Once again FACTS will show that the Abbot Point Dredging campaign can go ahead with minimal impact to the surrounding environment.
A recent study that was done on a dredging campaign in Western Australia at Barrow Island proves exactly what we have been saying all along.
The impacts from sediment plumes from dredging and when disposed at the disposal site have minimal impacts and will in fact hardly affect any areas beyond a 10 to 15 kilometre radius. There are no significant coral reefs within 40 kilometres of the actual dredging site at Abbot Point , this confirms that there will be minimal impacts around this area. We are currently waiting on a new disposal site to be chosen. When it is, you can be assured that there will be no coral reefs or seagrass beds within the disposal site, and , in fact within a radius of 10 to 15 kilometres and possibly more!
It was also found in this study that the disposal site has even less impacts then the dredging site.
The quotes below are from the Brisbane Senate enquiry on the Great Barrier Reef with reference to the Barrow Island Dredging.
STORY, Ms Bronwyn, Manager, Great Barrier Reef Strategy, Queensland Resources Council
KNUDSON, Mr Dean, First Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment
The image below shows the exposure days from the sediment plumes, also note the minimal impacts from both the Dredging site and the Disposal site.
Map showing study site and coral health survey
locations at Montebello and Barrow Islands, Western Australia.
locations at Montebello and Barrow Islands, Western Australia.
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