Stadtwerke Gießen AG (SWG) and the municipality of Buseck have agreed on their future cooperation in the area of water supply in Buseck. This agreement guarantees a forward-looking and comprehensive supply partnership for the next ten years. Last Tuesday, Buseck's Mayor, Erhard Reinl, and Gerhard Hackel, First Alderman of the municipality of Buseck, together with the Chairman of the Board of Stadtwerke Gießen, Manfred Siekmann, and the Technical Director, Reinhard Paul, finalised the contract to support the Buseck water supply.
With the conclusion of the contract, Stadtwerke Giessen will in future supply water to the existing water supply to the municipality of Buseck. The aim of this co-operation is to continue to secure the water supply for Großen Buseck. The previous main supply well for Großen Buseck, the "Scheidemühle" deep well, is very limited in its capacity due to progressive clogging. It was extremely important for Buseck to secure a second mainstay in the area of water supply. After all, no other foodstuff is as precious as drinking water.
For more than 5 years, the municipality of Buseck has been concerned with securing the drinking water supply for its largest district, Großen Buseck, in the long term. The Buseck municipal works had to decide between drilling a new deep well and purchasing water from a third party. An economic feasibility study was commissioned to help make the decision. The result showed a slight advantage in favour of drilling a new deep well. However, this was only from the point of view that a first test well would already lead to success. However, the two plant managers, graduate engineer Eckhard Körber and Dirk During, decided in favour of external procurement. The reason for this was the guarantee of water quality and the improved security of supply for the entire Großen-Buseck area. In the event of an extraction system failure or a malfunction, Buseck can obtain an entire day's reserve from SWG. The water is pumped directly from Oppenrod to Großen-Buseck into the Galgenberg elevated tank via a pressure booster system with corresponding control and telecontrol technology. If necessary, an emergency supply to the Oppenrod local network is also possible. The technical and organisational parameters were agreed and optimised in several meetings between the management of the Buseck municipal works and graduate engineer Peter Keller, head of the SWG water systems department. The municipal utilities plan to supply drinking water from Queckborn to Buseck as early as October this year. The cool water is to reach the elevated tank via a short connection to the pump pipeline. SWG is investing around 80 thousand euros in this construction project. The Giessen-based energy and water supplier expects to supply at least 30 thousand cubic metres of water to Buseck every year.