Ophover Mühlenbach

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The Ophover mill creek is a about 4.6 km long right or northern tributary of Dhünn.

Course

The Ophover mill creek, also called Ophovener mill stream, rises in Meckhofen a new residential area in Leverkusen - Steinbuchel within a green area. It first flows in a southwesterly direction through a meadow landscape. When Bohofsweg the stream disappears into the ground, only to reappear at the surface when Mathildenhof. A little later he is dammed to a pond. Here he takes on the small Jüchbach. It flows through two other ponds in a park and is shortly thereafter fed by Fuskaulbach. The creek now reached the Ophovener pond, in which also the Driescher Bach opens. The Ophover mill creek crosses under the Oulusstraße and then the Herbert - Wehner - road. Its course is now piped underground. When Hermann Waibel street arm branches off from the Ophover mill stream, which fills the gap of Morsbroich Castle and then as connection Ophovener mill creek - drained Dhünn in the Dhünn. The main arm of the river happens sometimes brutalized and partly strongly straightened Leverkusen -Schlebusch to finally east of Karl- Carsten- ring zumünden in the Dhünn.

Pollution

In Water Quality Report 2001 of the Environmental Agency of North Rhine -Westphalia the Ophover mill creek is as critically polluted (class II -III) classified.

Inflows

Among the tributaries of the Ophover mill Bach are considered downstream

  • Jüchbach (right), 0.286 km
  • Fuskaulbach (left), 0.164 km
  • Driescher Bach ( right), 2.193 km
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