Dredging of the Queen Pool at Blenheim Palace in Oxford will be paused over Christmas and re-start in the spring, reports the Blenheim. The decision to temporarily halt the dredge, which is being carried out by leading wet civil engineering contractor, Land & Water, was taken due to weather conditio
The Environment Agency is about to begin work on the Canvey Island Southern Shoreline revetment replacement in the county of Essex, England. Work on the £75 million project that will keep homes and businesses in Canvey Island protected from flooding will begin early next year, according to the EA. C
Earlier this year, Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis started work on the Texel beach nourishment project in the Netherlands. According to Rijkswaterstaat, maintenance of the Texel coastline kicked off in early September and will continue until the spring of 2023. For this project, Boskalis will dredge an
Following the severe weather that hit Hayling Island in late November, emergency work is now underway to restore the beach to a high level of protection. To restore the beach profile again, Coastal Partners are undertaking emergency beach recycling works; extracting shingle from Hayling Golf Club la
Jackson has completed work on a multi-million pound project to raise a 30km flood bank on the Ouse Washes Flood Storage Reservoir. Following 6 years of construction, the project maintains the standard of flood protection to more than 2,000 properties and 67,000ha of agricultural land. The raising of
Littlehampton Harbour has just announced the successful completion of another dredging campaign at the harbour entrance. The harbour is located at the mouth of the River Arun on the south coast between Chichester and Worthing, close to the South Downs National Park. In order to maintain safe access
Rohde Nielsen recently started work on a beach nourishment project at Lønstrup in Denmark. According to the company, all the sand comes from a maintenance project in Hirtshals Port, where the hopper dredger Freja R, is dredging approximately 190.000m3. Without the new sand, waves and currents would
Jan De Nul Group has successfully finished work on the Matinhos beach renourishment project in Brazil. According to Dieter Dupuis, Project Manager at Jan De Nul, last week – in the presence of the state government of Paraná – Jan De Nul Group concluded the beach enlargement in Matinhos. A stretch of
The seasonal build-up of shingle overtopping the western breakwater into the harbour entrance (known locally as the “Shoal Bank”) is once again due for dredging in order to maintain safe access to the harbour for larger vessels. As reported by Littlehampton Harbour, on Monday 31st October, a 25-metr
ML Dredging is about to complete maintenance dredging of the largest marina in the UK – the Brighton Marina. This season’s large-scale dredging works will be finished by the end of October with the big ML dredger leaving the marina, Premier Marinas said. Since arriving onsite, ML Dredging crews have
Baggerbedrijf De Boer BV/Dutch Dredging is about to begin work on the next maintenance dredging campaign in the Port of Waterford, South East Ireland. As reported, the hopper dredger Amazone will next week conduct dredging activities in the vicinity of Duncannon Bar, Cheekpoint, and Belview. The mai
For many decades Boskalis has been successfully carrying out beach and foreshore replenishment work to strengthen coastlines throughout Europe. The company is currently working on the Wadden Island of Texel and near Noordwijk in the Netherlands, and in the spring of 2023 on the beach of the Wadden I
Rohde Nielsen announced today successful completion of a beach nourishment project in Germany at the southwest beach of the island Föhr. According to the company, this beach nourishment was more difficult than usual, because of the long sailing distance of approx. 82 km between the winning area loca
The highways and waterways agency Rijkswaterstaat has just announced that preparations are underway for the beach nourishment works at Camperduin and Petten-Zuid, in the Dutch province of North Holland. As reported, the preparation began last week and beach nourishments are set to commence in early
