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Alternative disposal strategy Walsoorden - feasibility study
Parent project: New disposal strategy for the Westerschelde, more
Period: 2002 till November 2003
Status: Completed
  • Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Antwerpen (GHA), more, proposer
  • Port of Antwerp Expert Team (PAET), more, external adviser
  • Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken; Vlaams Ministerie Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken; Departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken; Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium (WL), more, executant
  • Hochschule Bremen; Institut für Wasserbau (IWA), more, subcontractor
  • Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu; Rijkswaterstaat; Dienst Zeeland; Meetadviesdienst (WVM), more, subcontractor
  • Projectdirectie ontwikkelingsschets Schelde-estuarium (ProSes), more, proposer
The new idea of the alternative disposal strategy was investigated by Flanders Hydraulics Research. The Walsoorden sandbar which had been assigned by PAET as a pilot case was the study area. The research methodology as well as the evaluation of the feasibility of the disposal strategy based on the research results was performed by PAET.

The study of FHR was funded by PROSES, and a second opinion was performed by an international expert group (Berlamont, Hamm, Stive, van der Kreeke, Dyer). The second opinion confirmed the results of the feasibility research.