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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Contaminated Sediments in the Elbe Basin and its Tributary Mulde
Authors : Petra Schneider, Heinrich Reincke
Published in: Uranium in the Environment
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Data from the Elbe River and its tributaries indicate, despite extensive improvement in water quality since reunification, that the sediment situation of many priority pollutants has not reached an acceptable level. The risks for downstream sites, especially the port of Hamburg, the lower part of the tidal river Elbe and the North Sea will persist in future. In practice, the catchment-wide assessment of contaminated soil and sediment should be identified and valued for acquiring a management plan for the EC Water Framework. The focus will be the on the tributary Mulde.