Moorfleeter Canal
The Moorfleeter Canal is a canal mainly in the Hamburg district of Billbrook . Only a small part at its beginning belongs to the eponymous district of Moorfleet . It is 1,750 meters long and 70 meters wide, except for a 200-meter-long section in the southern section, where it narrows to 45 meters. The canal serves to develop the southernmost part of the Billbrook / Rothenburgsort industrial area.
The canal starts at the Tiefstack thermal power station in an east- south- east direction from Billwerder Bucht ( Lage ) and after 270 meters it crosses under the Andreas Meyer Bridge in the course of Ring 2 . After another 130 meters, the tidal channel branches off to the northeast. The canal then runs for a further 1350 meters between Andreas-Meyer-Straße (Ring 2) and Halskestraße, after a slight bend towards the southeast ( Lage ).
The Moorfleeter Canal is a state waterway and is part of the port usage area of the Port of Hamburg . It is part of the tidal port and mostly falls dry during the low tide.
Dioxin at the Moorfleeter Canal
On the banks of Moorfleeter channel (now the narrowed passage portion) was located since 1924 a herbicide - and pesticide plant of Boehringer Ingelheim . For years this poisoned the soil and the groundwater with dioxins , chlorobenzenes and chlorobenzenes . The sediment in the Moorfleeter Canal was also affected. After the plant was closed in 1984, the renovation began, but failed because of the aggressiveness of the substances. From 1995 to 1998 the soil was encapsulated by sealing walls up to 50 meters deep and since then the groundwater has been cleaned in a filter station and then fed into the sewer. Less heavily contaminated sediments were deposited in the former turning basin at the end of the canal and the turning basin was ultimately backfilled. This shortened the Moorfleeter Canal by 360 meters.
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- ↑ Geoportal Hamburg , accessed on April 5, 2019
- ↑ Hamburg Water Act (HWaG) in the version of March 29, 2005 , accessed on April 14, 2019
- ↑ Port Development Act of January 25, 1982, Annex 2: Description of boundaries , accessed on April 5, 2019
- ↑ Carolin Wahnbaeck: Environmental scandals in Germany: What happened to the dioxin in the soil? , Spiegel Online from October 17, 2016, accessed on April 5, 2019
- ^ Authority for Urban Development and the Environment: Moorfleeter Canal at www.hamburg.de, accessed on April 5, 2019
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