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1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank)

2. REPORT DATE

3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED

Final report

April 2000

4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE

5. FUNDING NUMBERS

Innovations in Dredging Technology: Equipment, Operations, and Managment

WU 33092

6. AUTHOR(S)

T. Neil McLellan, Robert J. Hopman

7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)

8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION

REPORT NUMBER

ERDC TR-DOER-5

9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)

10. SPONSORING/MONITORING

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center,Waterways

AGENCY REPORT NUMBER

Experiment Station, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199;

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Washington, DC 20314-1000

11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

12a. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words)

The lack of a programmatic or systematic approach to the demonstration, evaluation, and reporting of new or innovative

applications of dredging technology in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging program has lead to a study of the state of

the practice worldwide. Innovative dredging technology in the context of this study is defined as technology that is significantly

better, cheaper, or faster than existing technologies, and that is not broadly applied due to limited knowledge or established

standards within the engineering community. Initially, a literature review was used to identify the vast array of innovative tech-

nologies and categories of equipmnet and procedures pertaining to dredging operations with empahsis on European applica-

tions. Several hundred documents and technologies were researched pertaining to innovative dredging technologies and

procedures. A series of site visits were made to several institutions, dredge contractors, port authorities, and project sites in

Belgium, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Germany. Over 176 technology fact sheets were prepared and each fact

sheet contains the following types of information about that technology: technology name, category, description, company/

organization, projects completed, information sources, and literature references.

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15. NUMBER OF PAGES

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128

16. PRICE CODE

17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 18. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT

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OF ABSTRACT

UNCLASSIFIED

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