Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company Wins Safety Excellence Award
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation has been awarded the Western Dredging Association’s (WEDA) 2017 Annual Safety Excellence Award for a Dredging Project. The company received the award for its work on the John Redmond Dredging Project, which was performed by its Rivers and Lakes Division under contract to the Kansas Water Office.
The John Redmond Dredging Project was a design/construct dredging contract that included the hydraulic dredging of 3,000,000 cubic yards of material from the John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington, Kansas and pumped to five contractor-provided Confined Disposal Facilities. It was the first contract in the United States for a State to dredge on Federal Property. The CDFs included the design and construction of 41,350 lineal feet of dike using 775,000 cubic yards of compacted fill. Dredge material was excavated and pumped through five miles of pipeline placed over three existing gas pipelines, one river crossing, and five road crossings to the CDFs. The CDFs will eventually be returned to agricultural use.
WEDA’s annual Safety Excellence Awards are presented to organizations and project teams with exceptional safety performance in support of the WEDA Safety Commission’s goal of “raising the awareness of safety in the dredging workplace.” Thirteen organizations have received the award since its inception in 2008.
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