As expected, the cleaning campaign of the “Unfairmüll” initiative from Langenpreising along the Strogen last Saturday below the Wartenberg sewage treatment plant caused quite a stir.
"Unfairmüll" had suspected that the recent flood would have simply overloaded the sewage treatment plant (we reported).
The congregation has now commented on it.
FROM KLAUS KUHN
Wartenberg / Langenpreising - On Monday, the building, environment and transport committee of the Wartenberg municipal council dealt with this topic.
Mayor Christian Pröbst emphasized, among other things, that the sewage treatment plant had been built in accordance with the applicable guidelines and the requirements of the water management office.
The initiative had never denied this either.
Nevertheless, the town hall chief made it clear that he was pissed off.
The disgusting finds came from the Wartenberg sewage treatment plant, and the pressure to justify them was accordingly.
The mayor confirmed what the Langenpreisingen deputy town hall Leo Melerowitz had already said: Technically, there is almost no other way when such an extreme flood occurs.
Pröbst: "No sewage treatment plant in the world can withstand such floods!"
The problem is a technical one: with such a volume of water, the biology in the sewage treatment plant would get so mixed up that the cleaning performance could not be performed again for weeks.
That is why there are restraint systems and overflow structures, also in Wartenberg.
With what happened at the end of August, however, all these precautions were overburdened.
The meeting was about the facilities in Wartenberg.
So-called storage canals have been built there, ultimately underground retention basins, which are created because the sewer pipes with a diameter of 1.4 meters can catch a lot.
There are four overflow structures.
Lisa Gadenne-Wurzbacher from the “Unfairmüll” initiative asked our newspaper to retrofit the sewage treatment plant, but immediately got a rebuff from Melerowitz in Langenpreisingen.
The suction was too strong during the floods in summer, so that doesn't make any sense.
Nevertheless, what the initiative found in the trees and made it public is so disgusting that the need for action cannot be overlooked.
At the meeting, Pröbst indicated what Melerowitz, as, incidentally, had repeatedly emphasized in the past, former Mayor Peter Deimel: hygiene articles of all kinds have no place in the toilet.
They are not only "pump killers" (Deimel), but also put a strain on the rake at the sewage treatment plant.
The “Unfairmüll” initiative has now followed up by demonstrating that the popular wet wipes do not dissolve, like toilet paper, for example: they are ultimately made of plastic.
Environmental officer Dominik Rutz raised another point.
Such pollution as along the strogen can technically only happen if rain and dirty water are discharged in the same canal.
So Rutz called for more infiltration options to be pushed in the future.
A separation system in which rainwater and dirty water are diverted separately, and as Rutz also brought up into the discussion, would be so expensive that Pröbst immediately declined.
"Then you would have to build a second canal everywhere."