The word 'dredge' is correct and usable in written English and is used as a verb meaning to remove something from the bottom of a body of water by scooping or digging.
For example, "The team dredged the riverbed for valuable artifacts."
The plan to dump dredge spoil at a vacant industrial site next to Abbot Point represents the third attempt to find a place for the potentially toxic seabed.
Waters said while Unesco's world heritage committee would welcome the end to offshore dredge dumping, it would "not be impressed" with the fact Abbot Point itself would proceed.
GBRMPA has imposed very strict conditions on the dumping of dredge material".
The environment department's decision brief said the environment minister supported the proposal without extending trestles, disposing of dredge spoil on-shore and dumping 3m cubic metres of spoil in the waters.
The dredge spoil will be dumped into the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
"The community will be shocked to hear that our government is blindly relying on port developers' claims and letting them dump dredge spoil offshore in the reef's waters".
"The proponents could well be overstating the cost of disposing of dredge spoil on land but the government doesn't know because it's simply relying on the proponent's word, even though the proponent obviously has a direct conflict of interest," Waters said.
All of which makes it that much more remarkable that he was able to dredge up his sexual and moral failings for public delectation.
The Labor government in Queensland will allow mining companies Adani and GVK to dredge in Great Barrier Reef waters to expand a coal port but will make them pay for it themselves.
Greenpeace campaigner Shani Tager said the new plan to dredge 1m tonnes of seabed, for a port that risked becoming redundant if countries retreated from the coal sector, remained unacceptable.
"I am determined to deliver on my election commitments, and that includes no dumping of capital dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area, no dumping of dredge material in the nationally significant Caley Valley wetlands, and no taxpayer funding for capital dredging and the disposal of dredge spoil".
