About Us
The Eifel-Rur Water Board (Wasserverband Eifel-Rur) treats domestic and industrial wastewater generated in the German Rur river basin—from the Northern Eifel to the Heinsberg region and from Aachen to Düren—at 43 wastewater treatment plants. This involves a total wastewater volume averaging between 125 and 130 million cubic meters. In connection with wastewater treatment, it also manages approximately 800 special structures such as stormwater retention basins and pumping stations. It also maintains 1,900 kilometers of waterways and performs flood protection tasks on flowing waterways. To this end, it operates, among other things, 53 flood retention basins.
In addition, it operates six dams in the Northern Eifel with a total storage capacity of approximately 300 million cubic meters, supports drinking water treatment in the region with its water reserves, and ensures the supply of process water to water-using industrial and commercial enterprises.
The association is headquartered in Düren and employs approximately 620 people. The association’s service area covers 2,087 km² and is home to approximately 1.1 million people.
Our Goals in KAHR 2.0
The project “Flood-Resilient Urban and Regional Development Inde/Vicht”, launched following the July 2021 flood event, generated numerous ideas for measures that could potentially contribute to increasing flood resilience. These measures were evaluated for their effectiveness in the context of various potential flood scenarios.
The investigations were conducted as part of the predecessor project KAHR, based on detailed watershed models for hydrology, hydraulics, and damage potential. The results obtained were analyzed, linked together, and formed the basis for the cost-benefit analysis as well as the prioritization of particularly effective measures. The influence of climate change on hydrological processes and the resulting need for measures was also taken into account.
Building on these results, the KAHR 2.0 project is implementing a new software solution. The goal is to process the results from the effectiveness studies of technical flood protection measures more quickly, visualize them in a way that is accessible to the public, and thereby accelerate the preliminary selection of structural measures. The aim is to eventually apply the software to the entire watershed of the water authority.
Contact Information
Dr. Gerd Demny
Eisenbahnstr. 5
52353 Düren
Telefon: +49 2402 494 1041
E-Mail:
Susanne Kozerke
Eisenbahnstr. 5
52353 Düren
Telefon: +49 2402 494 1066
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