Assistance operation Wildalpen-Schreierquelle

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The assistance mission Wildalpen-Schreierquelle ( Styria ) was the longest lasting disaster mission of the Austrian Armed Forces for the City of Vienna in the Second Republic .

occasion

Storm Kyrill , which raged from January 18 to 19, 2007 , caused great damage across Europe and also claimed numerous lives. The spring protection forests of the Second Vienna High Spring Pipeline near Wildalpen in Styria were also affected .

In the area of ​​the Wildalpen forest administration ( Magistratsabteilung 49 - Forestry Office and Agricultural Company of the City of Vienna ), which looks after the spring protection forests, there was an amount of damaged wood of around 30,000 to 35,000 cubic meters. This could process a large part of this amount of wood, which corresponds to four times the normal annual logging, itself. In regions in which forest roads were not allowed to be built for reasons of spring protection , however, outside help was necessary to avoid the mass reproduction of bark beetles , as these would also damage the forests that had been spared in the long term and thereby endanger the water supply of the city of Vienna.

commitment

On March 21, 2007, the State of Vienna requested assistance in the event of a disaster from the Vienna Military Command through the responsible Magistrate Directorate for Organization and Security, the Crisis Management and Immediate Measures Group under Section 2 of the 2001 Defense Act .

In order to accommodate the servicemen and women deployed on site, 1,600 meters above sea level was a 15 out of a in about S70 Black Hawk - helicopter flown office, bedroom and material containers existing container village built. In order to reach the location around the so-called Hirschenkogel from here , a height difference of around 800 meters had to be overcome every day.

In weekly supply flights, around seven tons of material (drinking and industrial water, food, operating supplies, spare parts, but also the emptying of the mobile toilet facilities ) were transported.

The actual work for the soldiers and employees of the MA 49 under the leadership of the Vienna Military Command began on May 14, 2007. The work was commanded by Lieutenant Birgit Jedinger from Engineer Battalion 2 in Wals-Siezenheim ( Salzburg ).

While the 20 or so forest workers who were deployed cut down the trees that were dangerously strained by the windbreak, the soldiers were deployed to remove the bark from the trunks ("whiten") and thus prevent the bark beetles from multiplying.

The debarked damaged wood was not transported because of the high costs of the countless helicopter flights, but remained on the mountain as biomass for humus formation. Since this procedure was used for the first time in a spring protection area, it will be scientifically monitored over the next few years.

A total of 376 members of the armed forces were deployed. They were replaced twice (between June 4th and 6th, the second date is not mentioned). After Mayor Michael Häupl and Environment City Councilor Ulli Sima thanked the soldiers and forest workers deployed by the City of Vienna's Forestry Office with a celebration and the award of the mission medal on July 6, the Austrian Armed Forces' largest assistance mission to date for the State of Vienna took place on July 13 Completed July 2007.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=%2F2007%2F0606%2F005.html
  2. ↑ a b http://www.bundesheer.at/cms/artikel.php?ID=3393
  3. ↑ a b http://www.bmlv.gv.at/cms/artikel.php?ID=3463
  4. ↑ http://www.diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/304107/index.do
  5. ↑ "BASSENA Employee Information for Wiener Wasserwerke", 14th edition, May 2007
  6. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=%2F2007%2F0707%2F001.html
  7. ↑ Assistance deployment after storm damage in Wildalpen ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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