Maintenance dredging definition

Maintenance dredging means excavation to restore the depth of underwater lands or restore channels, basins, canals, or similar waterway accesses to depths and dimensions that support and maintain prior or existing levels of use that previously have been dredged pursuant to a license issued by the department or an exemption as provided in Section 48-39-130(D)(10) as added by Act 41 of 2011.
Maintenance dredging means the periodic removal of shoals or sediments from existing navigational channels, berths, swinging moorings etc. in order to maintain an appropriate safe depth of water for navigation, construction or operational purposes;
Maintenance dredging means dredging an area previously dredged under a Board-issued or Department- issued license for the purpose of maintaining the area’s functional navigation channel, marina, or mooring basin.

Examples of Maintenance dredging in a sentence

  • Maintenance dredging of established navigation channels and basins provided dredging is restricted to maintaining previously dredged and/or existing authorized location, depth, and width.

  • Maintenance dredging is excluded from Contractor’s obligations under the Scoping Documents except for maintenance dredging on the operating marine basin of the facility west of the USACE channel to its design depth prior to handover of the marine facility.

  • Maintenance dredging" means dredging an area previously dredged to a specific depth, which is not necessary for a new service.

  • Maintenance dredging would be conducted on an as-needed basis and maintenance dredging volumes could vary considerably as a result of the ever-changing sediment dynamics in the Columbia and Cowlitz rivers and the frequency of maintenance dredging.

  • Maintenance dredging last occurred in the winter of 1993-1994, and would not normally be scheduled again until 1996.


More Definitions of Maintenance dredging

Maintenance dredging means dredging to ensure that channels, berths or other port areas are maintained at their designed dimensions.
Maintenance dredging means dredging in an area pre- viously dredged to the dimensions agreed upon in the grant agree- ment, but does not include dredging to greater dimensions than those to which the area has been previously dredged.
Maintenance dredging means dredging an area previously dredged to a specific depth, which is not necessary for a new service.
Maintenance dredging means dredging carried out by the licence holder after the final construction licensed activity;
Maintenance dredging means the removal of earth from the bottom of a stream, river, lake, bay or other water body for the purpose of maintaining a prescribed minimum depth of any specific waterway project.
Maintenance dredging means dredging routinely done in order to keep the access waterways or port area accessible;
Maintenance dredging means any dredging of materials from Sovereignty Lands which will restore a previously dredged area to original design specifications.