Outer Harbor Dredging Plan

South Australia’s largest port operator has applied to the State Planning Commission to widen the existing shipping channel at Outer Harbor by 40m for a distance of 7km.

Its proposal would require dredging of 1.55 million cubic metres of sea matter to be relocated at Gulf St Vincent which sparking “serious concerns” from local environmental groups.

According to Flinders Ports, the project is necessary because the number of ships calling into Outer Harbor has quadrupled this year and is expected to double again in 2018. Meanwhile the economic benefit of widening the channel did not outweigh the destruction of the environment.

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