As of: March 8, 2024, 2:12 p.m
By: Dominik Stallein
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Greenhouses were under water in Gelting in December.
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At the beginning of December, several properties were under water.
What was that about?
To date there is no answer.
The search continues.
Gelting/Wolfratshausen - It's been three months since Josef Holzer's greenhouse was under water, two families left their home overnight and the basement of the XXXLutz furniture store had to be pumped out.
However, why the flooding in Wolfratshausen and Gelting occurred at the beginning of December has not yet been conclusively clarified.
All that is publicly known so far is that the Loisach-Isar Canal was leaking.
Now Uniper, the company that operates the channel, reports that further investigations are pending.
What led to the floods in Geretsried and Wolfratshausen?
The Loisach-Isar Canal is being further checked
Company spokesman Theodoros Reum Schüssel announces tests underground: “These investigations will be carried out at selected locations.” Material is taken and examined in the laboratory.
Uniper hopes that the measure will “contribute to determining the cause of the damage,” according to the letter.
Uniper works with a company that specializes in geotechnical engineering.
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The energy supplier that operates the Walchensee power plant and the associated canal has to renovate the watercourse for the second time in a short space of time.
As reported, Uniper had declared the large-scale rehabilitation of the canal completed just a few days before the flood.
Only small steel and railing work was still necessary.
The energy supplier had made improvements to several sections between Eurasburg and Wolfratshausen.
The measure, which cost eight million euros, lasted several years.
That's why the canal was flooded again.
The area in Gelting that was now affected was excluded from the work - it had been identified in advance as being undamaged.
The Loisach-Isar Canal was leaking - Uniper is now checking the subsoil
Uniper is planning several drilling holes for underground testing.
From Monday, March 11th, they will be carried out within three weeks.
Research is being carried out in two exploration areas.
One is in Gelting, seven core drillings and eight “small ramming core drillings” are planned.
The second area is in Wolfratshausen around the area where the B 11 crosses the canal - i.e. near the cycle path between Farchet and Waldram.
A total of six holes are planned there.
“The drilling has been coordinated with the authorities,” assures Reum Schüssel.
Paths and streets may be temporarily closed.
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