The people who live along the water vein have known that the Hachinger Bach cannot be trusted since people settled here. In 1850, according to the local chronicles of Unterhaching, the little brook, which had swollen to a torrent, carried away a whole heap of dung along with the chickens sitting on it. In 1940, large parts of the community were under water, and the neighbors in Taufkirchen also got wet. century flood.
However, one cannot rest on the laurels of the fact that, statistically speaking, such floods only occur every hundred years. On the one hand, that doesn’t mean that the flood can only be expected after this period of time and that you might not experience it at all. River straightening, a lack of flood plains and more frequent heavy rainfall events as a result of climate change have also increased the risk of flooding on rivers and streams. The residents rightly call for suitable protection against threatening water masses, especially on the lower reaches of the watercourses, for example when continuous rain is forecast or a thunderstorm appears as a super cell over the valley. The danger can hardly be banished on your own, on the river you are dependent on the help of your neighbors.
This has long been recognized at the Hachinger Bach and the intermunicipal cooperation has been invoked again and again. However, nothing happened that could somehow calm down the people on the lower reaches. Instead, everyone is relying on another study that has been a long time coming for four years. It may be that the calculations are really complicated. But due to increasing storm events with sometimes high amounts of precipitation is not the time to excuse missing study results. The impending flood does not wait for the hundredth expertise.
So it’s no wonder that Neubiberg has announced that it will go it alone. The water management office no longer wants to watch the gossip and has now taken the initiative to bring everyone back to the table. Initially, this is nothing more than a resumption of talks. But maybe then it will become clear: If action is not finally taken now, the next century water will definitely be there sooner than the next study.