Nordre Follo

Nordre Follo kommune
Nordre Follo kommune
Municipality
	Nordre Follo kommune
	Coat of arms Viken within ; Norway
	Nordre Follo within Viken
	Coordinates: 59°45′00″N 10°52′00″E
Country	Norway
County	Viken
District	Osloregionen
Administrative centre	Ski
Government
• Mayor	Hanne Opdan (Labor Party)
Demonym	Folloværing[1]
Official language [2]
• Norwegian form	Neutral
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3020
	Data from Statistics Norway

Nordre Follo is a municipality in the Oslo region in Viken county. Norway. The area was part of Akershus County from the Middle Ages to 2020. Nordre Follo was established on 1 January 2020 by the merging of Ski and Oppegård municipalities.[3][4]

Environment

Contaminants from thousands of truckloads of slate (that were dumped on two properties that were not prepared as waste sites), are constantly leaking into stream Snipetjernsbekken, which flows into Lake Gjersjøen—the fresh water source for around 49,500 people in Oppegård and the municipality Ås; the stream has [a high concentration, or] much[5] heavy metals and the pH is low. The magnitude of the problem has been known since 2006.[5] In 2022, the government started its case-work thru Environment Agency and Radiation Protection Authority.

Notable people

References

"Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
"Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
"Endringer i kommunestrukturen". Stortinget (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 25 September 2017.(Norwegian)
"Oppegård og Ski skal hete Nordre Follo kommune" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 4 November 2020.
https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/skifer-med-metaller-og-uran-dumpet-pa-taraldrud_-forurenser-bekk-som-renner-ut-i-drikkevann-1.16079636 [ Slate was dumped for 15 years: – One of Norway's most dangerous waste sites]. NRK.no. Retrieved 2022-10-26

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[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[Endringer_i_kommunestrukturen-3] "Endringer i kommunestrukturen". Stortinget (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 25 September 2017.(Norwegian)

[4] "Oppegård og Ski skal hete Nordre Follo kommune" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 4 November 2020.

[NoTimeFrame-5] ttps://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/skifer-med-metaller-og-uran-dumpet-pa-taraldrud_-forurenser-bekk-som-renner-ut-i-drikkevann-1.16079636 [ Slate was dumped for 15 years: – One of Norway's most dangerous waste sites]. NRK.no. Retrieved 2022-10-26