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Active in Blten since June 27. Moreover, the Swiss army will leave Haut-Valais on Monday evening. However, Most of the wood floating on Lake Blatten has been removed, without a volume has been calculated. For example, – Blaten: army will complete its
(Keystone-ATS) In the afternoon of May 28, part of the Birch glacier located above Blatten broke. In addition, Millions of cubic meters of rubble. Meanwhile, ice and water won, covering and destroying the small Haut-Valais village in less than a blaten: army will complete its minute.
At first, the army intervened on the basis of the military aid order in the event of a disaster. Similarly, From June 27 to August 3. then from last Monday and until Monday August 11, the army continued its mission at the request of the authorities of the commune of Blatten, by applying the order concerning the support of civil activities and outside the service with military means (OACM).
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Since the end of June. the army has fulfilled the missions requested by the municipality: a clearing of the floating lake of wood and parts of the house found (roofs, granges sides blown out by the landslide), as well as the sorting and preparation for the treatment of materials removed from the water. “With a current depth of some 40 cm. the lake no longer allows us to use our boats,” says Lieutenant-Colonel of Territorial Division 1, blaten: army will complete its Jean-Claude Gagliardi to explain the end of the current mission.
“Each important episode of rain carries floating wood. Part of it accumulates at the exit of the lake. However. it can be estimated that the majority of the wood floating on our arrival has been removed from the lake, ”continues the Bas-Valaisan.
As a reminder. the wood harvested was burned by the army, in collaboration with the firefighters of the Lötschental, by decision of the commune of Blatten. The pieces of life (photos, personal effects) found were returned to their owners.
No official size order
“It is not possible to give an order of magnitude of the volume of harvested waste. Additionally, The quantity of debris and wood extracted from the lake is not measured, ”recalled Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Claude Gagliardi. A month ago, the Valais Environment Service (SEN) spoke of 480 cubic meters of floating times to evacuate.
Thirty soldiers were engaged from June 27 blaten: army will complete its to August 3. We are talking about genius specialists, infantrymen and mountain specialists. From August 4 to 11, 16 genius specialists worked on the ground. The air forces have “stolen from around thirty hours”, according to information from the army press service.
From Monday and until August 29, the emergency road leading to the main hamlets of Blaten will be consolidated and secure.
The lake reduced by a third party
At the geological level. work to identify the composition of the materials is still in progress on the dejection cone, “in poorly exposed places and under strict surveillance”, told Keystone-Ats, the service of the natural dangers of the State of Valais (SDANA), which recalls that “the majority of the dejection cone can be affected in the event of a large landslide and that Torrential lava. »»
The flow of the Lonza river is, “in average annual values for the season. The volume of blaten: army will complete its the lake has emptied about a third (Editor’s note: since the end of May). the passage of the water has been flowing normally, ”notes the SDANA. A situation that has changed little since early July.
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