Defland Coast project gets under way
Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van Holland which was due to start pumping sand in late November/early December in order to create new dunes between Hoek van Holland and ’ s-Gravenzande.
The new dunes will compensate for the loss of nature arising from the Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project. Work on the new nature reserve is scheduled to be completed by late March 2009. It will take 10 to 20 years before the nature reserve has fully matured.
The Consortium will then continue the work of reinforcing the ‘weak link’ in the Delfland coastal defences, working through the spring and summer of 2009 along the coast to the south and north of Ter Heijde.
