Within the urban area of Munich, a part of the river Isar with 6 km in length was substantially restructured, renaturated and recovered for the nature-oriented leisure and recreational use of the urban population. The nature-oriented redesign is planned to be gradually continued. 

An interdisciplinary working group of the city council has prepared a renaturation concept under the responsibility of the local water management office which also considers the results of a detailed poll of citizens. The so-called “Isar Plan” combines flood protection with the restoration of a near-natural river landscape and the improvement of the leisure and recreation quality in the river bank zone.

A part of a strongly regulated river course in the inner-city has been redesigned thus making a near-natural area available again to the metropolitan population. At the same time flood protection was ensured and a contribution to environmental protection was made. 

Interdisciplinary planning and implementation, intensive civic participation, special know-how in terms of the environment and water engineering.

Wasserwirtschaftsamt München
Phone: +49 (089) 212330
poststelle@wwa-m.bayern.de
http://www.neues-leben-fuer-die-isar.de

01/01/1995

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Urban Policy > Urban environment

Environmental sustainability