Waters Overview — Rivers and Lakes in the Deployment Area
ScanSustain operates ROV-based underwater diagnostics within a 250 km radius of the Braunau am Inn base. Six rivers and seventeen Alpine and pre-Alpine lakes form the core deployment area. For each body of water we document characteristic structures, locally typical damage patterns, methodological realities (visibility, depth, current) and the responsible authorities. Actual deployments are subject to approval by the respective responsible local authorities, facility operators and shipping administrations.
Rivers
Waterways and alpine bedload rivers with dense hydraulic-engineering infrastructure:
Inn
Hydropower corridor with numerous run-of-river power plants — power plant facilities, bridge piers, groynes, locks.
Danube
International waterway — locks, groynes, bridge piers, harbour facilities from Passau to Vienna.
Salzach
Alpine bedload river — bed ramps, bedload barriers, flood protection, bridge piers.
Enns
Hydropower corridor between Steyr and the Danube confluence — power plants, bridges, bed ramps.
Traun
From Lake Hallstatt to the Danube — hydropower plants, weir structures, bridges, flood protection.
Isar
Pre-Alpine bedload river — hydropower facilities, Munich bridges, flood protection.
Lakes
Salzkammergut, Bavarian pre-Alps, tourism infrastructure and industrial riparian owners:
Chiemsee
Bavarian Sea, 80 km² — ship landing stages, jetties, boathouses, island supply, gauges.
Attersee
169 m deep, very clear — Attersee shipping line, jetties, gauge structures, deep anchor structures.
Traunsee
191 m deep — shipping, industrial water intakes, steep-bank structures, saltworks industry.
Wolfgangsee
113 m deep — tourist landing stages, hotel jetties, lido facilities, gauges.
Mondsee
66.6 m deep — high jetty density, Mondsee shipping line, hotel jetties, lido facilities.
Hallstätter See
125 m deep, UNESCO World Heritage — hotel jetties, historic saltworks connection, gauges.
Tegernsee
72.6 m deep — dense hotel infrastructure, hotel jetties, boathouses, shipping.
Königssee
190 m deep, Berchtesgaden National Park — sensitive shipping infrastructure.
Starnberger See
Bavaria's second-largest lake — Bavarian Lake Shipping, hotel industry, lido facilities.
Ammersee
Bavaria's third-largest lake — landing stages, jetties, lido facilities.
Walchensee
189.5 m deep, very clear — penstock connection to the Walchensee power plant.
Zeller See
Pinzgau, tourist centre Zell am See — hotel jetties, landing stages.
Achensee
Tyrol's largest lake — Achensee shipping line, hotel jetties, lido facilities.
Wörthersee
Carinthia's largest lake — Wörthersee shipping line, high-quality hotel industry.
Millstätter See
141 m deep — Carinthia's deepest lake, hotel infrastructure.
Ossiacher See
Carinthian festival region — landing stages, hotel industry, festival infrastructure.
Neusiedler See
320 km² steppe lake, national park — shallow (~1 m mean, ~1.8 m max), sensitive.
Methodology Hub Page
For the overarching methodology of lake inspection (visibility profile, depth strategy, sonar/optics mix) we maintain a dedicated hub page:
Underwater Inspection in Lakes — Methodology Hub
Visibility and depth profile per lake type, method selection sonar/optics, deployment windows by season, typical structures.
Damage Classes Underwater Diagnostics
Twelve classes with definition, cause and documentation axes — the basis for structured findings capture.
Response Time and Accessibility
From the Burgkirchen base (5274) we reach the Inn, Salzach and Chiemsee in under an hour, the Salzkammergut lakes in 1 to 2 hours, the upper Danube area up to Linz in 1 to 1.5 hours and the Bavarian pre-Alpine lakes Tegernsee, Schliersee and Walchensee in 1.5 to 2.5 hours. Response time for an initial deployment coordination is typically 1 to 3 working days.
Plan a Specific Deployment Water
Describe your use case — within 1 to 3 working days you will receive a concrete initial assessment with method selection, effort indication and response time.