Bürstadt waterworks

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Bürstadt waterworks - view from the north
Control center

The waterworks in the Bürstädter Wald has been supplying parts of the city of Worms and the communities of Lampertheim and Bürstadt with drinking water since October 18, 1905 . The under monument protection standing Ensemble in 2005 celebrated its centenary with an open day.

Initially equipped with 30 shallow wells , it currently has eight deep wells . The operator is the local energy supplier EEA .

Ventilation system

advancement

The so-called raw water , which is pumped from a depth of up to 135 meters, initially contains sulfur , iron and manganese . It is enriched with oxygen by a ventilation system , whereby the iron and manganese components contained are filtered out after their oxidation before it is fed into the pipe network. By a plurality of underground pipelines, it is among other things to Worms in the in the high-altitude area behind the Wormser Hospital located Rameyer high container transported and placed over the Wormser households and industrial plants available. The tanks together have a capacity of 16,000 m³ .

history

Until the end of the 19th century, the city of Worms got its drinking water from the Rhine . When the city of Mannheim began to discharge its untreated sewage into the Rhine, a supply bottleneck arose for Worms. The waterworks was then built in the Bürstädter Forest, the architectural form of which was designed by Worms city architect Georg Metzler in a country house style. In 1934 Bürstadt was also connected to the plant's water supply. The waterworks fed the Worms water tower until 1962 .

Water quality

The hardness of the pumped water corresponds with 2.5 mmol / liter calcium carbonate (17.6 ° dH ) to the water hardness range "hard".

The proportion of natural uranium is less than 0.0001 mg / liter.

quality control

The water quality and the function of the filter systems are constantly monitored by sensors; Any deviations from the standard values ​​are displayed on monitoring monitors and, at times when the waterworks is unmanned, forwarded to the control center in Worms. Every well is equipped with manipulation sensors so that an unauthorized opening of a well would result in the immediate, fully automated shutdown of the waterworks. The water supply would then be taken over by the elevated tanks alone, which in such a case serve as a drinking water reserve.

Web links

Commons : Wasserwerk Bürstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bürstadt waterworks. (PDF) In: grundwasser-online.de. Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Architectural gem. In: morgenweb . November 20, 2013, accessed November 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b waterworks. In: ewr-netz.de. Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b Groundwater works in the Bürstädter Wald. In: rhein-neckar-industriekultur.de. Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
  5. ^ Uranium in drinking water from large water supply systems in Rhineland-Palatinate. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Information brochure on the Bürstadt waterworks

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 29.5 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 31.3"  E