WEDA
The Western Dredging Association

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• WEDA Gulf Chapter 2007 Fall Conference
The WEDA Gulf Chapter held its annual meeting in November 2007. To view presentations made at this year's conference, click on the folder below.

• WEDA Pacific Chapter 2007 Fall Conference
The WEDA Pacific Chapter held its annual meeting in Honolulu, HI on 24-26 October 2007.  The meeting began with an afternoon Corps/Industry Partnering Session led by James Bartha, SPD Regional Contracting Chief.  This session was followed by District dredging schedule discussions for SPD, NWD and POD.  The next two days included technical discussions and presentations about navigation planning studies. For conference presentations and more information, click on the folder below.

• WEDA Eastern Chapter 2007 Fall Conference
Held at Penn’s Landing along the Philadelphia waterfront from October 9-11, this year’s WEDA Eastern Chapter conference focused on dredge schedules, future port deepening dredging projects, bridge infrastructure, the East Coast Biological Assessment and other critical and timely issues. Present were representatives from the nation’s leading dredging companies, Corps of Engineers project managers and personnel, other Federal agency representatives, port representatives, and consultants. For all the conference presentations, agenda, and attendance list, click on the folder below.

•WEDA Eastern and Gulf Chapters 2006 Fall Conference
This year’s WEDA Fall Conference was a joint Annual Meeting of the Eastern and Gulf Chapters and held in conjunction with the North and South Atlantic Divisions and the Gulf Coast Districts of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Annual Corps/Industry Regional Dredging Meetings.  Extremely well attended, the conference unfolded at the Savannah Desoto Hilton in the heart of the historic district from October 24th through the 26th.  Present were representatives from eight of the nation’s leading dredging companies, Corps of Engineers project managers and personnel, other Federal agency representatives, port representatives, and consultants.

The program focus was “Dredging Today and in the Future”. On the agenda were a number of topics, such as dredge schedules from the various Corps divisions, future port development and deepening plans, restoration projects for coastal Louisiana, and turtle-taking.  Highlighting the conference on October 26th were a roundtable discussion on Multiple Award Task Order Contracts and a Contracting Officers Panel Discussion, which were especially well attended and created a healthy dialogue between the Corps and industry.  An Industry/Corps Hopper Dredge Management Group (ICHDMG) session followed immediately thereafter.

Lastly, the original Southern elegance of the Telfair Sculpture Gallery and Rotunda, with its period rooms and various decorative arts collections, served as a splendid setting for the WEDA Reception and Banquet on the night of Wednesday, Oct. 25th. Currently, there are tentative plans to schedule the 2007 Fall Conference at a location to be decided in the Gulf Region.

To access all of the documents related to the meetings that occurred during October 24-26, 2006, such as the WEDA Fall Conference, the MATOC Roundtable Discussion, the Contracting Officers Panel Discussion and the Industry/Corps Hopper Dredge Management Group session, click on the folder below.