Context and Project objective:
Flood and erosion risk management actions requires large amount of raw material while sediment manager have to deal with large excess of sediment.
SURICATES project aims to make ambitious sediment reuse projects possible in Europe for flood and erosion protection.
To do this, new solutions to increase fine sediment reuse in coastal & erosion protection markets will be implemented and experimented for roll-out:
- Sediment reallocation within the system
- Bio-engineering with sediment
- Sediment as a pozzolanic material to strength sediment
- Sediment reuse in concrete
- Dike or Bund with made with sediment
Territorial global cost and benefits optimisation focused tested in South or Ireland and Britany (France).
Ixsane contributions
- Setting up a pilot equipment to speed up sediment dehydration to easy operational sediment reuse
- Evaluation of economic/environmental direct and indirect local costs and benefits of sediment reuse projects
- Sediment reuse demonstration & Environmental monitoring
- WP leader
Partnership:
- Irland: MTU (ex CIT), UCC
- United Kingdom: UoS, Scottish Canals,
- France: ULille, BRGM, IMT Lille Douai, Armines, ixsane, TEAM2, EPTB Rance Frémur
- Netherlands: Port of Rotterdam, Deltares
Project Budget
SURICATES Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
- Project Total Budget: 8,01M€
- EU Funding: 4,8M€
Start of the project: 2017
End of the project: 2023
For more informations :
https://vb.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/suricates-sediment-uses-as-resources-in-circular-and-territorial-economies/#tab-1
