Nordre Follo

Nordre Follo Municipality Nordre Follo kommune Northern Follo
Municipality
View of Ski from the railway station park. Photo: Jacob Bolin Lund
Coat of arms
Akershus within Norway
Nordre Follo within Akershus
Coordinates: 59°45′00″N 10°52′00″E
Country	Norway
County	Akershus
District	Follo
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-3207[3]
Data from Statistics Norway

Nordre Follo is a municipality in Akershus county. Norway. Nordre Follo was established on 1 January 2020 by the merging of Ski and Oppegård municipalities.[4][5]

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[6] heavy metals and the pH is low. The magnitude of the problem has been known since 2006.[6] In 2022, the government started its case-work thru Environment Agency and Radiation Protection Authority.

Notable people

See also: Oppegård § Notable_people

See also: Ski,_Norway § Notable_people

References

1. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
2. "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
3. Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2024-01-09). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon.
4. "Endringer i kommunestrukturen". Stortinget (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 25 September 2017.(Norwegian)
5. "Oppegård og Ski skal hete Nordre Follo kommune" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 4 November 2020.
6. 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