0 present participle of dredge
1 to remove unwanted things from the bottom of a river, lake, etc. using a boat or special device:
Sitting in the hot summer sun, unprotected by shade for more than seven hours, the community demonstrated its aversion to the dredging.
Others may wish to dip similarly into a different pool of hypotheses, or even do some serious dredging.
The maintenance cost and foregone revenues are influenced by the frequency and length of dredging needed to avoid a prolonged period of idle production capacities.
The frequency of dredging throughout the year is multiplied by the cost of dredging to obtain the increase in annual maintenance cost of each pond.
An attempt at dredging was fruitless since they were unable to reach bottom with a line more than 1600 feet (500 m) long.
The frequency of dredging work is assessed by dividing the volume of sediment trapped at the intake ponds by the capacities of the intake ponds.
Preliminary results suggest that high dredging costs are caused by logging with conventional methods.
Reduced-impact logging may reduce dredging costs by about 30 per cent.
