The FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment was developed within the research project HWS-Mobile, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Different prototypes of such water-filled tube systems for emergency flood control were developed and tested in laboratory as well as in situ. In 2012, the FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment was tested and certified by the German Technical Inspection Agency TUV Nord for deployment in emergency flood control.
The system was used successfully during the severe Elbe flooding in 2013. Since 2013, the FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment is included in the training courses for flood agents at the College of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief in Hoya, Lower Saxony in Germany.