Environment
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$1M grant for wetland restoration in Georgetown County, SC
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $1 million National Coastal Wetlands Conservation G...

Major milestone for the Esquimalt Harbour project
After months of hard work, the $162.5 million-Esquimalt Harbour Remediation Project has reached a ma...

Construction of the Marker Wadden islands (VIDEO)
More than four years after the start of the construction of the Marker Wadden in the Markermeer Lake...

EPA finalizes cleanup plan for Housatonic River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Revised Final Permit for the Rest of Riv...

Important award for Royal IHC in China
This week, Royal IHC won an Excellent Paper Award at the Technical Forum of CHIDA, which took place ...

Gowanus Canal dredging in full swing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently began historic full-scale dredging of Gowanu...

Webinar on best practice guideline for dredge plume modelling
CSIRO and the Western Australian Marine Science Institution will next week, Friday 11th December, ho...

Silt curtains and the sediment control
As the environmental impact and regulatory constraints associated with water pollution become an inc...

Beneficial use of dredged sediment in the Great Lakes
The Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District will next week hold a ceremony celebrating the complet...

Flinders Port approach works
The Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed that there has been ‘no adverse impact to the seag...

Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) takes place online
2020 is the international Year of Action on climate adaptation. Van Oord is ahead of the wave: last ...

Ryerson Creek Outfall dredging project
In an effort to de-list the Muskegon Lake Area of Concern, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

JDN achieves remarkable CO2 reduction with MAN engines
Jan De Nul Group’s trailing suction hopper dredger, ‘Alexander von Humboldt’, recently complet...

Tackling historic pollution in De Lieve
Envisan, the environmental subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group, has started remediation works to treat th...

CEDA-IADC course ‘Dredging for sustainable infrastructure’ in December
How to be creative in handling risks and opportunities associated with dredging for sustainable infr...

Get ready for the next CEDA webinar
Setting turbidity limits is a challenging task and requires a general understanding of dredging proc...

Van Oord testing the use of biofuel
Following the biofuel pilot last year, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger HAM 316 has again ...

First heavy-duty electric excavator in the Netherlands
This week, Van Oord commissioned the first heavy-duty fully electric hydraulic excavator in the Neth...