Lip bandage
| Lip bandage | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Public corporation |
| purpose | Wastewater treatment, securing the runoff, flood protection and water maintenance |
| Seat | Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| founding | January 19, 1926
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| Board |
Ulrich Paetzel Emanuel Grün Raimund Echterhoff |
| Members | 157 |
| Employee | 1,624 (permanent employees with Emschergenossenschaft) |
| Website | www.eglv.de |
The Lippeverband has been a public water management association since 1926 for water maintenance, sewage discharge and purification , groundwater management and regulation of mining consequences in the lower catchment area of the Lippe from Lippborg to the Rhine with around 1.4 million inhabitants.
Tasks of the Lippeverband
The Lippe River is managed by the Lippeverband over the lower 147 km of 220 km in total (around 3,280 km² by 4,890 km²). The tasks of the Lippeverband are defined in the "Law on the Lippeverband" (LippeVG):
- Regulation of water runoff including balancing the water flow and securing the flood runoff of surface waters or sections of water and in their catchment areas ;
- Maintenance of surface waters or sections of water and the facilities functionally related to them;
- Return of developed surface waters to a near-natural state;
- Regulation of the groundwater level ;
- Avoidance, reduction, elimination and compensation of water management and related ecological changes caused by effects on the groundwater level, in particular by coal mining , or expected adverse changes;
- Wastewater disposal in accordance with the State Water Act ;
- Disposal of the waste generated during the performance of the association's tasks ;
- Avoidance, reduction, elimination and compensation of adverse changes in the surface water that have occurred or are expected to be caused by wastewater discharges or other causes;
- Determination of the water management conditions, insofar as the association's tasks require it;
- Procurement and supply of water for drinking and - industrial water supply as well as the utilization of hydropower .
Another task is to balance the water flow in cooperation with the West German Canals Water Association (WWK) founded in 1969 . Its purpose is to supply the canals with fresh water. The West German sewer network draws fresh water from the Lippe via a pumping station in Hamm, and the Lippe receives water from the canals during dry periods.
Association history
In terms of water management, the Lippe presents itself as a two-part river: Above Hamm , the catchment area is more agricultural; from Hamm the settlement and mining industry influences increase. Accordingly, the establishment of a water management association for the Lippe catchment area resulted from the industrialization of the (northern) Ruhr area . The forerunner of the Lippeverband was the Seseke cooperative.
Seseke cooperative
The Sesekegenossenschaft was from 1913 for water management in the lip-side run Seseke responsible forerunner of the lip federation in which they rose at its inception 1926th The Seseke is a tributary flowing from the south of the Lippe, whose catchment area of 319.45 km² lies in the area of the cities of Werl , Unna , Hamm , Bönen , Kamen , Bergkamen , Lünen and Dortmund . With the construction of the Cologne-Mindener Railway in the 1840s, the northern Ruhr area including Hamms was connected to the railway network, so that population and industrial growth received a boost. With the establishment of the first hard coal mine in the Seseke area, uncontrolled sewage discharges and subsidence began in the 1860s, with corresponding runoff disturbances and environmental impacts; parallel to the drainage emergency in the Emscher catchment area, comparable problems arose in the Seseke catchment area. Although the water management consequences of the coal and steel industry were feared for other parts of the Lippe catchment area, the initial effects on the Seseke were so serious that no time was wanted to be lost. With the help of the Emschergenossenschaft, representatives of the municipalities prepared their own catchment area- related association, which was formally decreed by King Wilhelm of Prussia on June 5, 1913 with the "Seseke Law". The Seseke cooperative initially started work in an administrative unit with the Emscher cooperative to ensure the receiving water in the Seseke area.
The First World War and the economic difficulties of the following years did not allow extensive construction work, so that only the most necessary construction work was carried out for a better drainage. As early as 1919, at the instigation of the District President in Münster, investigations were initiated among the experts at the Emschergenossenschaft, for which other catchment areas an expansion of the cooperative concept would be expedient. In 1921 the investigations were concluded with the realization that the industrialization between Hamm and the confluence with the Rhine was to be expected to the extent that the establishment of a Lippe Association was expedient. This was then formally founded with the Lippe Law of January 19, 1926 and the Seseke cooperative became part of the Lippe Association.
Lip bandage
Uncontrolled sewage discharges and subsidence with corresponding runoff disturbances and environmental problems arose in many small tributaries and the Lippe itself, e.g. B. as a result of the commissioning of the Radbod colliery in Hamm in 1905 with the associated coking plant from 1912 or the Victoria colliery (Lünen) and the surrounding area from 1907 with the associated coking plant from 1911. Although the most serious runoff problems were initially only repaired in the Seseke catchment area, they followed before the transition in the Lippeverband Construction work in other parts of the Lippe area: The Eversbach in Hamm was canalized in 1920, followed in 1923/24 by the smaller catchment areas at Dattelner Mühlenbach, Hasseler Mühlenbach and Picksmühlenbach (today located in Gelsenkirchen ). In addition to the technical expansion of the waters, dykes were also increasingly required.
The tasks assigned to the new association in accordance with the Lippe Law of January 19, 1926 were the "management of the water resources in the cooperative area as well as the production, maintenance and [...] operation of systems for the preservation and utilization of the water resources". The Lippeverband took over the sewage treatment plants from the municipalities of Westerholt, Dorsten and Haltern and built its first own sewage treatment plant in Soest from 1932, which was followed by Hamm and Kamen-Körnebach in 1941.
