Show direct discharge of precipitation water into water bodies

• You prepare the necessary documents with the help of a specialist planner and submit them together with the notification.
• The competent authority examines your notification.
• It may prohibit the project or issue orders within a certain period of time.
• Otherwise, you can carry out the project in the manner notified once the deadline has expired.
• You pay the administrative fee.

Please contact the responsible Structural and Approval Directorate North or South.

• The harmfulness of the precipitation water is kept as low as possible according to the state of the art.
• The discharge is compatible with the requirements for water characteristics and other legal requirements.
• If necessary, systems or other facilities are installed and operated in order to comply with these requirements.
• The precipitation water comes from low-polluted areas, for example outside industrial areas or roads with more than two lanes.
• The discharge point is located outside of protected areas, springs or bodies of water in very good ecological condition.

• Display
• Calculations on the load and need for treatment of the precipitation water
• Hydrogeological report (for infiltration)
• Description, illustration, dimensioning of the infiltration system
• Proof that infiltration is not possible (for discharge into surface waters)
• Details, illustration and mathematical proof of the required rainwater retention facility
• General plan
• Site plan
• Extract from the cadastral map
• Drawing of the structure or facility
• Accompanying nature conservation planning, including entry in the compensation area register for new facilities
• Technical contribution to the Water Framework Directive
• Certificate of expertise

• § Section 22 (2) of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Water Act (LWG)

Contradiction

State Office for the Environment

01.12.2023