Dredging Specialists References
Weeks Marine Inc.
Dredging – Marine Contractors – Stevedoring – Equipment Rentals
Below is an e-mail from Eric Dickerson, the project
manager for Weeks Marine, after the 2008 Baxter Dredging project for the
City of Philadelphia, PA. On this project Dredging Specialists dredged
430,000 cubic yards of mud and pumped it onto hopper barges at the rate
of 33% insitu solids.
Don,
Thank you
very much for making this project a success. You and your crew made the
project run smoother than we could have anticipated. We are very
Appreciative of your efforts. Thanks
Eric Dickerson
Weeks Marine Inc.
Dredging – Marine Contractors – Stevedoring – Equipment Rentals
Dredging Division Area Office
901 Beach Street
Camden, New Jersey 08102
It is my pleasure to recommend the services of Dredging
Specialists and Don Searles. Simply put, Don is a person of outstanding
character, capability, and work ethic.
Weeks first employed Dredging Specialists as a
subcontractor to dredge a lagoon at a water treatment plant in
Philadelphia. Don designed and built a dredge for that project, then
mobilized and performed the work. The job was extremely successful and
as a result we continued to seek out his services after that project.
For a period of time the dredging division had a special
projects division and Weeks often used his services to help assess
work. Among other things, Don created a rig in Puerto Rico to probe the
river for the Lake Carraizo dredging project. He also helped interpret
his findings and did a lot of early site assessment to help us prepare
our estimate.
I highly recommend Don and I’m sure you will be very
pleased with his services.
Sincerely,
Robert S. Malissa PE
Administrative Manager, Clamshell Group
Note: Weeks Marine is the second largest dredging contractor in the U.S.
and does about 200 million dollars of dredging work per year.
City of Decatur,
Illinois
It
is my pleasure to recommend to you the services of Mr. Don Searles of
Dredging Specialists for hydraulic dredging projects. Mr. Searles
greatly assisted in the design and engineering of our 10 year, 5.8
million cubic yard hydraulic dredging project. He wrote the vast
majority of the specifications for a 16 inch, 1250 HP dredge, two 16
inch, 850 HP booster pump stations, one booster pump barge, fuel barge,
and dredge tender. Don completely designed the pumping system,
including friction loss calculations, diesel power plants required,
placement of booster pumps, and selection of pipeline size and
material.
Mr. Searles also
provided valuable recommendations for the prequalification of equipment
bidders as well as the design of the dredge mobilization/operations yard
and dock.
We have been very
pleased with his work. Please feel free to contact me if you need
additional information.
Sincerely,
Keith Alexander
Water Management Director
City of Decatur, Illinois
1 Anderson Plaza
Decatur IL 62523
Phone - 217.424.2863 email - kdalexander@decaturnet.org |