Fürth garbage smoldering plant
The Fürth waste smoldering incineration plant ( SBA for short ), completed in 1997, was a 125 million euro pilot project by the Siemens company for smoldering waste and producing electrical energy. Fiercely controversial in public because of highly toxic smoldering gases , several incidents brought the end to the plant after just a few weeks. As a result, the residual waste from Fürth has been brought to the Nuremberg waste incineration facility since the garbage dump was closed .
history
Construction and civil protest
In 1985, Siemens KWU offered Fürth a free test facility for smoldering waste. In 1990 the costs were put at 32 million German marks, by 1995 they had grown to 66 million DM. After approval by the government of Middle Franconia, construction of the SBA began in September 1994. After a failed referendum (see section: Protest), the plant was privatized before it was commissioned and sold to the electricity company subsidiary UTM GmbH. The aim was to pick up more garbage from Erlangen.
The Bund Naturschutz held the SBA together with the “ Müll und Umwelt e. V. Fürth ”opposed an alternative waste concept. Broad support came from large sections of the population; Several demonstrations took place and in 1993 27,000 objections were made to the SBA. The alternative waste concept was then presented in a nine-day hearing in the Nuremberg exhibition center. After construction began, five people complained against the decision. When privatization was discussed during the construction phase in 1995, a referendum was launched in Fürth for the first time, which ultimately failed with just under 49% and 51%.
fail
After commissioning in 1997, numerous problems such as material jams, software failures and carbonization gas release after the bypass was opened occurred. The newly founded campaign “Citizens watch the smoldering furnace” documented this. In 1998, improvements were made again, but during the test run in August 1998 the decisive accident occurred when a metal mesh in the garbage led to a material jam and destroyed a smoldering drum seal, whereupon toxic smoldering gas escaped and 73 people were injured.
costs
During the planning and construction phase, the costs got completely out of hand. Originally the construction costs were set at around 16 million euros, but towards the end of the project the costs were around 125 million euros. The partners in the Rangau waste disposal association (ZAR) had to agree to a risk sharing right during the construction phase. When the SBA finally went out of operation, the city had to pay 8.8 million marks to Siemens, and the district , which was then part of the waste disposal association , had to raise another 5 million marks . In 1999, the building contractor Günther Karl bought the plant from Siemens. As only became known in early 2009, he had already sold the closed SBA on March 13, 2008 to Max Aicher GmbH, Freilassing.
demolition
After 20 years of vacancy, demolition work began in August 2018 and was completed in April 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the waste incineration plant in Nuremberg
- ↑ "The better waste concept," Waltraud Galaske: 20 years waste and environmental Fuerth , October 2008 - online here available
- ↑ Fürther Nachrichten: The day on which the poison cloud moved over Fürth , article from August 28, 2008, available online
- ↑ FürthWiki: Garbage Schwellbrennanlage, accessed online on September 28, 2018 | 11:57 p.m. - available online
- ↑ Fürther Nachrichten: Ex-garbage furnace changed owner , article dated February 2, 2009, available online
- ↑ Birgit Heidingsfelder: Smoldering plant: Only one stair tower is still standing. In: Fürther Nachrichten of March 30, 2019 (print edition)
Web links
- Rubbish swell incinerator Fürth - FürthWiki
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 56 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 51.6 ″ E