The Weißache is a river of

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, a right tributary of the Inn. The Weißache flows in the

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, a valley between the Kaiser Mountains and the Hohe Salve. It rises at about on the in the and discharges in , a district of

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, into the Inn. The Ache flows through the following municipalities (in downstream order): Ellmau, Scheffau, Söll, Schwoich, Kufstein. Before the road branches off to Schwoich, the river is divided and a larger part is pumped under the hill t into a

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south of Kufsteins and acts as cooling water, before it flows back on a natural course into the Inn. Between Egerbach (a district of Schwoich) and (a district of Kufstein) the remaining part of the Weißache flows for about through a long gully, before it exits from the valley and heads northwest towards the Inn. This part discharges into the Inn around after the boiler station. In 2005 numerous measures were taken in Kufstein to reinforce the banks. The stream has cut ever deeper in the past years which could cause its banks to collapse.

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