Since their foundation, the Sesekegenossenschaft and Lippeverband have formed an administrative partnership with the Emschergenossenschaft in Essen . This cooperation made sense because many cities in the northern Ruhr area are located in both river basins, both Lippe and Emscher. The public-law form of organization aims to involve all “water users” equally in the cost-effective measures. The calculation is based on the polluted loads of the wastewater for each water user and "special interests" are assessed for services that go beyond this.
The association in the present
The tasks of the Lippeverband have changed significantly beyond pure water management. As a result of the Seseke program for water renaturation in the 1980s and the Emscherpark International Building Exhibition (1989–1999), the demands of association members and politicians on the Lippeverband have changed to the effect that urban planning, landscape design and artistic tasks (such as walking over water ) are also performed . The improvement of the water structure plays a decisive role in the development of the Lippe into a living body of water. The Lippe is a so-called first-order body of water and is therefore owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between the mouth of the Lippe in the Rhine and Lippborg, the Lippeverband carries out the measures for the ecological development of the Lippe on behalf of the state. The measures are funded by the state as part of the Living Waters program. A major project is the renewal of the flood protection dykes in Haltern-Lippramsdorf and Marl (HaLiMa) over a length of 5.6 kilometers. The existing dykes on the north and south banks of the Lippe will be replaced by new, relocated dams. In addition, the Lippe gains an area of around 60 hectares. When the construction work is complete, the Lippe will be much flatter and wider than it is today.
Since the 2000s, questions of climate change and socio-political challenges such as drug residues in water have been added. Particularly in the so-called micropollutant elimination, the Lippeverband is working with European institutions at various sewage treatment plants on new technologies and awareness-raising campaigns to reduce the entry of drugs and treat wastewater contaminated with pharmaceuticals. This task is of particular importance for the sub-catchment areas in which sewage treatment plants of the Lippeverband are located in drinking water catchment areas for the entire northern Ruhr area, e.g. B. in the Stever area.
Committees and Board of Directors
The tasks are regulated in the Emschergenossenschafts- and Lippeverbandgesetz and the statutes and rules of procedure. Organs of the associations are the cooperative / association assembly, the cooperative / association council and the board of directors. The association assemblies are the highest decision-making body and are made up of representatives of the members (delegates). The Emscher Cooperative Council and the Lippe Association Council are elected by the respective association assembly. The cooperative and association council elects the board and appoints a board member as chairman.
The current board members are: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Paetzel (Chairman and Board Member Strategy and Commercial Services), Dr. Emanuel Grün (Board Member for Water Management and Technical Services) and Raimund Echterhoff (Board Member for Human Resources and Sustainability). The former chairmen of the board: Wilhelm Middeldorf (1905 to 1911), Dr. Heinrich Helbing (1911 to 1933), Dr. Alexander Ramshorn (1934 to 1958), Dr. Erich Knop (1958 to 1974), Dr. Gunther Annen (1974 to 1991) and Dr. Jochen Stemplewski (1992 to 2016).
In 2015 the objection procedure against notices of public corporations was reintroduced. The objection committees are partly elected by the respective association assembly, partly the members are appointed directly by the supervisory authority. The supervisory authority is the Ministry of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia responsible for water management, the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection.
The delegate assemblies are reassembled every five years. The newly elected delegates then determine the members of the cooperative council and the association council and, in some cases, the members of the appeal committees. Multiple terms of office are permitted for all committee members.
Association area
The Lippe Law was amended in 1990 and regulates the new catchment area of the Lippe Association as the Lippe Association Law (LippeVG). Section 5 (1) of the LippeVG of 1990 defines the above-ground catchment area as the association area
- the Lippe below Lippborg (Lippe-km 142.44) to the mouth,
- des Mommbaches (Stollbach, Langhorster Leitgraben),
- the Lohberger drainage ditch including the Bruckhauser Mühlenbach and
- of the Rotbach
firmly. With the amendment, there were also the sub-areas of the communities of Ahlen and Beckum , which are located above coal fields. The planning and reserve rooms for the north migration of the Ruhr mining industry in the communities of Ahlen, Ascheberg , Beckum, Drensteinfurt , Ennigerloh , Raesfeld and Sendenhorst became the association area.
Key figures
As of December 31, 2018
- Members of the Lippe Association: 157
- Catchment area: 3,280 km²
- Population: approx. 1.39 million
- Watercourses: 430 km (of which Lippe: 147 km)
- Sewers: 1,099 km
- Dikes 76.13 km (of which Lippe 32.61 km)
- Sewage treatment plants: 54 (total capacity 2.3 million population equivalents)
- Pumping stations: 246 (155 drainage pumping stations, 91 sewage pumping stations)
- Share of areas drained by pumping stations in the association area: 15.7%
- Flood retention basin: 32
- Rainwater retention basin: 100
literature
- Eva Balz, Christopher Kirchberg: Flowing borders. Wastewater policy between democracy and dictatorship. Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband 1930–1960 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8375-2183-2 .
- Heinrich Helbing: Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband from 1925 to 1930 . Emschergenossenschaft, Essen 1931.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lippeverband is smaller in Dortmund
- ↑ a b c Lippeverband Act
- ↑ State Water Act NRW
- ^ The West German Shipping Canals
- ↑ a b c Lippeverband (self-published): "50 Years Lippeverband", Dortmund / Essen 1975
- ↑ a b Lippeverband: Views of a river - the Lippe. Peter Pomp Verlag, Bottrop / Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89355-226-X .
- ↑ Future Cities project on climate change in urban regions ( Memento from April 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ European cooperation project noPILLS on drug residues in wastewater ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sewage works info
- ↑ http://www.flussgebiete.nrw.de/img_auth.php/e/e7/PE-Stb_Lippe_Entwurf_20141222.pdf (link not available)
- ^ Lippeverband: Facts and Figures (Annual Report), Essen 2019