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Van Oord ACZ Chosen for Kent Coastal Protection Contract
01 Dec 2003
Van Oord ACZ Ltd has been chosen by the UK's Shepway District Council to carry out one of the biggest coastal protection schemes ever planned for the district's shoreline. The £17m Hythe to Folkestone Harbour Coast Protection Scheme is designed to protect against flooding and erosion for the next 50 years.
The Newbury UK based subsidiary of the Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord ACZ has a strong track record in British coastal protection works, having worked on similar schemes in Norfolk, Clacton and the Isle of Sheppey.
The company is due to start work on the Hythe to Folkestone Harbour scheme in March 2004.
Funded by the British Government's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the scheme forms part of the Folkestone to Rye Coastal Defence Strategy Study and will use some 200,000 tonnes of rock to build a large headland and two other structures on the foreshore below the Folkestone Coastal Park.
A further rock groyne is proposed at Marine Parade, Hythe and 800,000 tonnes of shingle will be used to replenish the existing beaches. Improvements are also proposed to the existing concrete seawalls at Sandgate and Hythe together with 380m of new seawall at Riviera Beach, Folkestone.
MJ Information No: 18933
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