Workpackage T1 : Secured social, economic and environmental global cost optimisation methods for new solution design & optimised business conditions
This workpackage aims to develop non-technical arguments in favour of sediment reuse strategy for flood and erosion issues by addressing social issues, employment, economic and environmental global impact optimisation at territorial scale and operational security in dredging campaigns.
This workpackage is focused on securing methods for implementing new solutions for sediment use through optimising social, economic and environmental issues to support industry stakeholders. A number of current models and technologies will be validated and tested using real field data from pilot sites (mainly Dunkerque and Cork/Waterford ports) with replication at a number of dissemination sites (mainly Rotterdam port & Bowling site). This will provide a cohesive and integrated approach for social, environmental and economic aspects of sediment management for stakeholders within their local territories in NWE.
The workpackage will provide significant added value for economic, environmental and social impacts and benefits of sediment reuse projects in four territories across NWE. Stakeholders, partners and their territories in four countries will be supported and facilitated to identify and develop sediment reuse projects including development of a business plan, and development of an on-site sediment measurement guide.
The workpackage will be led by MTU and will be undertaken in parallel with the other workpackages and will provide, facilitate and support them with results. It will also involve UL, ARMINES, UCC, BRGM, IX, UoS; all partners will be involved in engaging with stakeholders and facilitating greater sediment reuse applications and opportunities.
This WP will contribute to the first project sub-objective: “Find acceptable economic alternative solutions to dumping or no dredging strategies for large sediment volumes to improve economic development in ports and waterway territories and to improve environmental protection.
Activities
Methods developed in CEAMaS to identify areas with a maximum attractiveness for sediment reuse in the context of social criteria will be automated and implemented in this activity by UL&UCC. A Geographic Information System functionality will be developed, implemented and applied with real port site data to identify territories and locations attractive for sediment use. The system will be validated using port data from the 4 NWE regions and applied to identify 3 new sediment use opportunities.
Economic model developed at national scales in CEAMaS will be adapted to regional scales and linked with environmental indicators to provide global cost/benefit analyses (finance, employment, environment) by IX/UoS&MTU. With ARMINES, this model will be linked to PRISMA direct cost optimisation tool to provide operators with tools covering direct and global cost/benefit optimisation for new projects. We will use them to optimise cost/benefit for 3 new potential projets in the NWE region.
BRGM will apply real time monitoring technologies experimented in CEAMaS with port/waterways partners to upscale the use of such technologies from “experimental” use to a common use. BRGM will secure reuse options for operators and reduce cost for treatment/analyses. We will work on methods to identify how/in what conditions operators could be confident regarding their obligations and responsibilities when using such technolologies, and analyse the value for money in reuse strategies.
