Page 15 - Port of Hamburg Magazine - 01.19

That will involve removal of the existing tiles on the bottom, digging channels, and laying out islands and mudflats. The concrete edges will be retained and so will the picturesque little pumping stations on the margin. “Over one century old, the works is a listed building and naturally we shall treat it accordingly. In addition, we aim to preserve the stock of mature trees. Everything here belongs together,” says Marc Kindermann, who planned this part of the project for HPA.
The first basin should be remodelled and connected to the tide by end-February 2020. Also reconstruc- ted, the second will be connected to the first in win- ter 2020/21. The hemlock water dropwort will then be introduced in the form of seeds and grown plants, and willow cuttings will be planted on some islands. HPA aims to complete this ambitious project by spring 2021 – with nature looking after the rest. It will therefore be only logical for the transformed ba- sins to be declared a European Nature Reserve im- mediately they are completed. ■
THE HEMLOCK WATER DROPWORT ONLY GROWS UNDER TIDAL INFLUENCE
Port of Hamburg Magazine | March 2019 | 15
FUTURE PORT ■
© Klaus Janke