Caption

Oberhausen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Emscher conversion, new Emscher AKE sewer, here the new Oberhausen pumping station, engine room with the pumps. Germany's largest wastewater pumping station uses 10 pumps to pump up to 16, 500 litres of wastewater per second from a depth of around 40 metres. The ecological conversion of the Emscher system consists of the construction of a central wastewater treatment system in the Ruhr region, the construction of sewers and the renaturalisation of the Emscher and its tributaries

Date

May 26, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25C77_136

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124,8Mb (4,8Mb) / 18,0in x 27,0in / 5394 x 8087 (300dpi)

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