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Dredging Consultancy

Overview

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) is able, by virtue of its interdisciplinary team, to provide the dredging industry with a comprehensive service from licensing to monitoring. This capability can be offered as a total package or piecemeal to those seeking to dredge capital, maintenance or aggregate material. Services include:

  • Consultations
  • Contract Preparation
  • Licences
    - Maintenance
    - Capital Beneficial
  • Beneficial Use Reports
  • Site Investigations
  • Environmental Assessments
  • Sediment sampling
  • DEFRA requirements
  • Particle size analysis
  • Chemical analysis
  • Benthic surveys
  • Environmental Assessments
  • Field Surveys
    - Hydrographic surveys
    - Current surveys

  • Environmental Impact Studies carried out on the dredging activity and on spoil relocation
  • Environmental monitoring
    • - silt in suspension
      - dissolved oxygen
      - hydrographic surveys
      - saltmarsh surveys
      - benthic sampling
      - survey design
      - density measurements

We can also offer project management, post project appraisals and report writing. We can arrange, manage and report on geophysical surveys to give site characterisation using sidescan, acoustic doppler profiling and diver inspection.