New work to assess the environmental impacts of wastes from mining operations which have been disposed into the marine environment is set to begin shortly. The work will be undertaken by a dedicated working group, established by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environm
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 14-20, 2016). Royal IHC, ANP Ink TSHD Deal Royal IHC has signed a contract for the design, construction and delivery of a 4,200m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) with Administración Nacional de Pu
S.J. Hamill Construction Company LLC, as the lead in a joint venture with Banks Construction, has successfully completed their first month of crushed stone placement for the South Carolina Port Authority’s new 280-acre container terminal in Charleston, SC. In lieu of industry standard mass material
Anders Jensen (Lifetime Achievement Award), Sina Saremi (Rising Star Award) and DHI project ‘Hvide Sande Harbor, Denmark’ were presented with top industry honors at the Dredging & Port Construction (DPC) Innovation Awards 2016 in London. DHI’s harbor project was highly commended for the re-design of
Thames-Coromandel District Council recently completed dredging of the Jack’s Point boat ramp in Coromandel Harbor. According to the council, the dredging has been so successful that there’s now access at the ramp 3 hours either side of high tide. “We encourage recreational boaties and fishers to use
Ghent Dredging, a Belgium based marine construction company, has won a contract to re-open the Nederschelde waterway between Wijdenaard Bridge and New Bridge. This development project will include the stabilization and restoration of the existing quay walls and reconstruction of the Bisdomkaai, Bisd
Initial work is due to get underway on a new £5 million scheme to stabilize cliffs along the coastline at Clacton and Holland-on-Sea. Mott MacDonald has been appointed to carry out ground investigation and design works for the project. It will follow on from the highly successful coastal protection
A new five-year plan to better protect the City of York against flooding has been announced, Thursday 17 November. The Environment Agency plan sets out options to reduce the risk of flooding to 2,000 properties across 10 York communities over the next five years. It looks at a range of potential flo
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a second contract for Phase II of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project in Port Monmouth. This $23 million Contract 2, awarded to Anselmi & DeCiccio of Maplewood, NJ, includes constructing a levee/floodwall, pump station and a storm gate, tying
ABT Associates/Kresge Foundation has released a new report called “Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities”. The report included a visit to Avalon, New Jersey as Senior Analyst Alexis St. Juliana met with Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi, Avalon Business Administrator Scott Wahl,
Central Dredging Association (CEDA) will hold its next webinar – An overview of slurry transport models – on Tuesday, November 22nd 2016. The webinar is the 5th webinar in the CEDA Series of Webinars on Dredging Technology. This Practitioner level webinar is meant for professionals working in the fi
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has just launched the fourth edition of its Creating New HORIZONS magazine. “In our magazine we offer fresh perspectives from external experts and present projects and approaches that push back operational and technological boundaries,” Boskalis said. In this new edit
An Environment Agency field team has recently finished re-aligning the Newbridge Cut away from the River Windrush. In addition to this the team is reinforcing the bank of the River Windrush near Standlake in Oxfordshire. The work forms part of a program of maintenance works in the Thames Valley to e
In March 2016 Boskalis started work on Stage 1 of one of the largest nature restoration projects in Western Europe: the Marker Wadden in the Netherlands. The Marker Wadden, to be developed in phases over the coming years, is aimed at restoring the ecosystem in the Markermeer/IJmeer to allow nature t
