Remu Oy’s Big Float E22 with Hyundai 220 is currently busy working on a very important restoration project in Lithuania.
The Nemunas River and the Curonian Lagoon from Kaunas to Klaipeda in Lithuania form an inland waterway of international importance E41 – part of the Trans-European Transport Network.
The Nemunas’ navigation is limited novadays due to silt and litter accumulation along the channel.
Sedimentation occurs due to poor technical condition of the special hydraulic engineering structures – buns (dumbs), built along the river.
To reduce the sedimentation of the navigation channel, it is necessary to renovate the existing buns and, if necessary, install new ones.
Restoration works and building of new buns are being carried out using Big Float amphibious excavators, manufactured by Remu Oy.
Upon completion, the modernized buns will form a straighter waterway, which will be naturally deepened by the narrowed current flow, and part of the sediments will settle in between the buns.
Photo: Remu