![]() Sadly the whole dredging thing is very tightly controlled now by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) -ex DEFRA etc (who interestingly, have apparently taken 4 years + to invoice various companies for dredging licences - no wonder the countries going down the pan). Good Luck, but the beaureaucrats (sic) will be even harder to shift than the mud.Īll you can really get away with is running your engine in gear. I think that you would need a very powerful pump to clear a significant quantity of silt but the sand dredgers in Lough Neagh and elsewhere can fill the barge in no time but their equipment is very specialised (and expensive). It is illegal to just use it to fill a hole but if you can find someone who wants it then you can sell it as 'fill' from where they stand, but then you need both SEPA permission to take it out and again to dump it including paying land fill charges and tax. The most effective method for small scale dredging where access is available is to pull it out with a long jib tracked digger, they operate effectively out to about 10m. In Scotland you need SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) to do anything like this even to move stones on the foreshore, you are very unlikely to be given permission for anything, it is much easier to say 'no'. ![]() ![]() ![]() The hope is that the disturbed silt will settle elswhere, it usually comes back again with the next southerly gale. The approach to the canal here is dredged every few years, the method is crude and involves a poweful boat pulling a trawler type dredge along the bottom on a falling tide. ![]()
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