Western Australia Maintenance Dredging Program Management

Requirements

The Department of Transport (DoT) is responsible for the maintenance of its facilities which extend along the Western Australian coast from Wyndham in the North to Esperance in the South.

We have, since 2000, held the contract for project management of the maintenance dredging programs at these 20+ facilities. This work includes the ongoing monitoring of all facilities and periodic maintenance dredging to provide safe access for both public users and fishing fleets. Additionally, we manage the dredging of offshore channels, coastal inlets and river/estuarine channels, as well as coastal bypassing works undertaken with land-based plants.

Major projects include annual mechanical sand bypassing at the Mandurah and Dawesville entrance channels, periodic dredging at Carnarvon, Onslow, Bandy Creek (Esperance), Murchison River (Kalbarri) mouth and Denham, and various dredging, weed trawling and sand excavation/bypassing campaigns.

The scope of works undertaken by us under this contract includes the planning, supervision, environmental management and commercial contract management through to overall management of the program.

Solutions

• Obtain environmental approvals (including offshore dumping through the Department for Environment and Heritage)
• Provide full project management from preparation of tender documents to the completion of the works
• Management of the overall DoT maintenance dredging program and regular reporting of program status.

Benefits

• Geotechnical investigations
• Survey monitoring
• Project management
• Environmental approvals
• Maintenance dredging planning and supervision
• Sand bypassing works
• Marine health and safety management.