The Port of Lisbon, Portugal: Maintenance Dredging in a Sensitive Environmental System
With dredging responsibility for 11 municipalities along the environmentally sensitive Tagus estuary, the Port Authority of Lisbon needed an integrated strategic dredging plan. After detailed studies, they got it.
Coral Relocation: A Mitigation Tool for Dredging and Reclamation Works at the Cruise Ship Terminal in Jamaica
To realise a state-of-the-art cruise terminal, a comprehensive environmental mitigation plan relocated some 150,000 soft and hard coral, sponges and numerous sea urchins, sea cucumbers, hermit crabs, conchs, sea stars and lobsters.
Marine Works Operations and Environmental Considerations When Building the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel
The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link connecting Scandinavia and continental Europe will most likely become a tunnel rather than a bridge, but how it will be dredged is still to be determined.
Validation of the Tass System for Predicting the Environmental Effects of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers
Models created by researchers using innovative software have been tested and validated by monitoring trailers during dredging operations.
Environmental Impacts in Beach Nourishment: A Comparison of Option
What is economically and environmentally better: obtaining sand for beach nourishment from an on-land quarry or from marine banks at sea?
Dredging Management Practices for the Environment: A Structured Selection Approach
PIANC Working Group Envicom 13 report distinguishes between Management Practices and Best MPs in providing environmental protection during dredging projects.
The Day After We Stop Dredging: A World Without Sediment Plumes?
To assess the environmental benefits of an “idyllic” world without dredging, the impacts of dredging activities are compared to the impacts of other human and natural sources of sediment plumes.
Environmental Monitoring for the Reconstruction of Vilufushi, Maldives
The sensitive coral reef environment surrounding Vilufushi demanded close attention and care as the island, which was devastated by the 2004 tsunami, was completely restored and enhanced.