Wastewater in the Vechte: Half-Hearted Measures Are Not up to Date

By David Hausfeld In recent years, a considerable amount of untreated wastewater has flowed down the Vechte River. During persistent rain in Nordhorn, dirty rainwater and domestic wastewater from a good 15,000 residents, together from so-called combined sewers, reach a bottleneck at the Beethovenstrasse pumping station. Instead of being channeled to the sewage treatment plant, some of the dirty and polluted water ends up untreated in the Vechte …