Chairman Ferdinand Heilgenthal and his deputy Reiner Mehrlich had good news for the general meeting of the citizens’ initiative water, which met outdoors at the Vogt estate in Hofgartenweg because of the pandemic. After more than four years, the Main-Spessart District Office issued the decision on July 26th, which obliges the Fernwasserversorgung Mittelmain (FWM) association to dismantle the six deep wells in the field corridor.
In between there were countless postponements and allegedly planned meetings which, from Heilgenthal’s point of view, helped the FWM to gain time: ?? The facts and the requirement for dismantling were already established over four years ago, which is why the FWM committed itself to the facilities at the time to be dismantled by 2022 at the latest. With the issuance of the decision, nothing stands in the way of this, also from a formal legal point of view.
The chairman called the story of the Hofstetten deep wells a “flawless scandal”. Explorations were carried out as early as the 1960s and six deep wells were drilled in 1980/81 that never went into regular operation. The pumping attempt in 2000 turned into a disaster because the groundwater level in the orchards and in the fields sank by up to ten meters and the local well in the city of Gemünden dried up.
According to the current plant manager Eva von Vietinghoff-Scheel, the project was financed almost entirely by tax money with 15 million marks. Although the FWM has until the end of the month to appeal against the decision, Heilgenthal believes that the story will now come to an orderly conclusion.
After all, the decision-makers and those responsible include the plant managers Eva von Vietinghoff-Scheel and Alexander Pfenning with the association’s chairman, District Administrator Thomas Eberth (Würzburg district) and his deputy Dirk Rieb (2nd Mayor of Lohr), the Association Councilors, District Administrator Thomas Bold (Bad Kissingen). , District Administrator Sabine Sitter (Main-Spessart) and Würzburg’s Lord Mayor Christian Schuchardt, as well as District and City Councilors Patrick Bindrum (Bad Kissingen), Heiko Menig (District Würzburg) and Karin Miethaner-Vent (Würzburg).
?? With the best will in the world, I cannot imagine that this concentrated municipal political competence would want to continue to put off. It would also lead to a lack of understanding among the general public and to discussions that would damage the credibility of politics as a whole. If nothing more were added to the dozen or so files in our club archive, we would all be happy ??, said chairman Heilgenthal in conclusion.
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