CEDA announces that the leading dredging event WODCON XX, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, will open its doors on 3 of June. Dredging is essential to maintaining and improving our quality of life and economic well-being. This is achieved through creating and maintaining water-based infrastructure such as ports and navigation channels, creating new land [...]
The Senate deliberated on the motion titled ‘Emergency Preparedness for 2013 Flood and Rainfall Prediction. This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level [...]
Following the launch of the IHC Beaver® 65 DDSP in February, the first vessel has been sold to Advanced Construction Company, a member of the Al Geithy Group, based in Saudi Arabia. Testing was successful completed at IHC Merwede’s shipyard in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands, in early March and delivery to Jeddah will be organised in [...]
South Pasadena, Fla.-State Representative Kathleen Peters announces that the Florida Legislature has secured money for the Pinellas beach renourishment project FY 2013-2014. $3.7 million has been designated to Treasure Island and Long Key, matched by $13.7 million in federal dollars. Funding comes after beaches on the East Coast were affected by Hurricane Sandy and will [...]
Universiteit Twente, Universiteit Utrecht and Deltares will organize the mini symposium ‘Adaptive Delta Management: How science can support decision making under uncentainty’ on Thursday 20 June. “The future is uncertain. Still, we have to make decisions, e.g. on how we want to develop and protect our living environment under these uncertain futures. Deltaic areas face [...]
Low water levels at Kanopolis Reservoir have made all but one boat ramp unusable this spring. And that ramp, located at Langley Point in Kanopolis State Park, has been difficult for boaters due to shallow water. To improve boating conditions near the ramp, Kanopolis State Park staff have been overseeing a dredging operation. Crane Rental [...]
From June 10 through 21, 2013, TID’s annual Beaver Engineer Training will take place at TID’s training facilities in the Netherlands. This two-week training programme is aimed at (future) crew of IHC Beaver dredgers, IHC Merwede’s range of durable and highly efficient standardised cutter dredgers of which over 700 have been supplied worldwide. High efficiency, [...]
ICE’s Maritime Expert Panel released a discussion paper entitled The Role of Coastal Engineers in the Delivery of No Net Loss through Biodiversity Offsetting. A working group of the Maritime Expert Panel, led by Jan Brooke, delivered the paper which explores the concept of biodiversity offsetting, the opportunities for its application in coastal areas of [...]
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has announced a plan for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard dredging project, located in Kittery, ME. This development project consists of dredging at berthing spaces and dry dock entrances at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME. Work includes acceptance of Government’s pre-dredge hydrographic survey, lobster mitigation actions, dredging, dewatering/amending, sampling, [...]
DEC, the environmental subsidiary of DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering), has recently started implementing the remediation and management measures established for the calamity zone in Wetteren, where the soil was contaminated with acrylonitrile following a serious train accident. The highly delicate operation is carried out by order of SNCB Holding (Infrabel) in accordance with [...]
