Tap water contamination, which had affected some 10,000 residents in a south China town earlier this week, was caused by freakish weather and sand dredging, which stirred up manganese from the riverbed into the water, environment experts said.
“The riverbed near the water plants’ intake area might have a gravel layer with high levels of manganese,” [...]
Large-scale dredging to help restore Grand Lake St. Marys to health could be completed within two to two-and-a-half years, according to Larry Matteson Jr., vice president of an Iowa-based company with more than 30 years of dredging experience.
At the invitation of state Rep. Jim Zehringer, R-Fort Recovery, Matteson recently visited the 13,500-acre lake, currently shut [...]
For many years there have been little ground-breaking developments in the world of dredging according to Tore Hansen-Tangen, Executive Chairman of Viking Development Group.
“The vessels have become larger, the control systems and other equipment have become more sophisticated, but the industry still uses the same types of vessels and basically the same methods as [...]
CEDA as an official stakeholder has been participating in the work relating to the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) from the second part of 2009.
This concise document introduces briefly the MSFD and explains why and in what way is CEDA involved in the discussions relating to the implementation of the Directive.
Why [...]
Port expansion, channel deepening, as well as the demand of improved coastal engineering and management is driving massive dredging activities in Asia. In the meantime,government authorities and port corporations are facing the severe challenges of conducting more engineering and expansion projects with very limited land resources.Reclamation therefore, is playing a strategic role for ports to [...]
Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries announced today that it has deployed its first of many real-time monitoring stations that will monitor the northern reaches of the Hudson River. Launched in cooperation with General Electric, the new data collection platform, designated “B2,” is the latest addition to Beacon Institute’s River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON). [...]
Italdraghe, the Italian dredger builder, has designed a dredging bucket that is ideal for small scale dredging jobs in narrow canals and waterways involving the removal of only a few thousand cubic meters of material.
This bucket can be fitted on to either land-based or floating excavators and features a range of additional quick change tools [...]
Transnet National Ports Authorities (TNPA)
Transnet Ltd. is the largest state-owned enterprise active in the logistics chain in South Africa. Every day, the company delivers thousands of tons of goods in and around the country. It administers and maintains railways, trains, logistic centres, fuel and gas pipelines, pump stations and cargo terminals in seaports. So it [...]
Ellicott Dredges’ numerous recent successes in diverse dredge mining applications reaffirm its role as global leader in this sector.
The company announces dredge sales and deliveries to six different countries, for eight different types of minerals, employing multiple technologies, each appropriate to the specific application and its technical requirements. The eight sales described below show [...]
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of Bathy DataBASE 3.0. A robust and efficient data management system is considered essential by those progressive organizations who have a desire to manage, visualize and analyze their ever-expanding volumes of bathymetry data. This need is now becoming more apparent to other users of high density X,Y,Z [...]
