The Planegger wave pool will remain closed for the time being.
It's not because of Corona, the low water level of the Würm worries those responsible.
Planegg
- The first inquiries about opening the bathing area on the Würm have reached the Planegger municipal administration.
People there are “cautious about saying when we will open,” says managing director Stefan Schaudig.
And further: “Certainly not before Pentecost.” Until then, there should be “a nice, fine downpour for a certain time.
That would be beneficial to the cause and nature.” The water level in the wave pool is currently around 30 to 40 centimeters below normal.
Schaudig speaks of a “high risk of injury”.
In the pool area, the water is sometimes only 50 centimeters deep.
Railings need to be installed
Signs indicate that jumping off the edge of the pool is prohibited, but not everyone obeys this.
However, if you jump or fall into the water in the current conditions, you run the risk of landing more than roughly.
In addition, the distance between the upper edge of the wooden deck at the edge of the pool and the water surface is sometimes more than 1.20 meters.
Schaudig: "We would have to install a railing on the wooden deck so that nobody falls in."
The wave pool cannot be compared to outdoor pools.
The bathing area, owned by the municipality opposite the town hall on Pasinger Straße, is free and very popular.
Before Corona, up to 400 visitors came on hot days.
There is no staff, no lifeguard and no entry controls.
Because there is no supervision, it is not an option for the municipality to make the lawns accessible, but to put up no-bathing signs.
The risk of liability in the event of non-compliance and a resulting accident is considered too great.
After all, signs are ignored every summer.
No improvement in the situation for the time being
“Lake Starnberg should fill up.
If the water level is low there, then it is also low in the Würm,” says Schaudig.
It is currently 113 centimeters at the Leutstetten measuring point.
Normal, according to Schaudig, is 125 to 150 centimeters.
"We haven't had so little water for a long time." The low water status report of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, which gives the average daily discharge of the Würm as well as the Isar, Ammer or Glonn the rating "low", calls the past winter half-year "too warm and clearly too dry in southern Bavaria".
There is talk of a “significantly too dry March”.
Conclusion: "Thus, at the beginning of May, especially in the area between the Alps and the Danube and on the Danube itself, low discharges prevail for the time of year.
In the first year of the pandemic, the Canada geese had the wave pool all to themselves.
The community was unable to take the risk of liability should a bather become infected with the corona virus.
In 2021, the outdoor pools in Bavaria were allowed to open at the beginning of the Whitsun holidays on the penultimate weekend in May.
Four weeks later, Planegg followed suit with the wave pool and appealed to the common sense of the bathers to adhere to the hygiene and behavior rules applicable at the time to protect against infection with SARS-CoV-2.
In 2022, the virus will no longer be the problem.
