Last Friday (26 March) marked the official opening of the Hythe Ranges sea defenses scheme between Dymchurch Redoubt and Fisherman’s Beach. The virtual event was officially opened by Dr Martin Hurst, Chair of the Southern Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (SRFCC). Guests at the virtual ceremony i
The first phase of dredging on the River Steeping has come to an end two days ago, informs the Water Management Consortium. The main aim of the dredging operation was to remove sediment from targeted locations across 5.5km of waterway, between Thorpe Culvert and Dovecotes Farm, and 650m of the easte
In the Rotterdam area, a new motorway tunnel is under construction. Due to the challenging geological situation, the job has been done in various stages, using different equipment. One of the contractors on the project, Verboon Maasland, used Damen DOP submersible dredge pump for this tunneling proj
During the recent Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress in Moscow, FSUE Rosmorport shared the company’s dredging plans for 2021. According to the forecast, FSUE Rosmorport will dredge 28.3 million cbm of material in 2021 including 20 million cbm of capital dredging and 8.3 million c
Residents in 113,000 homes in Hull are now better protected from flooding as the Environment Agency’s £42 million Humber frontages scheme comes to fruition. The new, higher defences built by the EA along the estuary foreshore are now in place, ready to protect the city from tidal surges. The flood d
Baggerbedrijf De Boer – Dutch Dredging has started works on the removal of sediments from the Veerhaven port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Because the Veerhaven is a tidal port that has become increasingly shallower over time, the time has come to restore the depth. For the project, Dutch Dredging
Weeks Marine has successfully completed Morehead City Harbor dredging and beach nourishment project. The cutterhead dredge JS Chatry completed maintenance dredging in the “cutoff” range of the Morehead City Harbor on St. Patrick’s Day with concurrent beach nourishment along the shorelines of Ft. Mac
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company Plc (MTCC) has just released a couple of interesting updates about the ongoing dredging and land reclamation projects in the country. The first one was for the M. Dhiggaru land reclamation project. According to the company, MTCC today held an event there to
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District is about to resume Great Sodus, Charles Point breakwater repairs. According to USACE, the contractor Michigan-based Great Lakes Dock & Materials, L.L.C will resume repairs the first week of April 2021 to the east breakwater in Great Sodus Harbor, Wa
Over the past two years, since floods devastated levees along the Missouri River and its tributaries, the Army Corps’ Omaha District has made tremendous progress in restoring the damaged levees. To date, 44 contracts totaling $470 million have been awarded, with 35 of those now complete. The work so
New major dredging campaign is now underway at the Port of Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest and busiest container port and one of the largest in Europe. Last week, the tug Dutch Power towed backhoe dredger Nordic Giant (55m LOA) to begin dredging operations on Felixstowe’s number 7 berth. This stage of
Around 2.3 million cubic meters of material is to be dredged in Sabetta port in 2021-2022, including 1 million cbm in 2021 and 1.3 million cbm in 2022, according to Aleksandr Bengert, General Director of Hydrographic Company. During the recent “Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging” congress
Greater Sacramento, California, is considered one of the most at-risk regions in the United States for catastrophic flooding. Its location, at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers, has made it necessary to rely on an aging system of levees, weirs, and passes, as well as Folsom Dam up
Following completion of the beach management activities throughout February at Eastoke, stormy weather affected the south coast of England. Coastal Partners, part of Havant Borough Council, reported that the beach bore the brunt of these storms and prevented flooding from occurring. The storms cause
