Together with Gemaal Vissering in Urk, Gemaal Buma in the Noordoostpolder pumps excess water away from the 39,000-strong western part of the Noordoostpolder.
Pumping station Buma was commissioned on 7 January 1941. On 9 September 1942, the Noordoostpolder was drained. The pumping stations pumped about 1,500 million m3 of water out of the polder, of which about 1,000 million m3 by Gemaal Buma. Buma pumping station is named after Mr A. Buma. He devised an (unimplemented) plan to dike and reclaim the Zuiderzee and Waddenzee. He was co-founder of the Zuiderzee Association. This association did that research into the impoldering of the Zuiderzee, the Wadden and the Lauwerszee
