Sentence examples for extensive dredging from inspiring English sources

In any event, he said, the increasing volume of maritime trade may necessitate building container terminals in Brooklyn and Hoboken, neither of which requires extensive dredging.

If the government just allowed nature to take its course, it is highly likely that extensive dredging projects would not be necessary.

Fire Island and South Shore homeowners generally favor extensive dredging of offshore sand to rebuild the Fire Island dunes, while environmental groups generally prefer to let nature take its course.

The largest involve extensive dredging of both the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, a larger channel that ships must navigate to get to the port's container terminals in Staten Island and New Jersey.

The shallow lake, an important source of drinking water for the region, would require "extensive dredging" and "would probably suffer from salt infiltration in the lock zones," write Huete-Pérez and co-author Axel Meyer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

Palmyra Atoll was physically altered by extensive dredging during the 1940s and was historically fished, but currently is fully protected from fishing by the USFWS.

The rebuilding of the destroyed Path station in Lower Manhattan, the repainting of the George Washington Bridge and extensive harbor dredging are expected to be completed on schedule.

Madeira is an enormous project involving the construction of 4 hydroelectric dams, extensive river dredging and opening of channels, currently underway in Brazil's western Amazon.

Both phenomena require regular, and expensive, dredging.

In 1906, at the age of 39, he turned his attention to the resort community of Long Beach, employing dredging so extensive it was compared to the work on the Panama Canal.

About two years ago, Beek paid $800 to have a biologist survey the eelgrass under and around his dock, because he thought he might be able to dredge in some places and not others — if eelgrass is found within 15 feet of the dredging site then the extensive mitigation is triggered.