An essential Basic to compliance the duties, Erftverband explores and controls the water supply proportions in his field of responsibility. This comparises discharge measurements in the water bodies, condition controls of ground water and surface water, continuously determination of precipitation and regeneration of ground water as well as a detailed registration of water volume.
Discharge of River Erft and its tributary rivers is monitored at 15 water gauges of the Erftverband and 13 own by the region. As a Basic for monitoring the ground water level exist a grid of nearly 15.000 measuring points and Erftverband is managing more than 2.000 by itself.
Erftverband is a modern service company. 500 employees perceive the following duties:
Exploration and Monitorting of Water Supply Proportions in conjunction with brown coal mining.
Control of Ground Water Level
Arrangements to assure Water Supply of Populatioin and Economy
Adjustment of prejudical ecological Variations
Maintenance of Surface Water Bodies Flood Control.
Reduction from developed Surface Water Bodies into a close to nature condition.
Avoiding prejudical variations of Surface Water.
Wastewater Treatment and Sewage Sludge Disposal as well as Reconstruction, Maintenance and Operation of Sewerage Systems.