TOXIC TOUR STOP 5: BEESEN WATERWORKS
The village of Beesen is situated in the southernmost part of the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt. Its old village center, surrounded by the high-rise public housing projects of southern Halle, lies beautifully on the Saale-Elster meadows — with Schkopau and the Buna Werke situated right across. Historically, the Beesen waterworks have played a very important role in the provision of water for the entire city of Halle. Could their shutdown in 2007 be in any way related to the proximity of the chemical plant?
Fritz Kühlein, Philipp Max Baum, Anastasia Klaar, Lea Danninger and Johanna Degering. 25 January 2022, "Toxic Tour Stop 5: The toxic heritage of Buna in the groundwater of southern Halle and its contemporary traces", Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 November 2024, accessed 1 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/toxic-tour-stop-5-toxic-heritage-buna-groundwater-southern-halle-and-its-contemporary-traces
