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After a passenger ship damaged the lower lock gate of the Riedenburg lock on the Main-Danube Canal on the evening of June 5, 2019, the lock gate could no longer be closed. Shipping traffic on the entire Main-Danube Canal came to a standstill. In the meantime, 115 ships had to take a "forced break" and the traffic jam extended to more than 200 km.

During the extreme flood in 2002, there was a significant hydraulic overload of the operating facilities as a result of the overrun of the then valid BHQ 2. In order to restore the flood safety of the 106-year-old Intze quarry wall, the reconstruction of the existing HWE and the construction of a new gutter with a sound basin will be implemented in the next 30 months.

The 87th ICOLD Annual Meeting took place in Ottawa, Canada, from 9 to 14 June 2019. About 1,400 participants from 75 countries attended the conference on "Sustainable and safe Dams around the World".

Construction work on the new building of the 5th Brunsbüttel Lock Chamber has been underway since 2014. The lock chamber walls are constructed in sheet metal construction with a reinforced concrete superstructure based on boring piles. The new lock chamber will have a length of about 340 m and a width of 45 m.

Since 2007, Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH has been planning the renewal of the traditional power plant site in Forbach for EnBW. With the preparation of the tender documents for the new lower stage, the planning services are now entering a new phase.

At the listed Malter Dam, an Intze gravity dam made of quarry stones (construction period 1908-1913, height 36 m, total volume 8.78 million m³) at the Rote Weißeritz in Saxony, the extreme flooding of 2002 caused a significant hydraulic overload of the operating facilities due to the exceeding of the then valid BHQ 2.

The Mühlgraben is a 2nd order water body in the urban area of Erfurt and an important main watercourse for the district of Gispersleben. Below the crossing of the Gera by the Road of Nations, at km 16 of the Gera, the Mühlgraben is diverted by the Gera to flow back to the Kiliani park at km 15 of the Gera. The lines of the Mühlgraben were predominantly straight in the existing structure, the…

The Structural and Licensing Directorate North, Regional Office for Water Management, Waste Management and Soil Protection Trier, intends to implement structural measures from 2019 to upgrade the approx. 1.5 km long flood protection facilities in Trier between the German Youth Hostel and the access road to the RATIO shopping centre.

The responsibility of Kommunalservice Weimar as an independent enterprise of the City of Weimar lies with the public sewage disposal of the Legefeld district and the municipality of Isseroda. On its behalf, Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH planned underground reservoir systems on the basis of preliminary investigations for both local networks and accompanied their completion as construction supervisor.

The new construction of the lock in Otterndorf in the district of Cuxhaven is currently the largest coastal protection project in Lower Saxony with an investment sum of around 30 million euros. The completion of the new Hadelner canal lock is scheduled for 2022.