Each year at its annual Summit, the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) presents Environmental Excellence Awards, recognizing projects that demonstrate environmental awareness. This year the winners were announced during the opening ceremony of the virtual Summit held from June 15 to 17. WEDA’s Envi
This June, IADC will organise their third Meet the Experts webinar, this time the topic is about the importance of sustainability in dredging. In this webinar, taking place on June 16, the topic of sustainability in dredging will be linked to the Saly Coastal Protection Project in Senegal. Van Oord
Aransas County has started the Cedar Bayou dredging project that will, once complete, result in substantial benefits to the coastal and estuarine ecosystem and marine fisheries habitat. Cedar Bayou is located near Rockport, Texas and is a tidal inlet between San Jose Island and Matagorda Island, two
The proposed Old Colwyn coastal defence scheme in North Wales has been rated as outstanding for its strategy and design stages by sustainability assessment provider CEEQUAL. With a 32-40% reduction in carbon, it is the first project in the world to be rated as outstanding under the latest guidelines
The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, as it sets out its roadmap to hit net zero as an organisation by 2030. The comprehensive new roadmap dem
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, recently partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin work dredging contaminated sediment in a 7-mile stretch of Otter Creek which extends through Toledo and Oregon. Sediment in the lower 1.7 miles of Otter Creek is contaminated
Port of Baltimore together with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will tomorrow, Wednesday night at 5:30 pm, hold a webinar on the Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Restoration project. The purpose of this webinar is to provide information and discuss the Mid-Bay restoration project, a future dredg
New hybrid, water-injection dredger Maas has launched a programme of work on the Thames with a visit to the Port of Tilbury (POTL) on 27 April. Built for Van Oord by Kooiman Marine Group, Maas uses an innovative hybrid energy management system to reduce harmful CO2 emissions, by capturing residual h
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District has released results of tests of the dissolved oxygen (DO) injection system for the Savannah harbor deepening project. According to the Corps, the tests of the DO injection system prove that the multi-million-dollar apparatus successfully mitigates
Nova Scotia Lands Inc. is currently working on the Boat Harbour Remediation Project that will remove all sludge material from the harbour effluent treatment facility aeration stabilization basins. The Boat Harbour effluent treatment facility, located in north central Nova Scotia on the Northumberlan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the public comment period for its proposed plan to address contaminated sediment in the upper nine miles of the Lower Passaic River Study Area to June 14, 2021. The study area is for the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in Essex, Bergen, and P
In the maritime industry, there is a significant journey ahead in moving to more sustainable operations. While the objective is widely recognised, the relevant solutions have not yet been developed and the roadmap is still unclear. These challenges even transcend the maritime sector. For example, th
While dredging is often seen as a dirty and unattractive business, it plays a vital role in keeping ports and waterways around the world open for commerce, transport and recreation. Every year, billions of tonnes of sediment are carried down rivers and along coastlines where they settle onto sea and
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has announced its next webinar titled “A New PIANC Guideline for Managing Environmental Risks of Navigation Infrastructure Projects” will take place on Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1 PM EST. This joint webinar between PIANC, ERDC, and WEDA will focus on PIANC’s Environ
