!!!Wasserstraßendirektion, WSD

Waterways Authority, German: Wasserstrassendirektion (WSD), formerly 
Bundesstrombauamt (Federal Waterways Engineering Office): Its duties 
comprise administration, regulating and maintaining the Rivers Danube 
(including the Vienna Danube Canal), Enns and Traun (estuary area), 
March and Thaya (up to Bernhardsthal valley) as well as other issues 
concerning their organisation and management. The waterways authority 
has three waterways administration offices for specific areas (West: 
Aschach; Central: Krems an der Donau; East: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg) and 
manages the Danube flood protection association 
(Donauhochwasserschutz-Konkurrenz, DHK) which implements both 
preventive and defensive measures.


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