Upper Lippe Water Association

Upper Lippe Water Association ; (WOL)
legal form	Public corporation
Seat	Büren , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding	20th January 1971
Board	Manfred Müller , Eva Irrgang , Martin Huebner
executive Director	Volker Karthaus
Members	Kreis Paderborn , Kreis Soest
Website	www.wol-nrw.de

The Upper Lippe Water Association is responsible for flood protection and water maintenance in the area of the Upper Lippe . It was founded due to the Heinrich flood, which caused severe flooding in July 1965.

Heinrich flood of 1965 and its consequences

On July 16 and 17, 1965, as in all of East Westphalia, North Hesse and South Lower Saxony, unmeasured amounts of precipitation fell in the upper Lippe region and caused the catastrophic flooding. The precipitation here is around 90 to 100 mm in July. On the two days, however, fell by 130 mm on the Paderborn plateau , on two days more than the long-term monthly mean. In the days before it had rained so much that the soil's capacity was exhausted. The rain of July 16 and 17, 1965 therefore largely flowed off above ground.

In addition to the devastating damage to private and public facilities, which were found to cost 71 million DM in 1965, 11 people died.

Shortly after the catastrophe, considerations began as to how similar events could be countered in the future. So it was soon realized that the water had to be held back. Keeping the floodplains - the floodplains - free had to become a priority. In addition, the need to create artificial retention areas was recognized as necessary.

A flood protection concept was drawn up by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia together with the regional presidents in Arnsberg and Detmold , the water management and the three districts involved in Büren , Lippstadt and Paderborn . In addition to water developments at critical points, the construction of flood retention basins was primarily planned. After the financing of the project had been clarified, the district councils of the districts involved then decided unanimously to approve the statutes drafted by the district president in Detmold and to join the water board.

Association formation

The district president invited to the founding meeting on January 20, 1971 and put the statutes of the "Water Association for the Upper Lippe Region" into effect on February 1, 1971. Members of the newly founded association were the Büren district, with a participation of 50%, the Paderborn district 25% and the Lippstadt district 25%.

After the municipal reorganization , the association was reconstituted at the February 1975 meeting. Since then, members have been the Paderborn district with a 75% stake and the Soest district with 25%.

The association's tasks today

The task of the association is flood protection and water maintenance, which are increasingly developing into water protection with the amendments to the state water law. A core task is the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. According to this, the waters are to be put in an ecological, good condition. The implementation of these requirements is an essential task of the water board in its catchment area. In the area of technical flood protection, the conversion of the valley lakes as a flood reservoir can be seen as a by-pass (2012-2014). Almost 500,000 m³ of retention volume are activated here. The Upper Lippe Water Association also offers excursions to view current construction work.

The association based in Büren currently maintains approx. 488 km of association waters, some of which are of supraregional importance. Since January 1, 1994, in addition to its flood retention basins, the water association has been operating the flood retention basins in the Soest district, which are outside the association's area. The brewery access and Widey flood retention basins above the urban area of Warstein were added in 2014. These HRB are owned by the Soest district and operated by WOL.

The Lippeverband in Essen takes care of regulating and keeping water clean in the lower catchment area of the Lippe .

Association's flood retention basin

The flood retention basins of the Upper Lippe Water Association are summarized in the following table.

HRB of the Upper Lippe Water Association
No.	Flood retention basin	construction time	Catchment area [km²]	Traffic jam content with normal traffic jam [hm³]	specific storage volume [m³ / km²]	Storage area [ha]	highest congestion destination above sole [m]
1	Crooked reason I & II	1972-1974	17.00	0.70	43.750	16.00	15.00 / 5.50
2	Ebbinghausen / Sauer	1974-1976	110	1.94	17.636	41.50	12.40
3	Keddinghausen / Afte	1974-1976	156	1.74	11.090	43.00	10.20
4th	Pöppelsche	1975-1977	42.00	1.30	30,952	20.80	15.50
5	Eringerfeld / Westernschledde	1977-1988	25.00	1.06	42,400	17.90	16.00
6th	Borchen / Ellerbach	1978-1980	87.00	1.94	22.299	31.40	17.10
7th	Sudheim / Sauer	1978-1980	33.00	2.51	76.060	72.00	11.15
8th	Husen-Dalheim / Altenau	1982-1984	55.00	3.55	64.545	50.00	18.70
9	Padersee	1982-1984	60.00	0.08	1.333	8.32	2.34
10	Steinhorst	1968-1970	99.00	1.51	15.252	145.90	2.30
11	Gollental reason	1994-1996	63.10	1.26	19.968	33.05	12.44
12	Benhausen	2006-2008	9,846	0.385	39.102	11.0085	13.5
13	Lippesee	1979-1986	936.93	0.516		86.00
14th	Georg Marshall Ring (HRB 1)	1999-2000	6.48			4.60
15th	Detmolder Straße (HRB 100) - Becken1	2006	18.6			1.75
16	Detmolder Straße (HRB 100) - Becken2	2006	18.6			1.47
17th	Benhauser Strasse (HRB 203)	1989	16.0			1.6

