Around three and a half weeks after the flood disaster, the particularly affected Ahrweiler district has given an estimated sum of the damage.

Accordingly, the flood in mid-July caused damage to municipal facilities of an estimated more than 3.7 billion euros, as the district administration announced on Saturday in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister's Conference will, among other things, deal with reconstruction aid for the affected regions in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the district, the estimated and preliminary billions in costs of the municipalities in the Ahrkreis relate to parts of the infrastructure, schools, day-care centers and sports facilities, among other things. The development team of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had therefore asked affected cities and districts to report the amount of damage in the run-up to the Prime Minister's Conference.

Apart from the damage assessment, the clean-up work is continuing in the disaster region.

There is still a great need for clearance, said the supervisory and service directorate responsible for disaster control (ADD).

The road situation is improving steadily.

In Dernau, for example, a makeshift bridge is being planned, according to ADD.

In Altenahr, the power supply was at least partially restored, but many house connections were still not working.

According to ADD, there is still no drinking water available from the mains in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, around 90 percent of households are supplied with process water that has to be boiled.

Helper Center is moving

On July 14th and 15th, extreme heavy rain triggered a tidal wave on the Ahr, flooding and destroying large parts of the valley.

Around 42,000 people are affected by the consequences.

The death toll from the floods remains at 142 in the country, 141 of them died in the Ahr valley.

Well over 700 people were injured, 16 people are still missing.

More than 4,000 people from the fire brigade, technical relief organization (THW), police, armed forces and other aid organizations are on duty.

The so-called provision center for the auxiliary workers at the Nürburgring is changing its location.

"We're just moving," said the spokesman for the THW regional association for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Michael Walsdorf.

Work started on Friday and would take a few more days.

The previous location in the paddock at the Nürburgring had to be cleared because the preparations for the next event were beginning there. According to the ring, the German Touring Car Masters (DTM) will be visiting the Eifel race track from August 20 to 22. In future, according to THW information, the assistants will find space in a spectator parking lot on the Ring. A second one might be needed, said Walsdorf.

The political reappraisal of the flood disaster continues. According to information from party circles, the CDU parliamentary group in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament wants to request the establishment of a committee of inquiry into the flood disaster. The parliamentary group chairman Christian Baldauf and the deputy parliamentary group leader Gordon Schnieder have invited to a press conference on Monday “about the consequences of the flood disaster that are necessary from the point of view of the CDU parliamentary group”.

On this day, the decision on an application to set up a committee of inquiry is to be communicated, as the party said on Saturday.

Previously, the "Rhein-Zeitung" reported that the parliamentary group wanted to go this way.

The AfD has also already requested a committee of inquiry.

As the third opposition faction, the Free Voters spoke of a “failure in reporting chains”.

On Friday, the Koblenz public prosecutor began investigations against the district administrator of the Ahrweiler district, Jürgen Pföhler (CDU), and another member of the crisis team.

This concerns the initial suspicion of negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm through negligence.

In essence, it should be clarified whether human lives could have been saved with previous warnings or evacuations.