As the three-day event which brought together more than 600 experts including civil engineers dredging companies contractors consultants project developers water companies knowledge institutes financial institutions and insurance companies governments and NGOs progressed the consensus was that governance does not mean government alone. We all bear responsibility in the decision-making process about deltas water management and risk planning. Read More

Re: East Coast Dredging Issues Widely Covered at Charleston Meeting IDR November/December 2008 page 6. The report presented by Dena Dickerson at the ICHDMG meeting regarding the “environmental window” imposed… Read More

Technical paper abstracts for WODCON XIX are due on September 30 2009. The conference will be held from September 8 through 12 2010 in Grand Epoch City Beijing China. Read More

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation’s inland waterways system a grade of D-minus in its recently-released Infrastructure Report Card. The low grade is because of the poor… Read More

In April 2009 the Port of Seattle will take delivery of a new Ross Laboratories Inc. Model 960 survey system. The system will replace the ports 950 Surveyor which has been in use since 2002. The Model 960 adds side scan and sub-bottom profiling to the Ports surveying capabilities. Read More

When U.S. Airways flight 1549 crash landed in the Hudson River on January 15 dredging contractor Donjon Marine and industrial diving company Randive Inc. were soon on the spot to stabilize the aircraft which had begun floating downriver right after impact. Weeks Marine was later subcontracted to retrieve the plane from the water. Read More

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