Reservoir Dredging – World Organization of Dredging Associations

WODA Reservoir Dredging Working Group

Progress update 03-05-2021

During the past half year, the WODA Reservoir Dredging Working Group (ResDred WG) has made steady progresses. Via a series of discussions, the three subgroups have created their own outlines according to the following three subjects:

Subgroup 1: Building Inventory of the main problems regarding reservoir sedimentation
Subgroup 2: Characterization of the different types of reservoirs
Subgroup 3: Building the inventory of solutions

In April, the three separate outlines are combined into one overall outline, which consists of 25 chapters in total. An overall WG meeting was held on April 30th, where the overall outline has been temporarily approved.

Fig. 1. 3rd overall meeting of WODA ResDred WG on 30-04-2021

We are also happy to have our new member, Mr. Maarten Molhoek, business development manager of Royal IHC (CEDA), to join the WG as the 40th member.

A preliminary schedule for the WG has been created and displayed as below:

The following phases are marked as the milestones:

1	9/30/2020		Working Group established
2	10/1/2020	11/30/2020	Assign members to three subgroups
3	12/1/2020	3/31/2021	Develop Subgroups outlines
4	4/1/2021	5/31/2021	Develop overall outline
5	6/1/2021	6/30/2021	Assigning writing tasks
6	7/1/2021	11/30/2021	Writing by Subgroups members
7	12/1/2021	12/31/2021	Progress meeting of Subgroups
6	1/1/2022	4/30/2022	Writing by Subgroups members
8	5/1/2022	5/31/2022	Presentation at World Dredging Congress
6	6/1/2022	11/30/2022	Writing by Subgroups members
9	12/1/2022	2/28/2023	Entire document combined
10	3/1/2023	5/31/2023	Editing and approval by Working Group
11	6/1/2023	7/31/2023	Peer review
12	8/1/2023	9/30/2023	Final editing
13	10/1/2023		Release Final Publication

It is the faith of our WG that dredging will be one of the most effective solutions to address the sediment problems for reservoirs of the whole world!

Progress update 30-12-2020

The WODA Reservoir Dredging Working Group (ResDred WG), is established under the supervision of WODA Technical Orientation Committee (TOC). The goal of this working group is to develop dredging based solutions for the sedimentation problems in reservoirs worldwide.

A complete Terms of Reference (TOR) of the WG can be found via the following link:

https://www.westerndredging.org/phocadownload/WODA/WODAWG-Reservoir-Dredging-TOR-20200625.pdf

The working group has held its kick-off meeting on 30-09-2020. Due to the Covid-19 situation, currently all the WG activities are held online.

Fig. 2. Kick-off meeting of WODA ResDred WG on 30-09-2020

Every month the WG will hold an online meeting, where ideas are exchanged and specific topics are presented by our expert members. A Working Group Committee is organizing and managing the work and activities of the WG. The WG committee includes:

• Polite Laboyrie (Chairman)
• Johan Pennekamp (CEDA)
• Cees van Rhee (CEDA)
• David Padman (EADA)
• Xianguo Qian (EADA)
• Marcel Hermans (WEDA)
• Tim Randle (WEDA)
• Xiuhan Chen (General Secretary)

EADA

George Yesu Vedha Victor

EADA

Wenjun Yang

EADA

Alfredo Ranaldi

Tim Welp

WEDA

Paulo Henrique Alfenas da Silva

Bob Wetta

WEDA

Matt Unruh

WEDA

Jennifer A. Bountry

WEDA

In the first phase of the WG work (2020-09 ~ 2021-05), the WG is divided into the following three subgroups, and each subgroup will establish the knowledge base of its own topic:

Subgroup 1: Building Inventory of the main problems regarding reservoir sedimentation
Subgroup 2: Characterization of the different types of reservoirs
Subgroup 3: Building the inventory of solutions

The three subgroups will work on the topics of each own. It is expected that the preliminary research results of the three subgroups will be combined on Jun. 2021.

INFOMATION & CONTACTS

The WG will constantly provide updates on our research results via the WODA website (Reservoir Dredging – World Organization of Dredging Associations (woda.org)), the conferences of dredging associations, WODCON, dredging-relevant magazines, and scientific journals.

If you have questions or you are interested in joining us, you could either contact your regional dredging association (CEDA, EADA, WEDA) or send an email to the WG secretary-general Xiuhan Chen: X.Chen-1@TUDelft.NL.