{"id":8839,"date":"2019-07-17T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ern.org\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:55:46","slug":"selune-the-demolition-of-the-vezins-dam-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/selune-the-demolition-of-the-vezins-dam-started\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9lune: the demolition of the Vezins dam on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">It is a historic moment for S\u00e9lune!<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">In recent days the cranes are at work on the left side of the dam and started the deconstruction of Vezins dam itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">By the end of May the machines were present on site to dismantle the old hydroelectric power plant and make work to be transparent to floods.<\/span> In this way i<span title=\"\">n June three big openings (4X5meters each) were realized and the three bottom sluices open allowing passage of centennial floods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/07\/5-m-hole-completed_MG_5367-copyright-Vincent-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/07\/5-m-hole-completed_MG_5367-copyright-Vincent-M.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/07\/5-m-hole-completed_MG_5367-copyright-Vincent-M-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/07\/5-m-hole-completed_MG_5367-copyright-Vincent-M-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2019\/07\/5-m-hole-completed_MG_5367-copyright-Vincent-M-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">In a few weeks another gear will come into action.<\/span> <span title=\"\">Already installed at the foot of the dam this crane and 55 meters long articulated arm will dismount the central part of the dam.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Work are schedulde throughout the summer and until the fall.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">The international media cover the Selune case : among others the international network of WWF, the BBC, AL Jazeera,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavanguardia.com\/natural\/20190617\/462865121729\/comienza-desmantelamiento-presa-mas-grande-europa-recuperacion-rios.html?fbclid=IwAR2-z72GHsCVyuMdjm84C_jP7NMNBh5VQk8XuUJjC7kxhnedbIQp8gNqXKQ\">La Vanguardia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldiario.es\/ballenablanca\/biodiversidad\/presa-siempre-obra-eterna_0_921458640.html\">Eldiario<\/a> in Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/dennikn.sk\/blog\/1521308\/europa-oslobodzuje-rieky-prave-teraz-bura-priehradu-francuzsko-preco-sa-to-deje-vysvetluje-expert-roberto-epple\/?ref=box\">Dennik N<\/a> in Slovakia will report on the spot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-wrap tlid-copy-target\">\n<div class=\"result-shield-container tlid-copy-target\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">More about the project and the steps that led to this decision, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/selune-libre\/\">dedicated page<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a historic moment for S\u00e9lune! In recent days the cranes are at work on the left side of the dam and started the deconstruction of Vezins dam itself. By the end of May the machines were present on site to dismantle the old hydroelectric power plant and make work to be transparent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":8951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[158,159,51,55,54,2],"tags":[171,172,130,174],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-removal","category-dam-watch","category-poutes","category-restoring","category-selune","category-welcome-en","tag-damremovaleurope","tag-effacement-de-barrage","tag-selune","tag-vezins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ern.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}