Dredging Project in Flinders Ports has been Approved

It is reported that Planning Minister Stephan Knoll announced today that the South Australian Government is giving Flinders Ports the green light to widen the Outer Harbor shipping channel to increase the region’s export capacity and grow the economy.

The project involves dredging 1.55 million m³ of material along 7 km of channel and disposing dredge spoil over a 7 km by 5 km area into deep water (>30 m) in the middle of Gulf St Vincent, approximately 30 km from Outer Harbor.According to Flinders Ports, the volume is approximately half the amount of material that was removed from Outer Harbor in the 2005 Channel Deepening project, not double as suggested in recent media coverage.

This project is significant to local environment.Flinders Ports is planing to begin dredging works in Autumn 2018. This will avoid dredging in summer when seagrass is more susceptible to damage from turbidity impacts.

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