The implementation of the water laws in the course of an ordinance by the district office has sparked a lively debate about flood protection in the Langenbach municipal council.
Nevertheless, one has agreed.
Langenbach
- The water authority of the Freising District Office intends to regulate the determination of the floodplain on the Amper by issuing a new regulation.
Accordingly, Langenbach is largely a flood risk area.
According to maps, fields and meadows on the outskirts towards Haag and Inkofen are affected.
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The basis for the classification is the “flood discharge with a hundred-year discharge peak (HQ100)”, as stated in the procedure for issuing the ordinance.
At the said “HQ100”, also commonly known as the “hundred-year flood”, opinions were now divided in the Langenbach municipal council.
Josef Kratzer (FWO), fire brigade commander in Oberhummel, complained: “The centenarian is getting shorter and shorter.” In other words: the benchmark is being reached more and more frequently.
Major flood problems "man-made"
Martin Huber (UWL), meanwhile, feared that farmers and property owners could no longer be in control of their own land as a result of the settlements. Mayor Susanne Hoyer, who basically had “nothing to complain about” as she said, admitted that “certain restrictions” were possible. According to this, one cannot simply change something seriously, which would result in a deterioration in the terrain - measures that could, for example, damming or diverting water. In individual cases, to her knowledge, there have already been bans. Huber insisted: “It's important to me that people are also aware of it. I just wanted to have mentioned that there are obligations that come with it. "
Hoyer pointed out that "the big problems with floods are made by people".
That is why it is also the right way to tell people: "This is a floodplain."
In any case, she spoke out in favor of “formally approving” the implementation of the water laws.
In her opinion, there was nothing wrong with the determination.
Hoyer did not see a right to compensation brought into play by Josef Kratzer as a given.
More would have to happen than a mere determination, she argued.
Discussion about dam
Rudolf Götz (FWO) expressed his astonishment that the authorities are still "assuming the old HQ100". Actually something should change there. “The dam is no longer important,” concluded Götz - with the hint that it would have to be recalculated. In the process, he lacked compelling conclusions about the flood protection. With regard to the Amperdamm, Kratzer explained that one should be happy to still have it. On the Isar there are already considerations to open the dam at some point in order to give the water space. Walter Schmidt (FW), long-time Langenbach fire brigade commander, explained about the designated areas, "The lines correspond to the fact that the buildings themselves are not affected". In the end, everyone except Martin Huber agreed to the procedure in the form presented.