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On 28 April 2010 a Technical Advisory Service Agreement was signed by Kim, Kuen-Ho,
President of Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) and Harry Baayen, Managing Director of Deltares. K-water wants to commission Deltares for the technical advisory to the ‘Four Major Rivers Restoration Project (4MRRP). This project is supervised and managed by K-water under the framework of the overall 4MRRP.
The new OpenDA (Open Data-Assimilation) software brings data-assimilation into the reach of a far greater number of users by allowing it to be implemented for any computer model without the need for a large investment.
On April 1 Dick Vethaak employed by Deltares, held his inaugural speech. Dick Vethaak  has been appointed  in May 2009 as special professor Ecotoxicology of delta and coastal waters at VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), in cooperation with Deltares.
Deltares and other research institutes are working together, commissioned by the Dutch Government, to implement the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. An assessment and monitoring programme will be drawn up as well as a programme of measures.
Compensation grouting was developed to compensate for settlement during underground construction. Tubes with a diameter of 0.07 m and a length of up to 60 m are installed prior to the underground construction work together with a monitoring system.