Piping (hydraulic engineering)

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End of a ditch at the edge of the forest
Annaberger Bach in Bonn at the outlet of the brook into the Rhine

In hydraulic engineering, piping refers to the laying of flowing water underground.

Piping means, on the one hand, laying in a pipeline in the true sense of the word, and, on the other hand, routing in a covered channel .

The guidance in the pipe is used for the hydraulic engineering of the watercourse and / or the drainage (drainage).

Pipework can be found both on very short stretches of watercourse , for example in penetrations under road and railroad embankments (in the sense of a simplified structural solution instead of a bridge ) as well as on long watercourse sections , for example in urban areas. This means that when it comes to piping, the terms of the sewer as an artificially created bed of water mix with that of the sewer system as a sewage system for surface water. Special forms of piping are, for example, the aqueduct (line bridge , there is also an uncovered version), the culvert (pressure line as an underpass, for example under another body of water) or the pressure pipeline with steep slopes (for example for water diversions as a feed in the area of hydropower plants ). Pipelines ( rock construction ) that run entirely through the rock are referred to as water tunnels .

Piping is the strongest building class of artificial or significantly anthropogenically modified bodies of water, and thus the most severe denaturation of a body of water.

In the past, a low-cost construction method was in the foreground for piping in the settlement area; for water development and improvement of the water quality, (partial) renaturation can reduce water morphological deficits such as piping.

See also

  • In contrast to piped brooks, the Freiburg Bächle in the urban area are partly open water bodies in the street area.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c So z. B. Clemens Gumpinger, Simonetta Siligato: Defense register of the Krems and its tributaries. Water protection report 32/2004. Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Environment and Water Management Department, Surface Water Management Department, Linz 2004, 148 pages ( PDF (164.4 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
  2. ↑ Passage in the sense of DIN 4047 Part 5 in DIN 1996. Information according to Martin Reiss, Natascha Zipprich: Ecological continuity of pipework in small rivers. A water structure recording method. In: NuL 46 (5), 2014, Section 4 Piping as Wanderbarrieren , p. 155, column 1 f ( full article p. 153–159; pdf , uni-marburg.de).
  3. ↑ Water restoration - preserve and develop water bodies
  4. ^ Renaturation , Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.