oldgit
Well-known member
Went to a meeting this week open to all river users regards new bill going before parliament.Several local marina owners were there including representatives from a well known international company as well as local boat clubs and nosy parkers like me.
This one way or another will affect just about anybody who has an interest in boating on UK rivers and estuaries.The matter off dredging or rather the disposal of spoil.
Down here on the Medway we have a problem with silting,the decline in commercial shipping has resulted in no dredging being carried out for many many years with the obvious result.
The problem is that it appears that under the new rules even a local club power washing off its slipway or making the gutway to its moorings at bit deeper will require permission to do so,involving a soil test to check for toxic chemicals and a plan to dispose of the spoil at an authorised site.This will mean serious amounts of money.
This may be fine for a commercial business such as the power company about to move a few thousand square yards of mud to deepen the berths at Sheerness power station,but to a local non profit making sailing club operating on what goes in the tea tin,it will be a problem.
Anybody heard anything eleswhere ?
This one way or another will affect just about anybody who has an interest in boating on UK rivers and estuaries.The matter off dredging or rather the disposal of spoil.
Down here on the Medway we have a problem with silting,the decline in commercial shipping has resulted in no dredging being carried out for many many years with the obvious result.
The problem is that it appears that under the new rules even a local club power washing off its slipway or making the gutway to its moorings at bit deeper will require permission to do so,involving a soil test to check for toxic chemicals and a plan to dispose of the spoil at an authorised site.This will mean serious amounts of money.
This may be fine for a commercial business such as the power company about to move a few thousand square yards of mud to deepen the berths at Sheerness power station,but to a local non profit making sailing club operating on what goes in the tea tin,it will be a problem.
Anybody heard anything eleswhere ?