In a joint project in 2014, the Ruhrverband and the city of Sundern significantly changed the course of the water, created new habitat structures and improved the floodplain connection. As a result of the redesign, the Sorpe now has a completely new, heavily tortuous and almost 800 meter longer flow path in its lower reaches. The significantly flatter and wider course of the stream is based on the water type-specific conditions of the Heve in the Arnsberg Forest. The water bed of the Röhr has now been partially shifted to the side and supplemented with high-flow channels.

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1. View of the Sorpe dam – Lake Sorpesee loop from Sundern

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2. Sorpesee Dam – View of the Sorpe dam loop from Arnsberg-Neheim-Hüsten

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3. Ruhr Valley near Oeventrop – Confluence of Röhr and Sorpe loop from Freienohl

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Elevation 210 m

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Location: Sundern (Sauerland), Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Renaturation of Sorpe and Röhr

1. View of the Sorpe dam – Lake Sorpesee loop from Sundern

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