Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation

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Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation

State level country
position State company
Supervisory authority Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection
founding January 1, 2005
Headquarters At the sports field 23
26506 north
Authority management Anne Rickmeyer
Servants 1400
Web presence www.nlwkn.niedersachsen.de

The Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation ( NLWKN ) is a Lower Saxony state company based in Norden , which belongs to the division of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection . This state company also has the function of an authority .

Emergence

The NLWKN was created on January 1, 2005 from the merger of several previously independent authorities:

Through this merger, the state of Lower Saxony concentrated its state tasks of water management and nature conservation in a decentralized state authority, which from then on was no longer bound by administrative borders.

organization

Parts of the NLWKN can be found everywhere in Lower Saxony

The directorate of the NLWKN is based in the city of Norden. The strategic tasks of the authority are processed here. The founding director was Siegfried Popp, his successor as director is Anne Rickmeyer. The specialist tasks on site are implemented in the operating offices. These are spread all over Lower Saxony and enable a regional presence: Aurich , Brake - Oldenburg , Cloppenburg , Hanover- Hildesheim , Lüneburg, Meppen , Norden- Norderney , Stade , Sulingen , Süd ( Braunschweig and Göttingen ) and Verden .

Ships

The company has seven vessels, each built for their different tasks and equipped, including the "Nynorderoog" which in 2017 was put into service " Leysand " was built in succession the " Janssand " the "Burchana.", The " Utlandshörn " and the " Leyhörn ".

Business areas

The assigned tasks are reflected in the name of the state authority: Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management , Coastal Protection and Nature Protection .

The NLWKN is divided into seven business areas . They are headed by business area managers who are based in Norden, Hanover, Lüneburg and Norderney:

  • Operation and maintenance of state-owned facilities and waters, pollution control, based in the north
  • Planning and construction of water management systems and bodies of water, based in the north
  • River basin management, regional hydrological service , radiological monitoring, based in the north
  • Regional nature protection, based in Hanover
  • General administration, finance, personnel, headquarters in the north
  • Water management approval procedures, based in Lüneburg (see also water law )
  • Nationwide nature protection, based in Hanover
  • Coastal Research Center , based in Norderney. Her move to the mainland was announced in autumn 2019.
  • Wolf office of the NLWKN

Significant plants

services

  • Flood warning service in the catchment area of ​​the rivers Weser , Aller and Leine
  • Storm surge warning service for the Lower Saxony coast
  • Water level data ( water levels ) for the Weser and Ems

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the NLWKN from January 4, 2019 , accessed on January 6, 2019
  2. ↑ Press release of the NLWKN of December 1, 2017 , accessed on January 6, 2019
  3. ↑ Press release of the NLWKN from September 4, 2017 , accessed on January 6, 2019
  4. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment of September 10, 2019 , accessed on September 11, 2019
  5. ↑ The Wolf's office NLWKN