Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
How can worms and plants help dewatering soft sediment?
In Europe alone we produce 200 million cubic meters of dredged sediment per year. It takes a lot of time and resources to dewater and turn it into, for example, soil.
We are testing at Deltares how fast Oligochaete worms and plants turn almost 40 cubic meters of dredged sediment into soil. The same could be applied to other types of soft sediment as, for example, mine tailings or sludge from waste water treatment. This has been tested before on a small scale in the laboratory, and because of the positive results, the experiment is now scaled up. The testing will take a few months.
Meanwhile, Miguel Angel de Lucas, expert at Deltares, will tell you more about his experiment. Also, this item on previously executed related work at laboratory scale might interest you as well: lnkd.in/gAD8yGK8
PART 2 IS OUT NOW: youtu.be/MTsWfkF3IuI
How can worms and plants help dewatering soft sediment?
In Europe alone we produce 200 million cubic meters of dredged sediment per year. It takes a lot of time and resources to dewater and turn it into, for example, soil.
We are testing at Deltares how fast Oligochaete worms and plants turn almost 40 cubic meters of dredged sediment into soil. The same could be applied to other types of soft sediment as, for example, mine tailings or sludge from waste water treatment. This has been tested before on a small scale in the laboratory, and because of the positive results, the experiment is now scaled up. The testing will take a few months.
Meanwhile, Miguel Angel de Lucas, expert at Deltares, will tell you more about his experiment. Also, this item on previously executed related work at laboratory scale might interest you as well: lnkd.in/gAD8yGK8
PART 2 IS OUT NOW: youtu.be/MTsWfkF3IuI
