Citizens' Campus: Water storage and flood protection at Thuringian dams

The Thuringian dams and flood retention basins built in the 20th century fulfill important tasks in the regulation and use of the water balance. The lecture explains the basics of dimensioning and controlling dams during high and low water. This is followed by an outline of the various areas of tension in dam management, which arise particularly in the case of dams with multiple uses.

Climate change is causing additional new challenges, and current observation data and climate forecasts for Thuringia's drinking water reservoirs are presented. In response, possible adaptation strategies for dam management to this new situation will be presented and discussed.

Speaker Markus Möller works as a specialist hydrologist at the Thuringian District Water Supply in Erfurt. He is involved in the further development of regulations in the German dam sector as part of his committee work for the Working Group on Drinking Water Dams (ATT). Mr. Möller is the German representative on the Technical Committee "Dams in a Changing Climate" at the International Commission on Dams.

Admission: 5 Euro