Lagos–Calabar Coastal Road: Borrow Pit to Road Fill

One year after we started, the team is rounding off its allocated section of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Road, with over 350,000 cubics produced. The contract demanded deployment and 100,000 cubics within two weeks, so start-up meant mobilising the dredge to site, assembling it there, and building the borrow pit it would launch into. That was a project in itself, and the team delivered it.

The plant is an 18 inch 1270 Ellicott Dredges, pumping sand across about 3.5 km of road chainage at around 1680 RPM. The discharge line has been stepped down as the distance grew, from 18 inch to 16 inch after 1.3 km because 18 inch HDPE was not available, with a further step to 14 inch planned at 1.65 km. Pumping distance is now past 1.5 km, working toward a 1.9 km target. A drone survey captures the scale of the works from above. Martins Otuya led the works.

“Some day when the Coastal Road has been completed, we will look back at these videos and be proud to have been part of this historical project. We are grateful to our team: together we have produced over 350,000 cubics.”