The Dutch Department of Public Works and the province of Overijssel intend to award the contract for the IJsseldelta polder to the Isala Delta consortium consisting of Boskalis and Van Hattum and Blankevoort. The project is part of the national Room for the River programme.
The Room for the River programme consists of more than thirty measures aimed at providing better flood protection for areas close to the Netherlands’ rivers. The project will involve lowering the summer bed of the Lower IJssel river along a length of 7.5 kilometres near the town of Kampen and creating a bypass to the south of Kampen.
Boskalis and Van Hattum and Blankevoort will start initial preparations in the fall with the project scheduled for completion by the end of 2019. The contract represents a value of around € 127 million.
Room for the River
Boskalis is already involved in several other major hydraulic engineering projects in the context of the government's Room for the River programme. These include the Veessen-Wapenveld high-water channel, the Lower Rhine project, the Deventer project, where a total of six secondary channels of the IJssel river are being dug, and the Noordwaard project near the town of Gorinchem.
Picture: "Olst Wijhe Buitenwaarden" (by Onderwijsgek – Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5-nl through Wikimedia Commons).
