Mörlbach's connection comes earlier

Created: 08/18/2022, 16:58

By: Sandra Sedlmaier

Small house above, pressure line below: The pump house in Mörlbach is a visible sign of the forthcoming connection to the sewage treatment plant.

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The preparations for connecting Mörlbach to the sewage treatment plant in Starnberg are proceeding calmly and calmly.

The big construction site is expected to come next year.

The most important thing is already finished: the pump house and the pressure line to Farchach.

Mörlbach

– The new pump house is a visible sign of the forthcoming change in the Mörlbach sewer system.

Its construction and the new pressure line from Mörlbach to Farchach form the first construction phase for the sewer connection.

And with that, the most important thing is done: "With the pump house and the line to Farchach, we could switch off the sewage treatment plant at any time," says Michael Friedrich, Deputy Managing Director of the Lake Starnberg Wastewater Association.

"But then it would just be mixed water, and we don't want that."

Mörlbach still disposes of its water in a mixed system of rainwater and waste water in a pond treatment plant.

The District Attorney's Office has banned this practice.

There must be a two-channel system in Mörlbach by summer 2026 at the latest, and the waste water should then go to the sewage treatment plant in Starnberg.

The wastewater association is therefore planning to lay new sewers in Mörlbach - the old pipes are hardly usable, says the head of the wastewater association, Dr.

Stephanie Rapp-Fiegle.

The approximately 50 affected Mörlbach property owners also have to lay two channels on their properties: one for rainwater and one for waste water.

At the same time, the municipality of Berg wants to widen the Mörlbach and perhaps also lay a local heating network - all the ingredients for a large construction site.

If possible, this should take place in 2023, as the head of the wastewater association says.

"We are currently preparing the tender for the construction of the main sewer for waste water and rainwater," says Rapp-Fiegle.

After the call for tenders at the beginning of 2023, the work should start, so that the majority of the work will be completed by the end of the year.

Originally, the end of 2023 was also the deadline for the connection.

But that could be close, as became clear at the association meeting in the spring.

The district office had signaled that mid-2026 would still be okay.

But meanwhile, according to Friedrich, things are looking a little better in terms of time.

"We would like to be finished by the end of 2023," he emphasizes.

"If everything goes well, we can do it too." However, the experiences that the wastewater association made with the sewage system in Hanfeld, for example, showed that things don't always run smoothly.

There, the sewer works dragged on for a long time, there were many problems.

Mörlbach does not currently look like a "Hanfeld II", as Friedrich puts it.

The association has received all the easements it needs, says Friedrich.

In the past, property negotiations have been quite difficult.

The property owners are also prepared so far, says Rapp-Fiegle.

Their channels were traveled over by the sewage association with a camera.

They now had plans in hand that they could use to commission their own sewer work.