Invitation to the evening lecture on 18.06.2025: Environmental monitoring - How clean is our groundwater?

Where? Landesbibliothekszentrum, Otto-Mayer-Str. 9, 67346 Speyer 

When? Wednesday, 18.06.2025 at 6 pm 

Lecturers: Dr. Stephan Sauer (State Office for the Environment, Rhineland-Palatinate) und Dr. Dieter Martens (LUFA Speyer) 

As part of the public lecture series “A bouquet of flowers from agriculture, environmental and consumer protection”, which we are organizing on the occasion of our 150th anniversary in cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Centre, Dr. Stephan Sauer from the State Office for the Environment, RLP and Dr. Dieter Martens from the LUFA Speyer will speak on the topic “Environmental monitoring - How clean is our groundwater? “

About the presentation: Areal and point source pollution and nutrient inputs influence groundwater quality, which is monitored by the State Office for the Environment at 1,400 official measuring points in Rhineland-Palatinate.

In 2023/2024, the State Office for the Environment carried out state-wide groundwater monitoring for organic trace substances for the third time. The groundwater was analyzed at 171 sites for 450 parameters, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals and their respective degradation products, perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), various industrial chemicals, food additives, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and volatile halogenated hydrocarbons (VHCs). The State Office for the Environment is supported by LUFA Speyer in the analysis of organic trace substances.

600 groundwater measuring points and wells are also analyzed annually for nitrate and other standard parameters. Annual nitrate values have been available for the subset of 160 measuring points since 1993.

Is there chemical pollution of the groundwater in Rhineland-Palatinate? And if so, in which region?

Please note that the lecture will be held in German.