EPA officers aboard the EPA boat Diomedea used a drone recently to get a bird’s eye view of the dredging operation to widen the Outer Harbor shipping channel.
Dredging of the Outer Harbor channel wrapped up on 18 September 2019, and Flinders Ports is now undertaking bed levelling works in the channel before completing a final survey.
The EPA is working with Flinders Ports to ensure the closure plan is implemented. The plan includes seagrass monitoring in April 2020 and again in April 2022, bathymetric surveys of the dredge area and disposal area, and removal of all plant and equipment from the premises.
Watch the footage here to see how backhoe dredge Magnor operates.
Read more about Flinders Ports’ environmental licence and the scientific monitoring of the dredging operation.