Hollandsch Diep disposal site formally opened
The 2nd of October marked the official opening of the Hollandsch Diep dredged spoil disposal site in The Netherlands. The new facility, built on a section of river linked to the Rhine and the Meuse, will allow the Department of Public Works to store polluted dredged spoil from the lower reaches of the two rivers. Forecasts suggest that it will be 20 years before the site is full. Once the site is full, it will be covered with clean soil and turned into a nature area.
The Sassenplaat Consortium, of which Van Oord Nederland is a member, began working on the design for the disposal site in December 2005. The consortium partners spent the next two and a half years excavating the site, which is 1,300m in length and 500m in width, next to the Sassenplaat Island nature reserve. With a depth of approximately 32m, the site can store approximately 10.2 cu/m of spoil.
In addition to the site construction, the project also involved expanding the Sassenplaat nature reserve, replenishing the Hoogezandsche Gorzen mud flats and covering 590 hectares of polluted riverbed.
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