ENVIRONMENTAL - Page 5 of 7

Creating Horseshoe Bend Island, Atchafalaya River, Louisiana

As mounds of dredged material placed upriver are dispersed by the river’s current, an island with enriched wildlife has emerged.

Aquapuncture©: Sustainable Future of Inland Waterways

Revitalising and redesigning inland water transportation routes and recreational waterfronts transforms them into vital and viable economic and social engines.

Faunaguard: A Scientific Method for Deterring Marine Fauna

Marine fauna is sensitive to underwater dredging sounds. Scientific research indicates that inducing the fauna to leave an area temporarily before the start of a project minimises serious impacts. And the marine life returns when the dredging is finished.

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.