Background and side conditions
The measure is a river engineering compensation measure related to the planned fairway deepening project of the Federal Administration for Waterways and Navigation (WSV) and Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). This measure is not carried out for WFD or Natura 2000 objectives.
A study was conducted on how the dredging material, which will come up during the planned deepening of the fairway, can be relocated in the mouth of the estuary in a beneficial way i.e. to meet favorable morphological and ecological aims at the same time. The study was carried out by the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) using a 3-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical model.
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