Reken-Melchenberg waterworks
The waterworks Reken-Melchenberg is located in the North Rhine-Westphalian Westmünsterland on the north of the United Reken located Melchenberg ( 133.8 m above sea level. NN ), the highest elevation of the Höhenzugs Rekener mountains . The operator of the waterworks is the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft (RWW).
The waterworks, built from 1968 to 1969, draws drinking water from six wells . North of the Melchenberg, the Brunnengalerie pumps very pure groundwater from the "Haltern Sands" from a depth of 60 to 120 meters; a Cretaceous marine deposit. The annual capacity is 1.75 million m³.
Apart from a hardening plant commissioned in 2000 and a slight increase in the pH value by means of metering in sodium hydrogen carbonate , no treatment is required, as all other relevant parameters according to the Drinking Water Ordinance such as B. nitrate or pesticides are well below the respective limit values.
A 554.9 hectare area around the Melchenberg has been designated as the Reken-Melchenberg water protection area since May 1998 . As early as 1992, RWW founded an agriculture / water management cooperation with farmers, in which principles for water-friendly land management are developed.
RWW supplies the municipalities of Reken and Velen and Gescher-Hochmoor with drinking water from Groß Reken . Alongside the Dorsten-Holsterhausen and Velen-Tannenbültenberg waterworks, it is one of RWW's three groundwater works.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d AWHS, Reken-Melchenberg water protection area of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft
- ↑ AWHS, article with an overview of annual water withdrawals in Halterner Sanden (Fig. 3) with that of the WWK Reken-Melchenberg ( Memento from August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.96 MB)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 19.9 " N , 7 ° 2 ′ 23.4" E