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Industrial activities in the river basin of the Elbe have a very long tradition, and have been resulting in the contamination of sediments for centuries. Contamination lasted until the fall of the iron curtain; since then, the situation has improved significantly. In the transition zone between freshwater systems and the marine environment, ports like Hamburg still have to bear this burden of history. An overall (contaminated) management strategy should be developed in the context of the European Water Framework Directive with the emphasis on source control.
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Axel Netzband gave a keynote lecture during the SedNet Inaugural Conference, April 22–24, 2002, which forms the basis of this article.
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Netzband, A., Reincke, H. & Bergemann, M. The river elbe. J Soils & Sediments 2, 112–116 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988462
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988462