Wasserschutzgebiet- Festsetzung

In order to protect drinking water extraction plants and their catchment areas from adverse effects, water protection areas may be established. Within these areas, certain acts which may endanger groundwater are prohibited or certain precautions must be observed. Water conservation areas are regularly subdivided into zones I, II and III with varying levels of protection requirements. Within the areas closer to the drinking water extraction plant, stricter bans apply than in the more distant ones. In the water conservation area, the safeguarding of drinking water takes precedence over all other uses, up to and down to the total prohibition, if this is necessary to achieve the protection objective.

• Stimulation (informal application) for the establishment of a water protection area
• Hydrogeological assessment, site plans, draft regulation, water law evidence

free of charge

• Land Office for Agriculture and the Environment (LUNG): Receipt of the application, which must be seen in the sense of an encouragement and must be made informally; Check for completeness, transfer to the lower water authority
• Lower Water Authority: Examination of basic conditions, transfer to the State Office for the Environment and Nature (StALU)
• StALU: Conduct of the consultation procedure in accordance with Section 73 of the Administrative Procedure Act MV
• Ministry of Agriculture and environment (supreme water authority): determination of the water protection area (by legal regulation)

approx. 2.5 years

Establishment of a water conservation area

• Lower water authorities at the counties and independent cities (local and factual responsibility)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Nature (highest water authority) (general issues)