Madaveli-Hoadedhdhoo
Causeway
Madaveli-Hoadedhdhoo Causeway DISASTER
Total estimated cost of the project as at Sept 2022: MVR 112 million (USD 7.2 million)
INTRODUCTION
There have been no ecosystem loss & damage studies done to assess the consequential loss to the surrounding marine ecosystems, loss of land and agricultural damage to local economies, and impacts on the communities of Madaveli and Hoadedhdhoo as a result of the badly executed causeway project.
Basic Facts
- Government of Maldives decision to build a causeway to link the islands of Madaveli and Hoadedhdhoo in Gaaf Dhaal Atoll, Maldives
- Project proponent: Ministry of Housing & Infrastructure
- Project EIA consultants: SEAMARC in 2012 and La Mer in 2016
- Project cost estimate: MVR 28,777,458 (USD 1,866,242)
- Project contractor: Maldives Transport & Contracting Company (MTCC Plc)
- Project scope:
- to build a 441 x 15 metre causeway linking the islands of Madaveli and Hoadedhdhoo, reclaimed to a height of 1.4 metres above mean sea-level (MSL)
- reclamation of 3.5 hectares on the south-east of Madaveli island to a height of 1.3 metres above MSL
- the causeway will go through the uninhabited island Haadhoo located between Madaveli and Hoadedhdhoo
- total amount of sand use for the project is 73,500 cubic metres (cbm)
- total size of sand borrow area is 6,000 sq/m (300 x 200 metres)
(Data Sources : EIA – Coastal modification and Causeway between Hoan’dehdhoo and Madaveli, Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, 2016 )


