Beeckfliess

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Beeckfliess
The Beeck
Beeckfließ.JPG
Data
Water code EN : 28288
location District of Heinsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
River system Rhine
Drain over Wurm  → Rur  → Maas  → Hollands Diep  → North Sea
River basin district Meuse
source Former Carl Alexander mine in Baesweiler
50 ° 54 ′ 42 ″  N , 6 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  E
Source height 122  m above sea level NHN
muzzle below Honsdorf in the worm coordinates: 51 ° 0 '26 "  N , 6 ° 10' 33"  E 51 ° 0 '26 "  N , 6 ° 10' 33"  E
Mouth height 53  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 69 m
Bottom slope 5.2 ‰
length 13.3 km
Catchment area 57.575 km²
The Beeck River between Beeck and Leiffarth

The Beeck River between Beeck and Leiffarth

The Beeckfließ , which gave the place Beeck its name, is a formerly natural body of water that the Wurm flows into in the Heinsberg district .

description

With the start of mining in the Aachen Revier , the formerly natural body of water, which was fed from a water-bearing depression (see 50 ° 54'08.4 "N 6 ° 08'59.8" E), was used as an open pit and service water channel for the Carl Alexander mine in Baesweiler expanded. It flows through the villages of Floverich , Apweiler , Beeck, Leiffarth and Honsdorf and flows into the Wurm after 13.3 km below Honsdorf .

Before Beeck, the river flows through the flood retention basins I and II to connect with the Gereonsweiler river below them . Behind Beeck, the water from the Immendorfer Fließ flows in.

After the colliery was closed in 1975, the swamp from hard coal mining was stopped in 1994 . Since that time, the upper course of the Beeckfließ from the colliery site in Baesweiler to the confluence with the Gereonsweiler Fliess, which is permanently flowing, has no continuous water flow.

Below the confluence with the Gereonsweiler Fließ up to the confluence with the Wurm, the Beeckfliess is critically polluted ( quality class II-III ). The Gereonsweiler Fließ, which begins with the discharge of the Setterich sewage treatment plant , is classified in the transition area of ​​quality classes II-III and III along its entire flow path. The efficiency of the Gereonsweiler Fließ is insufficient, given the low level of its own water supply, of the water, which is technically developed in large areas with turf stones and a paved bed and, above all, barely shaded, to reduce the increased organic residual pollution from the municipal sewage treatment plants.

At Haus Honsdorf , the level of the Beeck flow is measured. The mean water level (MW) is 0.25 m, the mean high water level (MHW) 0.98 m. In 2014 the highest water level so far was 1.10 m.

Web links

Commons : Beeckfließ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Measurement based on the German basemap 1: 5000
  2. a b Water directory of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection NRW 2010 (XLS; 4.67 MB) ( Notes )
  3. Water quality report 2001 ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB), Landesumweltamt Nordrhein-Westfalen, page 136