Report soil movement or disposal (earthmoving)

If you are going to excavate soil, the soil must be clean. You can check this by having a soil test done. Does the investigation show that the soil is contaminated? Then report this to the municipality.
Do you want to move or remove soil on your property? You must report this to the environment desk.

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Approach

This is how you report excavating and moving or removing soil:

You file the notification with the Environment Counter.
Log in:
- for yourself: with DigiD
- For a company: with eRecognition
In any case, you pass on:
- your name and address
- Where you want to excavate the soil
- how much soil you want to excavate
- How you want to excavate and move or remove the soil
- what kind of soil you want to excavate

Cost

The cost is included in the 2024 dues ordinance

Description

If you are excavating soil on your property, you can:

move on the same property
drain to another place
refund at a later date

Are you going to move or remove soil (earthmoving)? If so, you must report it. Examples of soil are sand, peat, clay and dredge.

Terms

The requirements for reporting earth moving (moving or removing soil) are:

You excavate and move the soil or dispose of the soil as a business.
You excavate and move or dispose of the soil as a private citizen.
The soil you excavate as a private citizen is not garden soil or sand.

Are you going to excavate (remove) soil temporarily? And will you place the soil back in the same place, unprocessed and under the same conditions? Then you do not have to report this.

Do you want to move or remove a very large amount of soil (more than 10,000 m³ of solids)? Or do you want to dig deeper than 2.5 meters? Then apply for an excavation permit from the province. You can find more information at the Omgevingsloket.