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Thames Dredging Tackles Sand Banks
The Environment Agency in the UK says an emergency workforce has started tackling some of the sandbanks in the River Thames caused by last winters exceptional floods.
The Vasco da Gama is the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built, with a hopper capacity of 33,000m 3, two dredge pumps complete with IHC technology and components, and a power of 2 x 8,000kW during shore discharge.
The Thames was adversely affected in several places, especially in its upper reaches.
The workforce has completed dredging the fairway above and below Benson Lock, at Shillingford and near Abingdon, but the Agency says much work remains to be completed.
