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6 Prospects: Approaches of Integrated Management
The adjustment of the water management system in the Wesermarsch region to climateinduced changes should aim at an effective and efficient watering and drainage system. To
preserve the characteristics of the landscape as formulated in the development targets for
the Wesermarsch region, the development of these possibilities have to be intimately connected with the future use of the rural landscape and should not have a negative influence
on the environment. Finally, the concentration is set on two options:
• conveying fresh water from the Weser more upstream in the southern part of the county
of Wesermarsch and
• implementing the avoidance solution after the final approval of the currently planned
fairway deepening of the Weser
As the second solution option is going to be implemented when the fairway deepening
would have been approved, the preliminary most promising option for the watering problem seems to the so-called Master Plan Wesermarsch developed by the respective drainage
boards in the Northern part of the Wesermarsch.
The original idea of the Master Plan Wesermarsch was to improve the watering and
the drainage system of the northern part of the Wesermarsch. The envisaged improvement
should be benefiting for two major types of land use water management and agriculture.
The agriculture sector is the main driver for the improvement of the watering system. The
implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch should provide different positive effects
for them:
• getting fresh water into the agricultural used areas of the drainage boards of Butjadingen
and Stadland (and to some extent for Brake),
• enabling a continuously flushing of the ditches and canals to avoid standing water
bodies (deterioration of the water quality by, e.g., private sewage features),
• maintenance of the existing ecological status of the ditches and canals with fresh
(respectively brackish) water species for both flora and fauna,
• preservation of the existing NATURA 2000 sites in the county of Wesermarsch,
• preservation of the existing cultural landscape shaped by men in the last centuries.
The implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch will entirely contribute to the mission
of the drainage boards. Nevertheless, it is mainly concentrated on the watering problem
which is a special task of these drainage boards.
The current version of the Master Plan Wesermarsch has mainly been developed by
representatives of the agricultural sector, but the original idea is much older. The water
boards adopted this solution option, because, in the first draft, it provides benefits for the
drainage tasks of these boards. Politics took the idea of the Master Plan Wesermarsch over
and published information on funding issues via public press.
6 Prospects: Approaches of Integrated Management
The adjustment of the water management system in the Wesermarsch region to climateinduced changes should aim at an effective and efficient watering and drainage system. To
preserve the characteristics of the landscape as formulated in the development targets for
the Wesermarsch region, the development of these possibilities have to be intimately connected with the future use of the rural landscape and should not have a negative influence
on the environment. Finally, the concentration is set on two options:
• conveying fresh water from the Weser more upstream in the southern part of the county
of Wesermarsch and
• implementing the avoidance solution after the final approval of the currently planned
fairway deepening of the Weser
As the second solution option is going to be implemented when the fairway deepening
would have been approved, the preliminary most promising option for the watering problem seems to the so-called Master Plan Wesermarsch developed by the respective drainage
boards in the Northern part of the Wesermarsch.
The original idea of the Master Plan Wesermarsch was to improve the watering and
the drainage system of the northern part of the Wesermarsch. The envisaged improvement
should be benefiting for two major types of land use water management and agriculture.
The agriculture sector is the main driver for the improvement of the watering system. The
implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch should provide different positive effects
for them:
• getting fresh water into the agricultural used areas of the drainage boards of Butjadingen
and Stadland (and to some extent for Brake),
• enabling a continuously flushing of the ditches and canals to avoid standing water
bodies (deterioration of the water quality by, e.g., private sewage features),
• maintenance of the existing ecological status of the ditches and canals with fresh
(respectively brackish) water species for both flora and fauna,
• preservation of the existing NATURA 2000 sites in the county of Wesermarsch,
• preservation of the existing cultural landscape shaped by men in the last centuries.
The implementation of the Master Plan Wesermarsch will entirely contribute to the mission
of the drainage boards. Nevertheless, it is mainly concentrated on the watering problem
which is a special task of these drainage boards.
The current version of the Master Plan Wesermarsch has mainly been developed by
representatives of the agricultural sector, but the original idea is much older. The water
boards adopted this solution option, because, in the first draft, it provides benefits for the
drainage tasks of these boards. Politics took the idea of the Master Plan Wesermarsch over
and published information on funding issues via public press.