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WEDA's Dredging Summit Held Virtually This Year
| 题名： | WEDA's Dredging Summit Held Virtually This Year |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | FRANK MCCORMACK |
| 摘要： | For the second year in a row, COV-ID-19 forced the Western Dredging Asso-ciation (WEDA) to adjust its plans for the organizations annual Dredging Summit & Expo. While WEDA canceled the 2020 in-stallment altogether, the association opted to move the 2021 event online. WEDA held the virtual Dredging Summit June 15-17.Spread across three consecutive after-noons, the 2021 virtual meeting covered a wide range of dredging-related topics, in-cluding beneficial use of dredge materials and sediment remediation, innovations for specific dredging applications, the role of dredging in offshore wind energy, the im-pacts of the latest Water Resources Devel-opment Act (WRDA 2020), and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.William Rae, a project engineer with RPS Evans-Hamilton who is involved with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Dredg-ing Quality Management Program (DQM),discussed how, at the beginning of 2020, the Corps' DQM program was doing quite well."We were preparing a rigorous field schedule to accommodate all the addi-tional QA checks," Rae said. "However,within a few months, the program, along with the entire nation, was grappling with how to deal with the pandemic." |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 15 |
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