Exmouth dredging campaign complete

A larger than expected amount of material has been dredged from Exmouth Boat Harbor to provide a safer, deeper channel at the entrance.

The Department of Transport recently spent $1.6 million completing three months of maintenance dredging at the facility after surveying confirmed the channel was nearing the safe minimum width for some vessels.

Just under 29,000 cubic meters of material was removed and, in another win for the community, placed on Town Beach to widen it and feed eroding beaches to the north.

Overall, the project involved using 18m cutter suction dredge “Ironheart” for dredging the entrance channel and pumping the material to the Town Beach.