0 to remove unwanted things from the bottom of a river, lake, etc. using a boat or special device: --
2 to pull up a lot of sand or other things from the bottom of an area of water: --
The harbor is being dredged.
This provision is required so that the dredged approach channel may be extended, lighted, buoyed and subject to the harbour master's jurisdiction.
All that they said was that it was an awfully long time ago and it was a great shame to dredge it all up again.
There are two types of dredging — dredging for navigational purposes and commercial dredging, in which aggregates are dredged by private companies.
An average of 38 million tonnes of controlled wastes, excluding sewage sludge and dredged spoils, are estimated to be recycled annually.
The permitted materials include dredged material, sewage sludge, industrial fishprocessing waste, offshore man-made structures at sea, organic material of natural origin, and bulky items made of iron, steel, or concrete.
Outside, the mill pond had filled with sediment, and material from dredging and abandoned enterprises had covered the lowest windows and obscured the hydraulic interventions of dam and leat.
The first question is also of great practical relevance (navigation, off-shore industry, dredging activities).
Reduced-impact logging may reduce dredging costs by about 30 per cent.
