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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 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 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 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.

As part of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, Tractebel Hydroprojekt GmbH was commissioned in May 2017 by the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Flood Protection and Water Management to design the fish ladder at the Staßfurt weir at the river Bode.

From 7 to 8 March 2019, the traditional Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium took place in the International Congress Center Dresden. The Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics at the Technical University of Dresden was able to welcome more than 420 participants from Germany and abroad with the kind support of the Society of Sponsors of the Hubert Angels Institute, the…