Lower Saxon State Department for Waterway, Coastal and Nature Conservation
The Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency (NLWKN ) is a Lower Saxon State Office, based in the north, which is subordinated to the Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
Formation
As one of the youngest federal authorities NLWKN created on 1 January 2005 from the merger of several previously independent national authorities:
- State Company for Water and Coastal Protection
- State Agency for Ecology
- Departments of Conservation and Water Management of the four 2004 resolved district governments (Weser -Ems, Hannover, Lüneburg and Braunschweig).
The state of Lower Saxony concentrated by this merging its national tasks of water management and nature conservation in a decentralized regional authority that was henceforth bound to no more administrative boundaries.
Organization
The Directorate of NLWKN is located in the town of Norden. Here, the strategic functions of the Authority are processed. The technical tasks on site are implemented in the operating units. These are scattered throughout Lower Saxony and enable a regional presence: Aurich, Brake -Oldenburg, Cloppenburg, Hannover -Hildesheim, Lüneburg, Meppen, north - Norderney, Stade, Sulingen, South (Braunschweig and Göttingen ) and Verden.
Divisions
In the name of the State Authority to reflect the assigned tasks: Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Protection.
The NLWKN is divided into seven divisions. They are led by business managers who are based in the north, Hanover, Lüneburg:
- Operation and maintenance of state-owned facilities and waters, spillage incident, based in the north
- Planning and construction of water management systems and water bodies, based in the north
- River basin management, Gewässerkundlicher State service, radiological monitoring, based in the north
- Regional Conservation, based in Hannover
- General Administration, Finance, Human Resources, based in the north
- Water management approval process, based in Lüneburg ( see also water rights )
- Statewide Conservation, based in Hannover
Significant investments
- Elbe-Weser waterway
- Ems - Jade Canal
- Haren- Ruetenbrock channel
- Thülsfelder dam
- Abbenflethsperrwerk at Bützfleth
- Emssperrwerk at Gandersum
- Hunte barrage at Elsfleth
- Ilmenau barrage at Winsen
- Ochtumsperrwerk at Lemwerder
- Ruth power barrage at Drochtersen
- Lühesperrwerk in Grunendeich
- Rocker barrage at Stade
- Barrage Freiburg in Freiburg / Elbe
- Barrage wiping wiping harbor at Port