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04/23/2019 | Campus-Meldung

University creates "Salt Master Plan

At the beginning of the year, the Department of Urban Water Management (FG SWW) was commissioned by the Hessian Ministry of the Environment to prepare the "Salt Reduction Master Plan". This master plan forms the basis for the detailed management plan and the program of measures "Salt" 2021 to 2027 for the river basin district Weser and is being prepared in cooperation with, among others, the Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management of the University of Leipzig.

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Felmeden.

The focus of the investigations is on the development and evaluation of technical measures and scenarios to reduce salt pollution in the Werra and Weser rivers caused by the saline wastewater discharges of K+S Kali GmbH. The activities in this regard are to be completed by the end of 2019. This project was acquired thanks to the expertise of V.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Felmeden, who has been head of the FG SWW in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an acting professor since October 1, 2018.

Felmeden already worked as a research assistant at the FG SWW from 2004 to 2009, preparing, among other things, his doctoral thesis on retention soil filter systems, which he subsequently completed in 2013. From 2007 to 2014, Felmeden was a research associate at the Frankfurt Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in the research area "Water Infrastructure and Risk Analyses", before subsequently working for the Kassel branch of the engineering firm COOPERATIVE Infrastruktur und Umwelt. The focus of his work includes the transformation of water infrastructure systems as well as the topic of sector coupling, which is increasingly discussed under climate policy aspects.