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Crab Bank restoration in full swing
Week one of the Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary Restoration project has been completed, according to the Army Corp’ Charleston District. For this project, the contractor – Norfolk Dredging Company will place approximately 660,000 cubic yards of compatible material from the Charleston Harbor Deepening pr
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Ashtabula River delisted from the Areas of Concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that the Ashtabula River has been removed from the binational list of the Great Lakes’ most environmentally degraded areas after decades of work. In the 1980s, the United States and Canada identified 43 “Areas of Concern” on the Great Lakes
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Muskegon Lake dredging VIDEO
Michigan-based environmental services firm Taplin Group, LLC yesterday presented a video of the dredging operations at Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve. The project involves restoration of the nature preserve that was polluted from foundry sands and metal contamination, in addition to being heavily ove
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Funds secured for Mid-Bay Island project
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin recently announced a major victory for the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the economic vitality of the Port of Baltimore as he secured Senate Appropriations Committee approval of $37.5 million for the first year of construction for the Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Re
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EPA taking over the Raritan Bay scheme
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials announced last week that EPA will take over completing the design plans for the Seawall Sector of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site in Old Bridge Township and Sayreville, New Jersey. After reviewing the most recent draft of the design plan prepared by
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Sustainable protection of the Belgian coast VIDEO
This spring, Jan De Nul’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Pedro Álvares Cabral, sailing on 100% second-generation biofuel, successfully restored the beach of Knokke. In order to protect the Belgian coast, JDN raised the beach by pumping ashore a large quantity of sand. In this way, the compan
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Creating islands in the Baltic Sea area
The Polish cities of Szczecin and Świnoujście are home to one the largest ports in the Baltic Sea area. The port of Świnoujście is situated directly by the sea. Szczecin’s harbour is 68 kilometres inland and is accessible to moderately smaller vessels. The channel that connects both port areas is cu
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Setting course towards a sustainable future
By 2050, the world will look completely different. To face the biggest global challenges, Jan De Nul combines all forces in its new corporate programme the Code Zero. Zero Breaches, Zero Waste, Zero Accidents and Zero Emissions: are the four pillars of JDN’s new programme. However, the focus is not
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WODCON XXIII – Call for Abstracts
WODCON XXIII, the twenty-third World Dredging Congress, will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 16th to 20th May 2022. The organising committee is inviting abstract submissions for the papers, presentations and panel sessions, that will make up the main body of the technical and business programme
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Two environmental projects honored at WEDA summit
Each year at its annual Summit, the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) presents Environmental Excellence Awards, recognizing projects that demonstrate environmental awareness. This year the winners were announced during the opening ceremony of the virtual Summit held from June 15 to 17. WEDA’s Envi
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Third ‘Meet the Experts’ webinar next week
This June, IADC will organise their third Meet the Experts webinar, this time the topic is about the importance of sustainability in dredging. In this webinar, taking place on June 16, the topic of sustainability in dredging will be linked to the Saly Coastal Protection Project in Senegal. Van Oord
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Cedar Bayou dredging underway
Aransas County has started the Cedar Bayou dredging project that will, once complete, result in substantial benefits to the coastal and estuarine ecosystem and marine fisheries habitat. Cedar Bayou is located near Rockport, Texas and is a tidal inlet between San Jose Island and Matagorda Island, two
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Old Colwyn Bay scheme rated as outstanding
The proposed Old Colwyn coastal defence scheme in North Wales has been rated as outstanding for its strategy and design stages by sustainability assessment provider CEEQUAL. With a 32-40% reduction in carbon, it is the first project in the world to be rated as outstanding under the latest guidelines
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Environment Agency reaching net zero
The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, as it sets out its roadmap to hit net zero as an organisation by 2030. The comprehensive new roadmap dem