New climate forest will protect drinking water from Jutland water wells

Glyngøre Waterworks supplies drinking water to 1,200 households in an area that will soon become forest and nature. The Climate Forest Fund has purchased a property of 166 hectares to transform the land into a peace forest. This will provide lasting protection for the area's drinking water. The forest will be planted on an area where drinking water is drawn from several spring sites, and with the forest, the use of pesticides that risk seeping into the groundwater will be eliminated, according to a press release from the Climate Forest Fund. Therefore, the Climate Forest Fund has also received strong support for the purchase from the board of Glyngøre Waterworks for the project. "We have been working for many years on the board to find a solution that can ensure we also have clean drinking water from Glyngøre Waterworks in the future. So we are very happy that we have succeeded in establishing a partnership with the Climate Forest Fund, so that a forest can now be planted. This provides permanent protection of the drinking water and at the same time gives us fantastic new nature for the area," says Thorvald Mortensen, chairman of Glyngøre Waterworks. The forest will grow in the middle of Sallingsund and Harre Vig in Limfjorden, and Glyngøre Waterworks has been allowed to name the new forest. It will be called "Fjord Forest." This name emphasizes that the forest will be part of the fjord landscape and will also help improve the water environment in Limfjorden. Part of a larger nature initiative The property's many hectares of farmland border the newly established 80-hectare wetland area, Harre Nor, which Skive Municipality has initiated to reduce nitrogen runoff into Limfjorden. This project is expected to be completed in July, and when the Climate Forest Fund takes over the property in October, the first steps toward more forest will be taken. "The new forest will be part of a larger connected natural area, which is important for the ecological condition of Limfjorden. It is an important step in the right direction, and we are happy to contribute to both the climate, a better water environment, and not least, cleaner drinking water," says Poul Erik Lauridsen, director of the Climate Forest Fund. The forest will be a mixed forest with more than 20 tree and shrub species, taking into account both scenic views and archaeological sites in the landscape. The Climate Forest Fund is an independent state fund that temporarily owns areas while they are being converted into forest and nature. An information meeting about the climate forest will be held on September 2, the fund reports.