Author(s)

A. Schmidt & P. Faulhaber

Abstract

Five years of artificial bed load feeding in the River Elbe A. Schmidt & P. Faulhaber Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute, Germany Abstract Erosion of river beds leads to various problems concerning navigation, river structures, flood dynamics, groundwater table and conditions of flora and fauna. A feasible measure to reduce this degradation process is to compensate the deficit of bed load by artificial bed load supply. Since 1996 field experiments are made by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration together with the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (Bundesanstalt fur Wasserbau) and the Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt fur Gewasserkunde) to investigate the effectiveness of stabilizing the river bottom of the upper part of the river Elbe by artificial bed load feeding. The aim of these studies is to demonstrate the feasibility and the limits of this method of bed erosion prevention for this particular section of the

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