Dredging - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
S.K. Jain, V.P. Singh, in Developments in Water Science, 2003 12.8.2 Dredging. Dredging is the process of removing the sediment from a water body (reservoir or channel), transporting, and depositing it at another location far away. Generally, dredging is an expensive means of recovering the storage capacity unless the deposits removed can be used for beneficial