ABSTRACT
Heavy and prolonged rain caused considerable damage to the infrastructure in June 2013 along the river Elbe region in Germany. Several flood protection dykes were damaged and caused over 12 billion Euros of economic losses throughout Germany. The purpose of dykes is to protect the towns/localities on the land side from being flooded. In order to maintain flood protection, the dykes must be renovated and reinforced. In many cases, the space on the Dam is narrow and there are buildings, monuments and protected trees along the dyke axis. Therefore, the renovation takes place often through a statically fully effective core seal (steel sheet pile wall) directly in the middle of dyke. In Germany, the remediation of the dykes through reinforcement with sheet pile wall is a reliable, efficient, permanent and therefore economical solution and, above all, a method with significantly lower environmental impact.
