Nature positive dredging

09/11/24 • 20 min

Dredging is changing its image. Giulia Sforzi, Jeremy Spearman and Mark Lee highlight how dredging can provide win-win biodiversity solutions, and why the future is bright for sustainable dredging. Jez also elucidates an innovative project for Harwich Haven Authority to create habitat.

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The Hydrofiles - Nature positive dredging

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Sally Jackson00:00:04.019

Welcome to the Hydrophiles, the HR Wallingford Podcast. I'm Sally Jackson, and today I'm joined by three of our dredging experts to talk about nature positive solutions for dredging. Dredging has traditionally been seen as a rather dirty industry, blamed for all kinds of things, but actually there are so many interesting things we can do with dredging to create biodiversity solutions and nature positive solutions. So we brought three of our e