If that happened, the ports would become fallow and would experience problems of siltation.
There is no way of determining the consequences of any intrusion into the river on siltation and the forming of banks.
The survey of the siltation factors, which are tremendously important, had not been made when this report was published.
One was a dam but this naturally raises great problems of siltation and pollution.
There are unforeseeable implications with pollution and siltation.
It appears to be the siltation group, but how will the group be expected to meet the cost of obtaining expert opinion?
It is true that we spend something over £250,000 annually, consequent on the siltation of the river, in keeping it dredged.
Pilots cannot predict the consequences of changes in a port, which alter the meandering of a river or its siltation, or create new banks.