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IDR News & Updates
Dr. John Herbich Dies at Age 85 - Jul 09 '08
Orion Marine Group Added to Russell 3000® and 2000® Stock Indexes - Jul 02 '08
Environmental Abstracts Due July 7 for Battelle Sediment Conference - Jun 27 '08
May/June 2008
Breaking News
25 Jul, 10:45 AM India's Dredging Corp. Apr-June net down 55 percent on ...
25 Jul, 09:52 AM Corps announces dredging to begin, renews safety warnings - ...
24 Jul, 11:41 PM Dredging Project Discussed for Marina del Rey - The Log ...
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Simulator Training at Texas A&M
Attendees and instructors at the Texas A&M Dredge Simulator Course in January included, from left, Brett Dupuis, Weeks Marine; Javier Peña, Weeks Marine; George McQuien, Mosaic Phosphates; Ricky Audibert, Weeks Marine; Charles Bunting, Camden Shipping; Sue Viola, Camden Shipping; Pierre Tetreault, McNally Construction; Lee Stelly, Weeks Marine; Pete deJong, DACS, Instructor; and Bob Randall, Instructor.
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Measuring Geotextile Tube Capacity
Lowell Sieck and Russell Pickett’s paper on advanced geotextile tube design for dewatering dredge slurry includes a method of precisely determining the amount of material in a tube as it fills. Empirical equations are developed for each curve inscribed on the tube.
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Wish I Were In Rio
At the Western Dredging Association Brazil Chapter meeting, organizer Paulo Rodriguez, left, with Jack Fowler from Mississippi, and Beatriz Rodriguez on a balcony overlooking Rio de Janeiro. The chapter meeting featured talks on many topics of interest to the Brazilian dredging community, and drew attendees from all over the world.
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DSC Receives President's 'E' Award for Exports
This amphibious dredge working in Canada is one of the many exported units Dredging Supply Company delivered in recent years that won them the President's "E" Award for export. Company officers William Wetta, CEO, and Robert Wetta, president, met with President Bush in the oval office on May 20 to receive the award and the president's personal congratulations.
IDR Editorial
June 09, 2008
For our Environmental and Industrial dredging feature we are privileged to have two articles on using geotextile tubes for dewatering dredged material. Russell Pickett, the co-author of the article b...
Contract News
CONTRACT AWARDS March 21, 2008 through May 15, 2008 - Jun 27 '08
Dredging Contract Awards, February 22, 2008 through April 22, 2008 - Jun 27 '08
December 5 through February 5 - Jun 27 '08
