The fire brigade and teachers' house are regularly affected by heavy rain
Created: 10/02/2022, 10:00 am
By: Andrea Kästle
In the municipality of Icking, there is a risk of flooding if it rains for a long time.
© Photo: Hermsdorf-Hiss
When it rains heavily, Icking is often under land.
The fire brigade and the teacher's house are particularly affected.
Action must be taken quickly.
Icking
– The municipality of Icking has known for a long time that it has a huge problem with rainwater.
There aren't enough opportunities for it to drain away.
At the most recent meeting of the municipal council, Mayor Verena Reithmann (UBI) named two other "hot spots" that urgently needed action.
In both cases, one cannot wait until the necessary rainwater channel is built.
The number one focal point is the fire station in Icking, where, during heavy rain events, the water "builds up via the waste water channel in the vehicle hall and the sanitary room", as the head of the town hall reported.
"I would be happy," she said, "if that had happened only twice this year" - when it hardly ever rained anyway." The problem is that the rain in the upper Icking inevitably flows into the sewer.
At the bottom of the B11, it then pushes the water out of the gully again.
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The community, which has been aware of the problem for some time, originally planned to install a backwater valve.
We have now moved away from that.
A lifting station, which is provided with a pressure loop above the backflow level, should now remedy the situation.
Cost point: 50,000 euros.
As a result, Reithmann conceded, “a lot of money was invested in the wrong place”.
Because the actual fight against the causes, on which the municipality is also working, is the rainwater sewer in the upper town.
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The second focal point is the teachers' residence on the school grounds.
Here it is the same as with the fire department.
When it rains a lot, the well fills up and the water doesn't flow away, but is pushed up all the more.
The idea here is to divert the water over the kindergarten property in the direction of Talberg.
Meanwhile, the municipality has commissioned a planner to develop a water concept for Icking.
An attempt should be made to hold back the water at the top and then gradually divert it downwards towards the Isar.
The concept may be presented in October.
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