Posted on January 19, 2016
By Theo Stocker, Yachting Monthly
Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners have announced a long term dredging and saltmarsh creation programme to improve channel depths and to restore vital intertidal marshes.
Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners (BHC) face the daunting task of maintaining required depths in the harbour’s navigation channels, whilst balancing the needs of the natural environment around them.
As with many harbours in Essex and on the East Coast, mud and siltation is a constant challenge, but removing too much mud can imbalance the local ecosystem and undermine the saltmarshes that are vital for the health of the sea, for wildlife, and as natural barriers to storms and floods.
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