeast the Sint Geertruid part of the Savelsbos hillside forest, which is part of the "Margraten plateau". In the west it borders the Meuse river, across which marks the border with Belgium, specifically the Liège province of Wallonia.
  Inbetween Maarland and this forest since a few decennia passes the E25 highway. In between Oost and Maarland passes the railroad Liège-Maastricht. The former station on this location however doesn't exist any more.
context_section_description: An environmental problem for Oost is in the fact that the Meuse river water is contaminated considerably in especially upstream Belgium, where not only industries dispose of waste water, but also unpurified sewerages are drained into this river.
  For Maarland there's the problem that the E25 highway that passes nearby brings a lot of noise and air pollution. Moreover, the fact that one or more farms there have specialised in pig breeding results in smell pollution for all of the neighbourhood.
caption: Map Eijsden-Margraten. (Oost-Maarland on the left, near the dark blue water; (best visible after three clicks on map))
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