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Harbour Dredging – The Best Way to Restore the Harbour’s Magnificence

by SPIN PRO Business
Most of the time, harbours and ports are the leading water bodies that require dredging. There are different reasons why dredging is done on harbours. Keep reading to understand some of the reasons why it is such a fundamental activity. 

  • To ease navigation – There needs to be ease of navigation in yachting marinas, ports and harbours. As a matter of fact, sludge dredging for easy navigation is a legal requirement. It is mandatory regardless of the harbour authorities that are in charge of your area. 

  • To improve sea defence – This is a dredging strategy that helps protect the water bodies from flooding and erosion. Sludge dredging has been known to enhance flood control as well as shield the harbours and seas during times of storm surge and extreme cosmic tides. 

  • For aggregate extraction purposes – Did you know that you can win different minerals and other materials underwater? However, changes in the sediment composition can affect the transport flow in the water body, which in the long run will affect the levels of aggregate extraction. Through dredging though, removal of any materials that have been deposited in the water becomes easy.

  • To improve the harbour’s aesthetic appeal – The aesthetic appeal of the harbour improves after sludge dredging. Truth is, natural causes like wind and soil cultivation will contribute to the level of debris being deposited in the water body. And if that debris is not extracted after a specific period of time, the appealing look and feel of the harbour will be lost.

  • To help keep a clean environment – Since time immemorial, keeping the environment clean and conducive has been the norm. It is the best thing to do for the sake of both animal and plants living in the water as this is their habitat. Therefore, removal of debris and other contaminations that settle in the water body is part and parcel of cleaning up the environment.

  • For land reclamation purposes – If at all you have a piece of land that suffers redevelopment problems or needs a little restoration, then you can fill that up from the extracts you get from the harbour or sea dredging. 

Now, once the sludge has been extracted, it is important for the service providers to consider the recommended dredge sludge disposal methods. Check the rules and regulations in your area concerning disposing off sludge from water bodies and be sure to follow those rules to the letter. When you use the recommended steps for disposal, you protect the environment.  


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