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The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) and the Federal Administration of Waterways and Navigation (WSV) installed the sediment trap in spring 2008. This sediment trap in Wedel was realized as one of the first steps of a recently designed River Engineering and Sediment Management Concept (RESMC) for the tidal influenced Elbe estuary.