Witgoor: Pinken Quarry

Description

This route starts at the church of Witgoor. It takes the walker along the Pinken Quarry to the Dessel-Schoten Canal.

In 2005, Sibelco started a new sand quarry, De Pinken, located on the Desselse side of the Bocholt-Herentals Canal, at the height of Locks IV and V. White sand will be extracted here for twenty years.

Then one continues through the forest and fields to the Collateur or "De Gracht". The Gracht, also known as the Great Gracht or the Collateur of Arendonk, is a small canal connecting two Kempen canals. It was constructed for the drainage and irrigation of marshy lands with lime-rich water from the canals to make them more fertile. However, due to a lack of water supply in the canals, the project was not successful.

Happy hiking,
Eddy, Rita, and Prinske

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