Kelheim’s Water Maintenance Association faces major restructuring amid shrinking membership
The Water Maintenance Association (WMA) in Kelheim County is undergoing a significant realignment due to increasing complexities in its extensive area. This comes after 36 municipalities voted for the WMA's continuation, with no association fee charged until the realignment is complete.
The WMA, responsible for third-order waters between several rivers, has seen its membership reduce to 16 municipalities as the local landscape maintenance association takes over water maintenance in the county. The WMA's budget for the current year stands at 607,150 euros in the administrative budget and 251,100 euros in the asset budget.
Following many years of successful cooperation, engineering firm Dietlmeier has completed its activities with the WMA. Long-standing managing director Klaus Weindl will retire after completing unsettled measures in construction sections 10 and 48. Chairman Josef Klaus, also the mayor of Niederaichbach, will take over Weindl's tasks within his municipal administration. However, no information is available about the engineering firm that will take over the WMA's tasks in the future.
If the WMA continues, remaining member municipalities will again be charged an administrative and construction fee. Only parts of the WMA's association area can adopt the 'Regensburg model', where established landscape maintenance associations take over the WMA's tasks. The realignment aims to better manage the WMA's extensive area and complex tasks.
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