Dike design needs to focus more on the subsoil structure and variations over the entire length of a dike. The soil structure determines the risk of piping and varies more than is assumed in the present standards. This may represent a risk for the dike, but it can also be used to make local dike [...]
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As General Electric wraps up its Hudson River dredging project for the year, a report that shows the process is effectively removing toxic PCB pollution and highlights the need to expand the scope when it resumes next year in order to capture large pockets of contamination that are currently not slated for cleanup. As GE [...]
The Premier’s dissatisfaction with Gladstone Ports Corporation is welcome after past breaches of Gladstone Harbour’s turbidity limits were largely ignored, but it must trigger real change to the dredging operation in the Harbour if it is to be anything more than another opportunity to install the party faithful at the top of a government-owned corporation. [...]
Turbidity data released today by Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) show that GPC has breached its Environmental Authority again by exceeding the turbidity limit for five days running, and government must now intervene to protect the Harbour and the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. “This is symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with our management of [...]
The Queensland Greens say that the environment movement is buzzing with rumours of suppression of a University of Queensland study on Gladstone Harbour by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. ‘Last week we had the same denials and misleading statements on the state of the harbour from Campbell Newman as we saw from the [...]
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The State Senate unanimously voted to advance a resolution that makes it clear that only south Carolina representatives can spend South Carolina’s tax dollars. The resolution conclusively settles any remaining question that the Savannah River Maritime Commission not a bistate panel is solely responsible for handling state issues relating to dredging the Savannah River. The [...]
APM Terminals Crane & Engineering Services’ Managing Director, Halfdan Ross, discussed solutions to the challenges presented by the latest and future generation of Ultra-Large Container Vessels (ULCV) that confront port and terminal operation and design at the TOC Container Supply Chain Asia Conference in Hong Kong. Addressing the topic “Terminal Planning & Operations: Driving New [...]
![Australia: Government Must Review Approvals for Gladstone Dredging, Says Senator]()
The current suspension of dredging at Gladstone Harbour is not related to environmental factors, Gladstone Port Corporation has said… By Laura Harding (news) Source: news, October 27, 2011
![Dredging & Land Reclamation Asia 2011: The Must-Attend Conference (Singapore)]()
Last year when Ramesh Sandrasinghi of Westports Malaysia walked through the entrance to Dredging & Land Reclamation Asia he knew that this wasn’t your run of the mill dredging conference. Immediately after the conference, Sandrasinghi is quoted as saying, “This is the ‘must-attend’ program of the year for anyone in the port industry.” However, in [...]
![Dredging at Central Queensland Must Be Suspended, Australian Greens Say]()
Mass dredging off central Queensland to make way for the booming coal seam gas industry must be suspended until science shows it’s not… (skynews) Source: skynews, September 27, 2011;
