New lagoon in the Orwell

[sailorman]

And why not?
Why is filling the river shallows such a bad thing?
Whether these bits are just shallow or after the dredging a bit more shallow - I am unlikely to sail there.

I do sail there

 

[toyboy]

I just don't get the constant maoning about the dredging on the Orwell.
I, for one am delighted that at least one East Coast river is being dredged.
It may be that I am by character not suited to enjoy the delights of East Coast sailing (and with a 7' deep keeler I certainly don't have the boat for it) but I find having to constantly navigate shallow puddles a pain. At least, when I stay between the cans on the Orwell I know I will always have enough water under the keel.

What's the alternative? Not dredge the Orwell? An then, in a decade or so, you will only be able to get to Ipswich two hours either side of HW in nothing larger than a bath tub.

Dredging is good but dumping the spoil back into the river is not. That is why the Orwell is now so much shallower outside the commercial channel.

 

[toyboy]

A bit of thread drift, sorry to interrupt a squabble.
If you look at this area on Google Earth, between Levington and Pin Mill the satellite images change and shows the difference between high and low water.About 500m on Levington side.
I rowed ashore near there once, no wonder it took so long!

Go to the historical view and look at SYH in 1945. It is part of the river then but since then many parts of the river have been filled in.

 

[toyboy]

I do sail there

So do I and many others do too.

 

[Koeketiene]

Dredging is good but dumping the spoil back into the river is not. That is why the Orwell is now so much shallower outside the commercial channel.

It's got to go somewhere. Where else?

 

[toyboy]

It's got to go somewhere. Where else?

When Terry Tuck was skipper of the Samuel Armstrong he always dumped out at sea.

 

[sailorman]

When Terry Tuck was skipper of the Samuel Armstrong he always dumped out at sea.

But ,we now have worm huggers who like it kept in the river, why not take some back up the Gipping where some of it came from

 

[Colvic Watson]

When Terry Tuck was skipper of the Samuel Armstrong he always dumped out at sea.

That must have meant a long wait after a big curry.

 

[toyboy]

But ,we now have worm huggers who like it kept in the river, why not take some back up the Gipping where some of it came from

It would be ideal to take it back to the land it was washed off but I suppose it is impractible due to costs. I would like to see the whole system restored and maintained right back past Stowemarket but that just isn't going to happen. Besides it is not the plan which is to narrow the river and build on the recovered land as has happened at Fox's Fox's was once a mud bank as was SYH.