How the Steinbach Dam in the Hunsrück is being renovated
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A construction site as big as 2,000 Olympic swimming pools - this is the maximum amount of water that the Steinbach Dam in the Hunsrück can hold. In 1966, the 1.3-kilometer-long and 36-meter-deep dam was put into operation to supply the nearby town of Idar-Oberstein and the Birkenfeld district with drinking water. Half a century later, the asphalt surface of the dam wall urgently needed to be renovated. A specialist company from Switzerland was commissioned to remove and replace the layer of tar on the steep wall. To do this, the water level had to be lowered by two thirds. To ensure that the people of Idar-Oberstein and their neighbors were not left high and dry, a 32-kilometer-long pipeline costing 25 million euros was specially laid to pump drinking water from the Primstal Dam in Saarland. The pandemic and delivery problems for spare parts have delayed the end of the renovation. And so scientists from the nearby environmental campus in Birkenfeld had enough time to take a close look around the basin and track down a type of crab that was thought to be extinct in the region. Note: Unfortunately, we made a mistake in the text of the film: the asphalt work on the dam is referred to several times as "tarring". Although the word is still often used colloquially, the use of tar in road construction has actually been banned in Germany since 1984 and 1990 (in the east) because of its harmful effects on health. Since then, bitumen has been used as a binding agent. Of course, this also applies to the renovation of the Steinbach dam. We apologize for this error. For technical reasons, it is unfortunately not possible to correct the text here on YouTube. Subscribe to the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz channel at: http://x.swr.de/s/lsyt. Welcome to the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz YouTube channel. Highlights of our program await you here. Portraits, reports, documentaries, art, culture, advice! We have daily updates on the channel. Subscribe to us if you don't want to miss anything. More Landesschau: Official homepage: http://x.swr.de/s/129n Facebook: / landesschau More SWR Heimat: Instagram: / swrheimat #SWR #Landesschau #Steinbachtalsperre
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