Flood retention basin operated for the Soest district

The following table summarizes the flood retention basins in the Soest district that are outside the association area and have been operated by the Obere Lippe water association since January 1, 1994.

HRB District Soest
No.	Flood retention basin	construction time	Catchment area [km²]	Traffic jam content with normal traffic jam [hm³]	specific storage volume [m³ / km²]	Storage area [ha]	highest congestion destination above sole [m]
1	Aakgraben	1992	8.66	0.19	21,940	9.24	7.53
2	Buderich	1987	6.10	0.45	73.770	12.40	14.00
3	Höhbergtal	1984	7.05	0.54	76,596	10.05	17.77
4th	Meiningsen	1988	4.40	0.28	63.636	8.40	13.15
5	AK Werl	1984	2.80	0.22	78.571	6.90	11.80
6th	Walbkebach	1988	23.00	0.02	6.667	1.31	6.45

Association waters

Association waters in the Paderborn district

No.	Surname	Length [km]	of which in the Soest district [km]	DGKZ
1	Aabach	5,540		278244
2	Abelbach	0.900
3	Afte	13,750		27824
4th	Ahden reason	1,800
5	Alme	53,500		2782
6th	Altenau	23,370		27828
7th	Asseler Bach	0.800
8th	Beke	16,700		27816
9	Dahlbach	1,800
10	Dahlgosse	3.830
11	Delbrück-Cappeler-Graben	6.220	4.775
12	Durbeke	8,700		278162
13	Fast reason	1,300
14th	Ellerbach	27,400		278286
15th	Ems	16,970		3
16	Furlbach	8.265		3112
17th	Glass of water	2,465
18th	Gollental reason	3,000
19th	Gottebach	2.860
20th	Grubebach	11.225		3116
21st	Gunne	12,820		27836
22nd	Haustenbach	13,550		2784
23	Heder	11,580		278372
24	Karpke	6,300		278242
26th	Krollbach	9.045		278414
27	Krollbach im Erdgarten	1.645
28	lip	10.200		278
29	Wages	2,200
30th	nameless	1,400
31	New Haustenbach	18,900
32	Odenheimer Bach	3,200		2782844
33	Pader	4,200		27818
34	Pader-Alme transition	1.150
35	Piepenbach	2,000		278282
36	Angry	24,700		278284
37	Schmittwasser	4.150		2782846
38	Steinbeke	10,500		27814
39	Steinhaars reason	1,400
40	Tuna	6,000		27832
41	Wiele	1,800		27824

Association waters in the Soest district

No.	Surname	Length [km]	of which in the Soest district [km]	DGKZ
1	Abelbach	10.260
2	Brandenbäumer Bach	2.100
3	Delbrück-Cappeler-Graben	6.220	1.445
4th	Erwitter Mühlenbach	2,800
5	Geseker Bach	7,540
6th	Gieseler	21,600
7th	Glasebach	5.100
8th	Hoinkhauser Bach	3.010
9	Holser Flüth	0.715
10	Lake	8.040
11	Löher God	0.850
12	Manninghofer Bach	5,800
13	Merschgraben	6.280
14th	Oestereider god	0.600
15th	Pöppelsche	9,950		278522
16	Schledde	7.100
17th	Steinbach	3.760
18th	Störmeder Bach	5.720
19th	Trotsbach	8.520
20th	Westernschledde	8,900
21st	Wiemecke (see Trotsbach)	5,700

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Arnsberg district government: Lippe flood action plan / statutes of the Upper Lippe water association (PDF; 972 kB) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Accessed on July 22, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b Wasserverband Obere Lippe: Overview of the flood retention basins . Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2012.

Web links

Web presence of the water association Obere Lippe

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[WOL_Satzung-1] Arnsberg district government: Lippe flood action plan / statutes of the Upper Lippe water association (PDF; 972 kB) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Accessed on July 22, 2012.

[WOL-2] Wasserverband Obere Lippe: Overview of the flood retention basins . Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2012.