Reclamation of beaches, islands and embankments
Beach and Embankment Reclamation
Beach development is a rather specialised type of work that requires experience and knowledge in hydraulic engineering design. It is necessary to take into account the properties of the soil available in the work area, the characteristics of the site itself, the size of the plot to be filled, the presence and nature of vegetation and other details. When reclaiming beaches and embankments, it is also important to accurately determine the future fill height and to select the quality and grain size of the sand, sand-gravel mix or soil.
Beach nourishment by extracting sand from the bottom of a water body using hydromechanisation with a dedicated discharge pipeline is the simplest, most accessible and most cost-effective way of developing land for embankments and beach areas. Compared with trucking in quarry sand, the material from the water body is extracted completely free of charge, so there is no need to pay for every cubic metre. The unique properties of river sand give the future beach a natural slope, and the material itself is very clean and free of foreign impurities. Finally, unlike trucked-in material, hydraulically placed sand makes it possible not only to create a level and stable base for the beach area, but also to form a sandy zone with a gentle shoreline slope that is pleasant for holidaymakers.
The same method is ideally suited for reclaiming embankments and their foundations, approaches to bridges and piers, various hydraulic structures and utility networks.
Island Reclamation with Dredgers
Given the riverside landscape typical of Ukraine, it is clear that the improvement of beaches, recreation areas, sandy and other territories is in most cases only possible by artificial means. In the past, entire areas for summer-house cooperatives, residential or industrial construction and other purposes were created on flooded, swampy and low-lying land by costly, systematic trucking of soil or quarry sand. Today, however, there is a simpler, more accessible and more cost-effective approach to most of these tasks: reclamation of beaches, islands and embankments using powerful hydraulic pumping equipment and dredgers.
«Dredgers of Ukraine» carries out a wide range of beach, embankment and island reclamation works throughout the country using high-performance equipment and dredgers of various classes. Over many years of successful work on the market, we have built up an extensive equipment fleet that allows us to offer our clients the following services:
- hydraulic soil filling to develop new coastal areas for various purposes;
- reclamation of islands of any size in water bodies of any origin;
- reclamation of soil for embankments and foundations for shoreline development;
- beach nourishment using hydraulic sand mining and delivery of the sand to the designated area;
- extraction of sand and soil from the bottom of water bodies;
- construction of ponds and reservoirs, expansion of water areas, deepening of the bottom and much more.
Island Reclamation with Dredgers
Current legislation provides for the possibility of creating various types of hydraulic structures in water bodies. In particular, in the case of an artificial water body, the organisation that owns the lake, reservoir, pond or any other water body is entitled to manage its resources independently and to build structures of any type within its water area. In this regard, hydraulic reclamation of artificial islands is becoming a very popular service. The purposes of such work can vary widely — from installing bridge supports and laying utility networks to creating decorative islands and secluded recreation areas.
In the past, work of such complexity often had to be abandoned because of its high cost, the technical shortcomings of the methods used and a number of other reasons. Modern dredgers with high-performance equipment have easily freed us from these problems. Today, creating a small island in the middle of a lake or in a river channel is an entirely feasible task — the main thing is to entrust it to professionals. A dredger with modern industrial equipment eliminates the need to pay for trucking in soil, saves time on all related tasks because it can work in the immediate vicinity of the island site, and guarantees clean, high-quality reclaimed soil. Today this method of island reclamation can be considered exceptionally efficient and justified from every point of view.
