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  2. Dredging - Wikipedia

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    Dredging can be done to recover materials of commercial value; these may be high value minerals or sediments such as sand and gravel that are used by the construction industry. [2] Dredging is a four-part process: loosening the material, bringing the material to the surface (together extraction), transportation and disposal. [1]

  3. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded in 1890 as the partnership of William A. Lydon & Fred C. Drews and was named Lydon & Drews dredging company. Early projects included the shoreline structures for the Chicago's Columbian Exposition. The company soon had satellite operations throughout the Great Lakes. It was renamed the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company ...

  4. Drain delay: Why Sharon Lake dredging project is on hold

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    The project will cost $11.4 million, most of it from park levy money and $790,000 from grants. What will happen to the fish? Some will escape into Sharon Creek through the small drain in the dam.

  5. Hydrographic survey - Wikipedia

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    Hydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore wind farms, offshore oil exploration and drilling and related activities. Surveys may also be conducted to determine the route of subsea cables such as telecommunications cables, cables ...

  6. Project engineering - Wikipedia

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    Project engineers are often project managers with qualifications in engineering or construction management. Other titles include field engineer, construction engineer, or construction project engineer. In smaller projects, this person may also be responsible for contracts and will be called an assistant project manager.

  7. Category:Dredging - Wikipedia

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  8. Hydraulic fill - Wikipedia

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    Hydraulic fill is likely to be the most economic method of construction. Even when the source material lacks sufficient elevation, it can be elevated to the sluice by a dredge pump. In the construction of a hydraulic fill dam, the edges of the dam are defined by low embankments or dykes which are built upward as the fill progresses. The sluices ...

  9. Dredge drag head - Wikipedia

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    A dredge drag head is used by a trailing suction hopper dredger to collect sand from the sea floor.. Dredge drag head The dredge drag head of a suction dredge barge on the Vistula River, Warsaw, Poland The same dredge drag head and the suction pipe.