Dredging is essential to the construction or maintenance of much of the infrastructure on which economic prosperity depends. It is an activity of which the wider public is largely unaware, but it is a field in which research has led to important developments in recent years. Increased understanding of dredging processes and advances in the design of equipment for a variety of new applications have gone hand in hand with increased awareness of the environmental consequences of human activity on almost every front.

CEDA provides a forum for the exchange of information on developments in dredging techniques and technology. The General Secretariat is based in Delft and the British Section is located at the ICE.

CEDA organises meetings, seminars and visits on topical subjects like aggregate dredging and environmental aspects of dredging or subjects of a more general nature. The international office organises congresses and courses in addition to publishing reports on special studies or workshops. CEDA also disseminates information on dredging subjects to members and other interested parties.

As a member you would be entitled to reduced attendance rates at events and information about the events of the British Section. You would also receive copies of the monthly magazine `Dredging + Port Construction News' free of charge. The CEDA newsletter is published periodically in the magazine.

For further details and for a copy of the application form please contact  Pat Marsh, email: adam.kirkup@ice.org.uk at 020 7665 2262.

Forthcoming Events:

• Monday 24 September 2007, 2pm, ICE,One Great George Street, London. `TBT´s Treatment and Disposal´. All welcome. Please RSVP to sophina.khan@ice.org.uk