In the Environmental Office of the City of Wolfsburg, the Lower Soil Protection Authority (UBB) ensures the implementation of and compliance with soil protection legislation. Its tasks include:

• Recording and evaluation of old deposits and old sites
• Maintaining the register of contaminated sites
• Providing information from the register of contaminated sites
• Informing and advising property owners, planners and other authorities on dealing with contaminated sites and harmful soil changes
• Carrying out and ordering investigations to assess the risk of contaminated sites
• Implementation and ordering of remediation measures for contaminated sites
• Monitoring the placement of materials (e.g. soil material, dredged material) on or in the soil
• Preventive soil protection

Waste deposits

According to the Federal Soil Protection Act, contaminated sites are old deposits and old sites that cause contamination of soil and groundwater. This can be caused by the improper treatment, storage or dumping of waste and the improper handling of environmentally hazardous substances.

These are decommissioned waste disposal facilities (former landfills). Contaminated sites are, for example, plots of land of disused commercial and industrial operations (e.g. former gas stations or dry cleaners) where environmentally hazardous substances such as gasoline or cleaning agents have been handled.

Contaminated sites can have a significant impact on the value and current and future usability of land. These range from increased disposal costs for contaminated excavated earth to extensive, cost-intensive remediation measures for immediate hazard prevention.

Locations in Lower Saxony

The locations of the old landfills in Lower Saxony can be viewed via the following link.

Current, reliable data on facilities and suspected contaminated sites in the city area are recorded by the Lower Soil Protection Authority in the Environmental Agency of the City of Wolfsburg (see Contaminated Sites Register).

The Lower Soil Protection Authority of the City of Wolfsburg maintains a register of contaminated sites in which all known contaminated sites and suspected contaminated sites in the city area are recorded. In this cadastre, all soil-relevant data available at the UBB for the respective property are compiled and evaluated.

Information on contaminated sites

Information from the register of contaminated sites is personal data and therefore worthy of protection. Information from the register of contaminated sites can therefore only be provided to the landowner or with their consent. The information on contaminated sites must be submitted in writing by e-mail, fax or post with the following details:

• Details of the requested property (address, district, corridor and parcel)
• Name and current address of the applicant
• A declaration of consent or power of attorney from the owner, if the applicant is not the owner of the property.

Costs

An administrative fee is charged for the information provided, which is based on the time required. Experience has shown that fees of 72.00 euros to a maximum of 500.00 euros are charged, depending on the size of the requested property and the scope of the file.

City of Wolfsburg

Environmental Agency
Porschestrasse 49
38440 Wolfsburg

Phone: 05361 28-1234
Fax: 05361 28-1877

E-mail: bodenschutz@stadt.wolfsburg.de

Specialist in charge of the Lower Waste/Immission Control and Soil Authority:

Daniel Kern
Town Hall B
Room B 434
Phone: 05361 28-1818
E-mail: daniel.kern@stadt.wolfsburg.de

Lower soil protection authority:
Clara Bonse
Town Hall B
Room B 434
Telephone: 05361 28-2075
E-Mail: clara.bonse@stadt.wolfsburg.de