Batemans Bay Dredging

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What’s this about?

Transport for NSW is committed to improve and sustain accessibility to key coastal locations, river entrances and local waterways to improve navigation for commercial and recreational vessels. 

Transport for NSW has prepared a Review of Environmental Factors (REF) that will give us environmental approval to dredge when needed for the next 10 years in Batemans Bay, subject to available funding.  The Batemans Bay Dredging project proposes to:

• Improve safety and navigability of the bar.
• Remove about 30,000 cubic metres of sand each dredging campaign.
• Provide a minimum 40-metre-wide channel and -2.9 LAT at the entrance bar.
• Make beneficial use of dredge sand, by placing the sand in-water to use the natural power of waves and currents potentially nourishing nearby beaches.
• Monitor and deliver maintenance dredging when needed for the next 10 years, subject to available funding. 

A brief overview of the proposal is detailed in our latest Community Update.

For more information and to view the full Review of Environmental Factors (REF) document or go to our website.  

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