Rotten puddle (Pleiße)

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Rotten puddle
The lazy puddle at Gaulis

The lazy puddle at Gaulis

Data
location Saxony , Germany
River system Elbe
Drain over Pleiße  → Weisse Elster  → Saale  → Elbe  → North Sea
source At the Böhlen-Lippendorf industrial area
51 ° 10 ′ 43 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  E
muzzle At Gaulis in the Pleiße coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 27 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 1 ″  E 51 ° 11 ′ 27 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 1 ″  E

length 2.5 km
Catchment area 13 km²

The Faule Pfütze is a left tributary of the Pleiße about 2.5 kilometers in length near Gaulis south of Böhlen in Saxony .

The course of the brook has changed several times over the past 100 years. It used to be fed from two source tributaries. One of them originated between Lippendorf and Spansdorf, the other west of Trachenau.

When a lignite mine and a briquette factory were opened east of Lippendorf in the 1920s, the former had to be partially piped and laid. It later also took on the cooling water from the Böhlen power station. In its central part, the Lazy Puddle flowed through several ponds. When the water quality deteriorated due to further industrialization near Lippendorf, it was led north past the ponds, which had meanwhile been combined into one. With the Witznitz II opencast mine and the relocation of the Pleiße, the second source inflow disappeared.

The stream used to split on the way from Gaulis to Gauliser Mühle. The right branch flowed directly to the Pleiße, the left one followed the eastern development boundary of Gaulis and ended at Böhlen. Currently the Faule Pfütze flows from the former point of division at the bridge directly north to the Pleiße.

Wastewater from the Böhlen-Lippendorf industrial complex is still discharged into the Pleiße via the lazy puddle, for example cooling water from the Lippendorf power plant and wastewater from the BSL Olefinverbund GmbH, Böhlen plant. In October 2014, the discharge of toxins apparently caused fish to die in the river area.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Model project for spatial planning (MORO) "Spatial development strategies for climate change" Regional Planning Association Leipzig Westsachsen, Dresden, March 2010, on: klimamoro.de (pdf; 4.4 MB)
  2. ↑ SLUB Dresden: Topographic map (equidistant map and measuring table sheets) Saxony, sheet 42 (1876-1936)
  3. ↑ Google Maps
  4. ↑ Report to the European Commission 2005, Table 2. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; Retrieved June 6, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Dead fish in the Lazy Puddle. In: LVZ Region Borna from October 12, 2014. Accessed June 6, 2015 .