WODA Reservoir Dredging Working Group
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.
Fig1. 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)
We are very proud of the status that, up to now, the WODA ResDred WG consists of 39 members coming from all the three sister associations under the WODA umbrella: the Central Dredging Association (CEDA), the Eastern Dredging Association (EADA) and the Western Dredging Association (WEDA).
Polite Laboyne
Chairman | CEDA
Xianguo Qian
EADA
Ebi Meshkati
CEDA
Louwrens Elzinga
CEDA
Olivier Marcus
CEDA
Mingjiang Zhao
EADA
George Yesu Vedha Victor
EADA
Wenjun Yang
EADA
Alfredo Ranaldi
WEDA
Meg Jonas
WEDA
Johan Pennekamp
CEDA
Marcel Hermans
WEDA
Jasper Wijnands
CEDA
Gerben van den Berg
CEDA
Fengkun Zhang
EADA
Jintang Zhang
EADA
Basanta Kumar Jena
EADA
Stan Ekren
WEDA
Jos Clement
WEDA
Matt Unruh
WEDA
Cees van Rhee
CEDA
Tim Randle
WEDA
Wei Shi
CEDA
Leon van Lent
CEDA
Shuai Jiang
EADA
Zhiqiang Fan
EADA
Yutaka Miyaji
EADA
Tim Welp
WEDA
Paulo Henrique Alfenas da Silva
WEDA
Michael Whelan
WEDA
Capt. David Padman
EADA
Xiuhan Chen
General Secretary
Chris van Son
CEDA
David Middlemiss
CEDA
Sritama Sarkar
EADA
Mridul Sarkar
EADA
Joost Noordermeer
EADA
Bob Wetta
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.