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Plannings and realisations:
Since the 14.04.2008 there is
the following planning of the
Watermaintance collective Schunter as employer and the
Niedersächsischen Landesbetriebes für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten und
Naturschutz (Country office for water economy, coast- and
nature-conservation for lower-saxony - NLWKN) being built up : a rock
fishway replaces the weir (picture on the left below) and dissipates the
incline towards the L 290 ab. The mill channel is being closed by a dam.
Thus the whole discharge will flow down the new fishway and the so-called "Hilmarchute",
a small natural riverbed that developed about 3 years ago. This is the best
solution for all water-bound creatures und thus a big step for the efforts
of salmon-reintroduction in the river Schunter. So far there was now fishway
at this place. In the
map of the area , that was provided by the NLWKN
the planning is detailed to be seen.
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Personal notice 17.04.2008:
In the meantime the waterright,
that is neccessary to trade the mill, has been released so that
fish-losses as documetet below are history. The damage of only one day at
that place that ist shown on the picture makes clear that engery out of
hydropower is not purely environmentally acceptable.
Personal notice 23.10.02:
The mill channel (picture on the left above) is
often run dry - Statement of the operator: malfunction. Upstream large
areas then fell dry. In spring 2002 for the first time there were found
young salmon-smolts that were killed by the turbine. So far the weir
that is about 2,5 meters high (picture below) hinders any kind of migration. |
