According to the local authorities, the danger in the Mountain Fall area in Lötschental remains “very high” after the end of the glacier in the Swiss canton Valais. Because several hundred thousands of cubic meters of rock are still unstable.
It is therefore currently not possible to use the puinkel, it was said on Sunday morning by the cantonal leadership body. The population was urgently asked to follow the instructions of the authorities. “There are still broken rocks from the Kleine Nesthorn,” said Matthias Ebener, head of information about regional leadership in the Lötschental. For the time being, however, everything remains where the glacier used to be.
A precautionary measure is now slowly filling the reservoir with water from the river Lonza, which is now paved around the pent-up debris and puinkeel. “The Lonza seems to have found its way,” said the mayor of the village of Blatten, which has largely fallen into the deeper, Matthias Bellwald. The water level of the lake behind the Puinkegel is now about a meter lower than on Friday, Raphaël Mayoraz, head of the office of the Canton Valais, explained. The water volume has fallen with 200,000 cubic meters to 800,000 cubic meters.
Cleaning up cannot start yet
For the neighboring cities in the Lötschental, further down, the danger had decreased further. “She wasn’t very high before, and now it’s slightly lower,” said Mayoraz. Raining predicted for Monday should therefore no longer have major effects. Due to the still unstable location, cleaning up cannot start yet. People and excavators have to wait.
Source: Krone
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