LANAYE LOCK MOVES FORWARD

[LOG: Brussels, March 2]
In December 2009, the Town and Country Planning Department of the Walloon region issued a license to allow the building of a fourth lock at Lanaye. This fourth lock, which will be constructed to the east of the three existing locks, will have a working length of 225m and a width of 25m. The lock will allow the passage of vessels up to 9,000 tons. To maintain the water level of the Meuse, a station will pump water from upstream in order to compensate for the water consumption of the lock complex. In addition, a hydroelectric power station with a 2 megawatts capacity will function whenever the flow of the Meuse allows it. The license to proceed includes the condition that 90 percent of the construction and building site materials for the new lock should be delivered and removed by water, that the three existing locks should be renovated and that a catering space should be developed on the site. Construction is planned to start in autumn of 2010, with the lock becoming operational in 2014.

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