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• You prepare the necessary documents with the help of a specialist planner and submit them together with the notification.
• The competent authority examines your notification.
• The competent authority can prohibit the project within a certain prohibit the project or issue orders.
• Otherwise, you can carry out the project in the notified manner after the deadline has expired.
• You pay the administrative fee.

Please contact the responsible Structural and Approval Directorate North or South.

• Groundwater and the public water supply are not endangered by your use.
• This is the abstraction of groundwater for domestic use, farm use, watering livestock outside the farm or in small quantities for a temporary purpose.
• the use of the water supply facilities for the household or farm is not prescribed by the water supply authority's statutes
• a connection to the public water supply is not possible from an economic point of view

The documents you need for your application vary depending on the type and scope of your project. In a preliminary discussion with the responsible water authority, you can clarify which documents are required in your case.

As a rule, several or all of the following documents are required:

• Explanatory report
• Overview site plan as a topographical map in which the existing or planned facility is shown in color
• Current cadastral site plan in which the existing or planned installation is shown in color
• Information on the type of installation
• schematic representation of the facility in plan and section
• accompanying nature conservation planning, including entry in the compensation area register for new facilities
• If applicable: Technical contribution to the Water Framework Directive
• Proof of expertise

If the authority does not If the authority does not prohibit your project within a certain period of time or issues instructions, you can carry it out as notified.

• § Section 44 (1) of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Water Act (LWG)

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State Office for the Environment

01.12.2023