Hochsauerland water
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | July 6, 2005 |
| Seat | Meschede , Germany |
| management | Managing Director: Christoph Rosenau (commercial), Robert Dietrich (technical) |
| Number of employees | 59 (as of April 7, 2020) |
| Website | www.hochsauerlandwasser.de |
The Hochsauerland water GmbH (HSW) is a joint municipal drinking water supply company of the cities Meschede and Olsberg and the municipality Bestwig . The task and corporate purpose of Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH is not only the public water supply but also the assumption of related municipal tasks. This includes commercial and technical management tasks as well as consulting services for municipal water and sewage works or other supply companies. Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH has concluded contractual agreements to take over the following operational management tasks:
- Commercial and technical management for the wastewater works of the city of Olsberg
- Commercial and technical management of the wastewater plant in the municipality of Bestwig
- Commercial and technical management for the Hochsauerland water association
- Operation and maintenance of street lighting in the cities of Olsberg and Meschede as well as the municipality of Bestwig.
- Commercial management for Hochsauerland Energie GmbH and Hochsauerland Netze GmbH & Co. KG
Structure and tasks
The task and corporate purpose according to the articles of association is the public water supply and the assumption of related municipal tasks such as energy supply, the tasks of street lighting and / or sewage disposal as well as the construction, acquisition, expansion and operation of the facilities serving this purpose. In addition, the company may provide services or participate in companies that are related to the aforementioned corporate purpose. This includes in particular commercial and / or technical management and advice for municipal water and wastewater works and other municipal and inter-municipal utility companies. The company's headquarters are in Meschede .
organs
The organs of the company are the management, the supervisory board and the shareholders' meeting. The supervisory board consists of a total of 13 members. Four members are sent by the community of Bestwig, four members from the city of Meschede, four members from the city of Olsberg and one member from the ranks of the workforce. Christoph Rosenau and Robert Dietrich have been managing directors since HochsauerlandWasser GmbH was founded in 2005.
Coverage area
The extent of the supply area corresponds to the area of the three shareholder communities Bestwig, Meschede and Olsberg with a total size of approx. 400 km² and around 55,600 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2018).
Water supply
As of January 1, 2015, water is provided for the supply area from 15 extraction systems, 30 elevated tanks, 667 km of pipeline network, 16,809 house connections and a large number of pressure boosting systems, pumping stations, pressure reducers, control and meter shafts.
The water quality is continuously monitored. Due to environmental influences and consequently increasing standards from legal requirements for the quality of the drinking water supply, the extraction and treatment plants are constantly adapted to the generally recognized rules of technology or the state of the art, with great financial and human effort. The two large water extraction systems on the Ruhr, “Mengesohl” and “Stockhausen”, were brought up to the state of the art by the end of 2010 with innovative filtration systems.
The "Hennesee waterworks", equipped with the most modern technologies, has been in operation since 2016.
Water supply infrastructure
Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH processes it itself so that the water that is mainly obtained near the surface can be turned into drinking water. A smaller amount of drinking water is also obtained from the Hochsauerland water association and the Arnsberg municipal utility. Distribution:
- approx. 55,600 inhabitants
- Supply area approx. 400 km²
- Water sales approx. 3.7 million m³ / year
- Pipeline network 667 km in length
history
On July 6, 2005, the municipal company Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH was founded. The three partner municipalities of Bestwig, Meschede and Olsberg transferred their water supply companies, which had previously been run as proprietary operations, to Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH on December 31, 2005, which started its supply activities on January 1, 2006. The transfer took place by way of a spin-off in accordance with the Transformation Act (UmwG). After the merger in the water supply sector, considerations arose since 2006 to operate the energy supply jointly and to (re-) municipalize it. HochsauerlandEnergie GmbH (HE) was then founded on May 6, 2009 with the aim of jointly remunicipalising the electricity and gas supply. The HE is a municipal energy supply company (EVU) that was founded by the cities of Meschede and Olsberg and the municipality of Bestwig together with the city of Lippstadt. HochsauerlandEnergie's shareholders are in equal parts the municipal company Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH and Stadtwerke Lippstadt GmbH. In addition to selling electricity (since 2009) and gas (since 2010), HochsauerlandEnergie GmbH has been the sole owner and shareholder of Hochsauerland Netze GmbH & Co.KG and thus the electricity and gas networks in the cities of Meschede and Olsberg since January 1, 2020 as well as in the municipality of Bestwig. Hochsauerlandwasser GmbH has been responsible for street lighting in Bestwig, Meschede and Olsberg since 2010.
Web links
- HochsauerlandWasser GmbH
- HochsauerlandEnergie GmbH
- Hochsauerland water association
- Construction of the Hennesee waterworks
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 30.7 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 15.6 ″ E