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This page contains extracts from recent IWI publications (World Wide Waterways), letters to decision-makers or reports on other activities. Only members will have access to all published material, as well as a privileged access to waterway bibliographies (work in progress).

Contents WWW #24

- Study tour to Bohemia and Saxony
- Midi plane trees dying
- Kerala canal and tunnels to be restored?
- Ulster Canal debate in Dublin parliament
- The WCC Groningen Declaration
- NYS Thruway adopts Port Byron project
- Bosphorus by-pass canal proposed

Contents WWW #23

- Council members hosted by Yangzhou
- French canals lose two campaigners
- Smaller French waterways update
- Cotswolds-Berry link
- Vltava and Saale-Elster study tour
- My reasons for joining
- Founder Ron Oakley plaque
- Irrigation vs. navigation in Australia
- Inland water transport news
- Czech D-O-E campaign builds up

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May 2011
Support for Czech & German projects

Czech and German associations welcomed IWI's support to their ambitious ongoing waterway projects during the April 2011 visit by a 40-strong party. Members and other professionals and advocates from 9 countries took part in the study and campaigning tour organised by corporate member Euromapping. President Dave Ballinger gives his account of the tour on the tours page.

The projects are the Upper River Vltava in Southern Bohemia (Czech Republic) and the Saale-Elster Canal, leading from the Saale to Leipzig (Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). These new waterways could be added to the European map of routes for recreational boating within a few years.

The Upper Vltava Navigation will be opened in 2013 from Ceske Budejovice to Tyn nad Vltavou, 33 km downstream. The tour focused on the works in this section, but also at the Orlik and Slapy dams, respectively 70m and 53m high. The digital rendering of Slapy dam (below) shows the scheme finally adopted by the Czech Waterways Directorate, with an existing upstream lock (to be completed), bridge, short two-way tunnel at the upstream level, and transverse inclined plane

The Saale-Elster Canal, unfinished since WWII, will connect with a network of small navigable rivers, lakes and connecting canals in and around Leipzig.

Click for map showing the route of the Upper Vltava waterway from Ceske Budejovice to Prague

Map showing the Federal Waterway Saale to the west and the route of the
Saale-Elster Canal through to Leipzig (click for enlargement)


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