Lower Saxon State Department for Waterway, Coastal and Nature Conservation
The Lower Saxon Department for Water, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) (German: Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz) is a department of the state of Lower Saxony, with its headquarters in Norden (Ostfriesland) and is responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Climate Protection.
Departements
[edit]NLWKN is structured in relatively independend departements for different services at Norden, Hanover and Lüneburg:
- Operation and maintenance of state-owned facilities and bodies of water, combating pollutant accidents, based in Norden
- Planning and construction of water management systems, based in Norden
- River basin management, state hydrological service, radiological monitoring, based in Norden
- General administration, finance, human resources, based in Norden
- Regional nature conservation, based in Hanover
- State-wide nature conservation, based in Hanover
- Allgemeine Verwaltung, Finanzen, Personal, Sitz in Norden
- Water management legislation, based in Lüneburg
- Landesweiter Naturschutz, Sitz in Hannover
- Coastal Research Center, based in Norden, formely in Norderney
NLWKN services
[edit]- national flood reporting service in the catchment areas of the Weser, Aller and Leine
- national storm surge warning service for the Lower Saxon coast
- current water level data (gauge measurements) for the Weser and Ems
External links
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