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Since November 2019, the Structural and Authorisation Directorate North, Regional Office for Water Management, Waste Management and Soil Protection Trier has been implementing the measures to upgrade the approximately 1.5 km long flood protection systems in Trier between the Römerstadt Youth Hostel and the access to the RATIO shopping centre.

The Kiel-Holtenau lock system separates the North Sea-Baltic Sea Canal from the Kiel Fjord as the world's busiest artificial waterway. It consists essentially of two double-chamber locks and a drainage system. The Kiel-Holtenau lock system transports up to 30,000 ships a year for professional shipping, although currently only the Great Lock can be used for shipping. In addition, in the summer…

In September 2019, Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH (THP) was commissioned by Bayerische Landeskraftwerke GmbH (LaKW) to carry out the planning services for the construction of a new hydropower plant at the existing Weir Türkheim on the Wertach in the district of Unterallgäu.

The first-order waters Hörsel and Nesse flow through the town of Eisenach. The flood protection plans for the measures complex II, II.1 Spicke and III with road bridges include sections of the Hörsel on a total length of 6 km in the area of the city of Eisenach as well as a 500 m long Nesse section.

More than twenty locations on the Wipper will protect a new flood retention basin from flooding. The ecologically consistent structure can retain up to 4.25 million cubic meters of water. Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH has been working as a general planner for this ambitious dam construction project since 2013 and oversees the construction.

After the ceremonial start of construction in August 2019 for the 21 million euro project south of Dresden, the work is proceeding rapidly favorably due to the mild winter and despite the Corona pandemic. Thus, the deepening of the collection gutter and the under-capture of the collecting gutter wall could already be implemented.

Underground water caverns for the storage of renewable energies in the open-cast mining reservoir – this future scenario of a new pumped storage plant in the Rhenish Opencast Mining Area Garzweiler, Hambach and Inden was investigated by Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH in a concept study on the energy re-use of opencast mining waste holes in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Altarmwehr Quitzöbel is located in the northeast of Saxony-Anhalt and is part of the Wehrgruppe Quitzöbel, which consists of a total of four fortifications. The Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration owns two fortifications, the Altarmwehr and the Durchstichwehr.

From 5 to 6 March 2020, the traditional Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium took place at the International Congress Center Dresden. The Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics at the Technical University of Dresden, with the kind support of the Society of Sponsors of the Hubert Engels Institute, the DWA and the BWK, welcomed about 300 participants from Germany and…

As of December 1, 2019, our Dresden division has moved to new offices on Mendelssohnallee 8 in 01309 Dresden. After 20 years at the previous location in Dresden's Ludwig-Hartmann-Straße, the move was required due to the cancellation by the landlord.