Elsterwerda Water and Wastewater Association
The Elsterwerda Water and Wastewater Association ( WAV Elsterwerda for short ) is an association of towns and municipalities in southern Brandenburg to ensure the public drinking water supply and wastewater disposal in the Elbe-Elster district . The seat is in Elsterwerda .
Current members of the association are the cities of Bad Liebenwerda and Elsterwerda as well as the communities Hohenleipisch , Röderland and Plessa . It supplies a large part of the places in the area of the former Bad Liebenwerda district .
Company history
With the takeover of the drinking and wastewater systems from " Cottbuser Wasser und Abwasser AG" (COWAG), which was then in liquidation, the Elsterwerda Water and Wastewater Association was officially founded on April 22, 1995. "Stadtwerk Elsterwerda GmbH" initially took over the management. After a Europe-wide tender by the management, the "envia AQUA GmbH" Chemnitz took over this in 2002 . Since 2013, the company has been managing the company independently.
Drinking water supply
The drinking water supply in the network area is provided by the waterworks in Oschätze , Theisa , Frauenhain , Fichtenberg and Merzdorf . WAV Elsterwerda itself has a waterworks and five wells. The pipeline network is currently around 300 kilometers long. Currently more than 8,000 households are connected, which supplies around 25,000 residents with drinking water.
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Drinking water supply in the network area of the WAV Elsterwerda |
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| Waterworks | operator | Coverage area | |||||
| O baby | WAV Elsterwerda | - Elsterwerda with the district Kraupa , - Bad Liebenwerda with the districts Dobra , Kröbeln , Oschätze, Prieschka , Zeischa , Zobersdorf - Hohenleipisch with the district Dreska , - Röderland with its districts Haida , Würdenhain , Reichenhain and Saathain - Plessa with the districts Kahla , Plessa -South and Döllingen |
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| Theisa | Water association "Kleine Elster" Winkel | - Thalberg and Theisa | |||||
| Frauenhain | Drinking water - Zweckverband Pfeifholz | - Prosen and Stolzenhain | |||||
| Fichtenberg | Water supply Riesa / Großenhain GmbH | - Burxdorf , Kosilenzien , Langenrieth and Neuburxdorf | |||||
| Merzdorf | Schradenland water and wastewater association | - Wainsdorf | |||||
Sanitation
The disposal of wastewater in the network area is currently carried out for around 25,000 inhabitants. In addition, there is the purchase of wastewater from other associations. The WAV Elsterwerda wastewater sewer network currently has a length of 344 kilometers, that of the rainwater network over 65 kilometers. The network's sewage treatment plants are located in Bad Liebenwerda and Elsterwerda. In addition to the connections via an extensive pipeline system, the faeces of the non-connectable properties are transported to the sewage treatment plant and cleaned using mobile faecal disposal vehicles .
Bad Liebenwerda sewage treatment plant
The Bad Liebenwerda sewage treatment plant was built shortly after the fall of the Wall at a cost of around 20 million Deutschmarks and put into operation in 1994. The wastewater from the western towns of Bad Liebenwerda, Kröbeln, Prieschka, Zeischa, Zobersdorf, Oschätze, Dobra, Reichenhain, Kosilenzien, Neuburxdorf, Thalberg, Möglenz , Lausitz and Theisa are cleaned here.
Elsterwerda sewage treatment plant
The sewage treatment plant located directly on the Schwarzen Elster in the industrial area East in Elsterwerda was officially put into operation on November 1st, 1994. The wastewater from the eastern parts of the Elsterwerda, Plessa, Hohenleipisch, Döllingen, Dreska, Kahla, Würdenhain, Haida, Saathain, Kraupa, Prösen and Wainsdorf network is cleaned here.
The approximately 60 million German marks costing construction of the sewage treatment plant Elsterwerdaer came early in the criticism. It was one of the first important infrastructural structures to be rebuilt in Elsterwerda after the fall of the Wall . With an originally planned capacity of 240,000 population equivalents , although only 35,000 population equivalents were intended for the households to be connected, it was considered to be significantly oversized. The remaining capacities should now be used by large companies to settle in the newly created industrial park. However, this hope was not fulfilled later.
In fact, it was probably the case that the sewage treatment plant was one of the basic requirements for the establishment of the Elsterwerda dairy plant, which was then built by the March Group . And even if the industrial area east , which covers 152 hectares, is currently largely used to capacity, there were no further settlements of large companies with a high demand for water, in particular due to the March group, which went bankrupt in 1996 and has since been completely dismantled, in the period that followed . Contrary to expectations at the time, the number of inhabitants in Elsterwerda and the surrounding area has decreased drastically since the sewage treatment plant was built. In Elsterwerda alone, the population fell from 10,726 in 1994 to 8,161 in 2014.
A digestion tower with a capacity of around 3000 m³ biomass , which can be used to generate gas and whose operation was previously considered uneconomical, will go into operation in mid-2016 over 20 years after its construction.
Publications
WAV Elsterwerda is the publisher of the "Lausitzer Wasserzeitung" , whose editorial support was taken over by the Berlin agency Spree-PR . The ad-free customer information sheet appears quarterly and is distributed free of charge to all households in the association's territory.
Web links
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ List of association members on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 25, 2015
- ^ Association history on the homepage of WAV Elsterwerda ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 25, 2015
- ↑ Internet presence of WAV Elsterwerda ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2015
- ↑ a b Status: 2014
- ↑ a b Facts and figures of the association on the homepage of WAV Elsterwerda ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ Wasserwerk Oschätze on the homepage of WAV Elsterwerda ( Memento from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ Theisa waterworks on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ Frauenhain waterworks on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( memorial from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ Wasserwerk Fichtenberg on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ Wasserwerk Merzdorf on the homepage of WAV Elsterwerda ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
- ↑ a b “Dredging instead of thinking” in Der Spiegel , 07/1995
- ↑ The Bad Liebenwerda sewage treatment plant on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2015
- ↑ The Elsterwerda sewage treatment plant on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2015
- ↑ Ulrich Schaefer: "Tell me where the billions are" in Die Zeit , September 1995
- ↑ March has to file for bankruptcy . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 11, 1996.
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 14-17
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg according to independent cities, districts and municipalities 1991 to 2014 ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Abwasserverband in der Crisis" on www.ee-fernsehen.de ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from October 14, 2010, accessed on December 29, 2015
- ↑ “Finally the digestion tower can be busy” in Lausitzer Wasserzeitung , publisher: Wasser- und Abwasserverband Elsterwerda, edition 04/2015
- ↑ The Lausitzer Wasserzeitung on the WAV Elsterwerda homepage ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )