by Rex McCannThe nature reserves of the Igelsbachsee reservoir, the peninsula within the Kleiner Brombachsee, the Brombachmoor and the Sägmühle are also situated on the Brombachsee. The water level of the Kleiner Brombachsee, like that of the Igelsbachsee, which is fed by the second large tributary Igelsbach, is saved largely constant by a pre-dam. On the Eckersmühlen lock it is channeled from the upper water into the instantly neighboring Rothsee, a reservoir created within the Kleine Roth valley. The Danube-Main switch system contains a complete of three lakes, together with the Altmühlsee with a ring dam and two dams with Brombach and Rothsee, which include five dams resulting from their pre-dams, three hydroelectric energy plants at the dams and the Hilpoltstein lock, the canal routes to the Altmühlsee and from there to Brombachsee in addition to 27 other weirs on watercourses, a few of which have been expanded to accommodate larger water circulation. This water then flows by means of a power plant with three megawatts of electrical output at the Hilpoltstein lock with a head of 24.67 m. Since then, it has hosted a lot of Max Planck young research groups and Alexander von Humboldt scholarship holders and, with the School of Engineering, has been concerned in the two Excellence Initiative establishments that had been arrange at the College of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2004.
Since 1994, water has been pumped from the Danube to the highest of the canal using pumps on the 5 locks on the southern ramp of the canal, from where it flows downwards over one other barrage into the Rothsee, where the water is stored and, if essential, in two alternative ways can also be delivered to the Regnitz. This is done via a power plant with a design output of 630 kilowatts (two by way of-move turbines with 315 kW each). 9.0 m³/s can bypass the power plant. In addition, floodwater in the higher Altmühl close to Ornbau is diverted into the switch system, which is intended to protect the Altmühltal under from flooding. When the Altmühl floods, excess water is channeled into the 5 km lengthy Altmühl feeder close to Ornbau to the Altmühlsee. With out the addition, the Regnitz can carry lower than 10 m³/s of water on the Hüttendorf gauge in dry circumstances. With the Danube-Primary switch, the water management authorities of the Free State of Bavaria divert water from the Danube river system into the Regnitz and Main system in Franconia, which is threatened by short-term drought. There are additionally components and amenities of the primary-Danube Canal that concurrently serve different purposes: the canal itself between the connection to the Danube and the outlet into the Schwarzach, along with the inlet and outlet buildings, as effectively as the pumping stations on the south ramp.
While inside the identify Most important-Danube Canal the rivers inside the phrase correspond to the geographical association on the north-going through map, the term Danube-Essential transition reflects the circulation direction of the water pumped from the Danube and flowing towards the main. Its longest tributaries also move into this decrease section of its course, particularly the Schwarzach, formerly additionally the Sulz, which has now been reduce up ensuing from using its valley and water for the primary-Danube Canal and its predecessor, then the one which, to a certain extent, represents it today Canal itself and at last the Weiße Laber, all left-hand tributaries, whose great length and catchment area displays the rather more distant location of the left watershed to the Rhenish system in this area. This water will improve the water high quality of Regnitz and Most important, which has been affected by intensive industrial and agricultural use. This brought with it important restrictions on use and ecological dangers, e.g. B. for the removing of financial institution filtrate for irrigation of the Middle Franconian vegetable rising area, which only grew to become possible with the transfer, or by using cooling water, and so on. In the long run, an average annual transfer by means of all the system of 150 million m³ of water is predicted, 5/6 of that through the primary-Danube Canal. When water is low, water can be released from the lake back into the Altmühl, but as a rule it’s initially transported from the Altmühlsee by the 8.7 km lengthy Altmühl overpass, which crosses under the watershed in a tunnel over a distance of 2.7 km the Kleiner Brombachsee and from there into the instantly adjoining Großer Brombachsee.
Between 1995 and 2013, an average of 27.9 million had been bought this way each year. M³ of water over the water sheath was transferred, after the end of the set up, a mean of 26.5 million m³ have been transferred in 1999-2013 and 28.7 million m³ from the Brombachsee had been given, whereby eleven million m³ of extra inflow from the catchment area of the Brombach turns into. Within the years 1994-2013, a mean of ninety seven million m³ of water had been transferred to the Rothsee annually, the natural inflow of the small purple is approx. The character reserve runs about 2.6 kilometers alongside the south bank of the Großer Brombachsee, from the dam of the small Brombachsee To Ramsberg. The wasteland is located in the Franconian Seenland, 1.5 kilometers southwest of Pleinfeld on a forest edge. South bank of the great Brombachsee, about three kilometers northeast of Langlau and 2.2 kilometers northwest of Ramsberg close to the Weißenberg. Partly paid parking services are located on the sports boat port in Langlau and in Ramsberg. The pouch mill was positioned on the Brombach northeast of the Pfofeld district of Langlau and south of Absberg in the area of today's Kleiner Brombachsee (http://gg-tech.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=43&wr_id=140472).