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Flood / flood protection
Service Description
Flood protection concerns everyone. In areas where flooding can occur, all citizens should know what to do in an emergency.
What can be done?
Inform
What can be done?
Inform
- Informing about one's own risk, e.g. by means of flood hazard maps (http://www.tlug-jena.de/hwrm/)
- Radio, television (weather/storm warnings)
- MDR videotext (panels 535, 536)
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Internet (https://hnz.thueringen.de/hw2.0/)
- Mobile app "my gauges" and "my environment"
React
- operational and private precautionary measures (e.g., constructive measures to keep surface water away from the building, such as ramps and terrain embankments, avoidance of building openings at ground level, raising the tops of basement light wells, installation of pressurized water-tight doors and windows)
- operational and private flood protection in the event of an incident (e.g. clearing basements, securing oil tanks, sealing windows and doors against water ingress, sealing drainage facilities against backwater)
- Consider self-protection in the event of an incident: there is a risk of drowning when standing near overflowing waters and inside flooded buildings (e.g. doors opening inwards in flooded rooms can no longer be opened above certain flood heights - there is a risk of drowning in basement rooms in particular). In addition, there is a risk of electric shock when entering flooded rooms.
- Further protective measures (e.g. clearing the first floor, evacuation)
- Observe instructions of the emergency services (e.g. during evacuations).
- Supporting the emergency services and helping neighbors
special notes for kreisfreie Stadt Erfurt
As the lower disaster control authority, the Erfurt Fire Department is responsible for the planning, organization and implementation of hazard prevention, e.g. in the event of:
- Extreme weather situations
- Technical disasters such as risks in passenger and freight traffic
- Floods
- Threats to critical infrastructure such as power supplies
The responsible employees are contact persons in questions of help for self-help or precaution for the case of disaster.
Who should I contact?
Flood warning and reporting service:
Flood Message Center (HNZ) of the Thuringian State Office for Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation in Jena:
- Data collection, processing and forwarding, issuing flood warnings and flood information with presentation on the Internet.
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Central control centers of the counties and independent cities, affected cities and municipalities:
Information of the population
Hazard prevention (water defense):
Cities and municipalities at risk from flooding must set up a water defense service.
Cities and municipalities at risk from flooding must set up a water defense service.
Defense against supralocal dangers (disaster control):
Counties and independent cities after determining and announcing the disaster situation.
Counties and independent cities after determining and announcing the disaster situation.
What else should I know?
special notes for kreisfreie Stadt Erfurt
Legal basis:
According to §§ 26 and 27 of the Thuringian Fire and Disaster Protection Act, the counties and independent cities are responsible for disaster protection.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
special notes for kreisfreie Stadt Erfurt
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian State Office for the Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation
Professionally released on
20.01.2020
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Thüringer Landesamt Umwelt, Bergbau und Naturschutz
Address
Göschwitzer Str. 41
07745 Jena
07745 Jena
Further Authorities
Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Stadtverwaltung - Amt für Brandschutz, Rettungsdienst und Katastrophenschutz
Visiting address
St.-Florian-Straße 4
99092 Erfurt
99092 Erfurt
