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Anchored in Switzerland and internationally active, WALO is managed as a family business in the 4th and 5th generation. For over 100 years, WALO has focused on the combination of consistency and innovation.

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Dredging KW Mapragg

Walo Bertschinger AG was commissioned by the Sarganserland power plant to dredge sediments from a water depth of up to 50 meters in the Mapragg reservoir, Tamina Valley near Bad Ragaz.

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Walo Bertschinger AG was commissioned by the Sarganserland power plant to dredge sediments from a water depth of up to 50 meters in the Mapragg reservoir, Tamina Valley near Bad Ragaz.

The Mapragg compensating reservoir was put into operation in 1977. Due to the ongoing permanent sediment inflow, sediments have formed in front of the dam wall, rising up to the threshold level of the bottom outlet.

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During the AVOR phase from December 2017 to the start of construction on May 2, 2018, it was necessary, among other things, to provide suitable dredging equipment that could meet the requirements set. Since no suitable plant could be procured on the construction machinery market, it was built by WALO on its own. The plant had to be designed in such a way that it could reach an excavation depth of 50 meters. The excavation was carried out by a grab with the considerable size of 5 m³. The dredged material then had to be sorted on the plant. While material fractions smaller than 8 mm were pumped to the dam via a floating pump line and discharged into the Rhine through the pressure tunnel of the power plant, the coarse material (wood, stones) had to be disposed of by land.

High demands were placed on the plant control system, which was also built and programmed by Walo. The grab had to be controlled in such a way that the target dredging depth was maintained even when the lake level fluctuated (up to 13m per day). Power was supplied to the plant from a connection at the power station, where 20,000 volts were made available. This voltage was conducted to the plant via a floating line and fed into a transformer stationed on it, from which the plant components were supplied with power.