Altenerding - The citizens' initiative near-natural flood protection has sharply criticized the decision of the Erdingen city council against mobile protective walls along the Sempt and announces resistance.
With concrete foundations for mobile flood protection, the residents of Sempt and the members of the Citizens' Initiative (BI) near-natural flood protection could just have lived.
But, as is well known, the city council has just rejected this variant.
Now it comes down to walls up to 1.50 meters high between the river and Landgerichtstrasse - although these could be greened, sloped down and planted.
BI is disappointed by the city and the water management office. Your speakers announce resistance on several levels. “We have lost trust,” says Christian Veicht. Rainer Hörl annoys the ignorance: "All suggestions that we make are dismissed as amateur." Toni Bichlmeier says disillusioned: "We no longer feel any tailwind." Veicht recalls the 5,000 signatures that the BI in the autumn mayor Max Gotz (CSU) for the near-natural flood protection, 3700 of them from Erding. "Ten percent of the city's population have made a clear commitment, but nobody cares," complains Bichlmeier.
The BI resents the OB for having declared in the city council meeting on Tuesday that by submitting a petition to the state parliament, his negotiating mandate had been destroyed (we reported).
“Either he said that on purpose, or he confuses our petition with that of the Berghamer,” says Veicht and clarifies: “We have not yet submitted our petition.” But now they have no other choice: “We will address the Turn the Landtag. "
Not only that. Hörl announces its own report, "which examines our proposals and questions those of the water management office".
Legal counsel was also taken.
"We have to increase the pressure now," says Bichlmeier.
They accuse Gotz of breaking their word, having stated categorically several times that he would never agree to a wall being built along the Sempt to prevent flooding. Josef Stimmer blames Gotz for hiding and blaming all of the blame for the messy situation of BI and the parliamentary groups, which wrote to Environment Minister Thorsten Glaubert (FW) asking for a different solution than the one with the walls of the water management office. Because Glauber had strengthened the line of his authority. Gotz deduced from this that the city's negotiating mandate had been weakened, if not nullified.
The WWA criticizes Hörl, "because it is only pursuing its solution and does not even want to check others". Specifically, the residents of Sempt mean local support, for example through the Pretzen basin, which was discussed in 2007. “The 500,000 cubic meters would be enough to break the top of a flood wave,” he is convinced. Because the removal of the wall automatically means the loss of the old and valuable trees on the banks of the Sempt. For tuners it is little consolation that new plantings are planned afterwards. "It takes forever."
Hörl and Bichlmeier also do not understand why Sempt, which continues to silt up, is not finally being dredged.
The latter says: “There should be no prohibitions on thinking.” Veicht is more specific: “One could consider dismantling the shredder mill.
Because between this weir and the Lukasmühle the Sempt hardly has any flow velocity, which leads to more and more deposits. "
BI sees the Ardeo bridge as the greatest obstacle in the event of a disaster.
The WWA wants to keep it.
Stimmer remembers “that the bridge was dammed 30 centimeters during the flood in 2013.” Bichlmeier is also convinced: “The bridge has no freeboard.” Without an improvement, all measures would be superfluous.
Veicht asks himself a completely different question: "I fundamentally doubt the calculations of the flood wave by the State Office for the Environment." But the wall planning is based on this.
"Unfortunately we don't get any documents to check that."
BI's doubts are also fed by the city council's surprisingly publicized assessment of the building yard and fire brigades that in the event of a disaster they would not be able (temporally) to set up the mobile protective walls quickly.
Veicht found out that the ratings had already been submitted at the end of 2019 - without informing BI.
Stimmer fears “that Altenerding will now be disfigured.
This is our home ”.
She only threatens to be sacrificed because “we can't think of anything else”.
