Water Management Office Bremen
The Bremen Water Management Office was a municipal authority responsible for water management , hydraulic engineering and flood protection in the municipality of Bremen . The office was created as part of an administrative reform in 1939.
history
The predecessor was the Office for Sewerage and Cultural Building . It was initially on Am Deich No. 65/66. Since the area of responsibility only extended to the area of the city of Bremen, until 1939 Bremen-Nord - except for the Vegesack district - as well as Mahndorf and Arbergen were not included. The authority was subordinate to the Senator for Construction. In the course of a standardization of the administration in Germany from 1939 the name was changed to Water Management Office .
After 1945 tasks and responsibilities were essentially retained. The official seat was moved to Bleicherstraße 25. In the 1970s there was a significant expansion to include water protection . A bigger building was needed. The choice fell on the former administration building of the slaughterhouse next to today's cultural center Schlachthof (Bremen) . In 1978 these buildings were rebuilt accordingly and moved into in 1979. 14 garages for company vehicles were available in the courtyard. A separate laboratory was set up for the water tests. In the following years, the superior state authority changed, so that the office was temporarily subordinate to the Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development . The office had around 100 employees, made up of civil servants, employees and workers. In 1981 the head of the office got into the headlines of the press because he had been fined 650 marks by the Bremen district court "for willful unauthorized water pollution".
In the 1990s, all dyke and flood protection tasks were initially transferred to the dyke associations. The head of the office, Hans-Dieter Bücken , became the first president of the Thuringian State Agency for the Environment (TLU) in Jena in 1992 . In 1993 the office was dissolved and integrated into the superordinate authority of the Senator for Building, Environment and Transport as an independent department of water management . The headquarters of the Bremen Water Management Office on Schlachthofstrasse, which had since been renamed Theodor-Heuss-Allee, remained for a few years.
On January 16, 2006, the last head of the office died.
tasks
The Water Management Office was directly responsible for the construction and maintenance of bodies of water, unless they are federal waterways or bodies of water owned by associations or privately owned. As a building office, it was subordinate to the Senator for Building . It also performed the tasks of the lower water authority within the meaning of the Water Management Act. In the area of water quality, it was subordinate to the Senator for Health and Environmental Protection . The office was directly responsible as a carrier of public affairs, as a licensing authority in the administrative procedure under water law, as an informing and advisory specialist authority and in state grant procedures.
The water management office was indirectly responsible for the drinking water supply and wastewater disposal . For example, the discharge of wastewater through the sewage treatment works was controlled. The drinking water supply itself was taken care of by the Bremen municipal utilities . The municipal drainage and waste management office was responsible for municipal wastewater disposal until 1990 ; From 1999 these tasks were taken over by the hanseWasser Bremen GmbH . Hydraulic engineering measures were carried out in coordination with the dike associations.
Heat load plan Weser
In 1974, the Bremen Water Management Authority was in charge of drawing up the Weser heat load plan for the Arge Weser . It emerged from this that the cooling water from the power plants along the Weser warmed the river and situations of oxygen deficiency would arise, which was confirmed by observations in the period that followed. Based on the results, the cooling water temperatures for the power plant operators were limited in order to prevent the fish from dying. The limitation led to operational restrictions in summer, e.g. B. the nuclear power plant Esenshamm . This power plant, which is 50 km downstream from Bremen, therefore recorded an operating loss of 4.6 full-load days in 1991; in 1994 it was around 24 days.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Information… (PDF; 5.9 MB; p. 53) World Meteorological Organization , 1977, accessed on November 19, 2012 (English): “Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Bremen Water Management Office, D28 Bremen, Bremen 1, Bleicherstrasse 25, Postfach 1022 "
- ^ Hans Dieter Bücken . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1981 ( online ).
- ↑ tlug-jena.de
- ↑ Former head of the water management office has died . Senate press office
- ^ Letter from the Senator for Building and Construction of January 8, 1980 to the Senate Chancellery.
- ↑ Working group of the federal states to keep the Weser clean , today Weser river basin community . Review of the work in the past. (No longer available online.) Fgg-weser.de, archived from the original on March 25, 2014 ; Retrieved November 18, 2012 .
- ↑ That the river is so sick ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1976 ( online ).
- ^ Status quo Lower Weser, water quality. klimu.uni-bremen.de, accessed on November 18, 2012 .