After Fifty Years, This City Has a River in Its Center Again

The meters go way into the red when it gets hot in Helmond in the summer. The petrified city center suffers from too much heat stress. And so the municipal government wants to bring back the Stadse Aa river. It was filled in in the seventies, but now the flowing water is again urgently needed to cool the city. In June, the municipality will also open a new park by the river. The Stadse Aa has been above ground for a while at Helmond Castle, but …