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Press release No. 433 of 11 October 2022 Number of accidents involving water-hazardous substances decreased once again in 2021
1,979 accidents involving water-hazardous substances were registered in Germany in 2021. The number of such accidents thus fell once again from a year earlier (-2.2%), reaching the lowest level recorded since the start of the time series. 16.1 …
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Date: September 30, 2022 Water management
Tables on the subject: Regular inspection duties and and predominant type of construction, by intended use of the facilities.
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Press release No. 583 of 17 December 2021 Almost one third of installations for handling water-hazardous substances inspected in 2020 had defects
In 2020, technical or regulatory defects were found with just under a third (30.9%) of the 248,070 installations for handling water-hazardous substances inspected in all of Germany. Included were petrol filling stations, storage facilities, filling …
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Press release No. 438 of 16 September 2021 Accidents involving water-hazardous substances in 2020 at lowest level since 2010
In 2020, 2,023 accidents involving water-hazardous substances were registered in Germany. Compared with the previous year, this was a decrease of 14.0% in the number of accidents, and the lowest level since 2010. The Federal Statistical Office …
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Press release No. 036 of 27 January 2021 Three quarters of municipal sewage sludge were incinerated in 2019, one quarter was reused
In 2019, the quantity of disposed sewage sludge from municipal waste water treatment plants in Germany remained nearly unchanged at 1.74 million tonnes of dry matter compared with the previous year. This was a decrease of 0.4% compared with the 2018 …
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Press release No. 405 of 14 October 2020 Two thirds of the installations for handling water-hazardous substances inspected in 2019 were free of defects
In 2019, inspections of 254,152 installations for handling water-hazardous substances, such as oil heating systems, petrol filling stations and biogas plants, showed that well over two thirds (171,433) were free of defects. The Federal Statistical …
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Press release No. 479 of 12 December 2019 2018: 9% more municipal sewage sludge incinerated than in 2017
In 2018, the quantity of incinerated sewage sludge from municipal waste water treatment plants in Germany increased by roughly 100,000 tonnes to 1.3 million tonnes. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of …
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Press release No. 447 of 21 November 2019 Oil heating systems subject to inspection: roughly 4,000 more systems decommissioned than commissioned in 2018
In 2018, 13,636 oil heating systems subject to inspection were decommissioned in Germany and 9,662 oil heating systems were commissioned after inspection. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that 3,974 more oil heating systems …
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Date: September 4, 2019 Water management
Tables on the subject: Regular inspection duties and and predominant type of construction, by intended use of the facilities.
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Date: September 4, 2019 Water management
Tables on the subject: Regular inspection duties and and predominant type of construction, by intended use of the facilities.
