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GPM Marine Constructions has completed stage two of the Swansea Dredging program.
According to GPM, dredging to maintain the channel is now complete, and the team continues demobilising from site at Swansea.
Over 13,000 cubic meters of sand has been removed from the Drop Over, Swan Bay entrance and Dog Leg and deposited on Elizabeth Island.
Background
Swansea Channel connects Lake Macquarie to the Pacific Ocean and Is the only entrance to the popular boating area in the Hunter region. Lake Macquarie is twice the size of Sydney Harbour and the largest saltwater lake in the Southern Hemisphere.
The history of Swansea Channel indicates that this is not a natural continually open navigational channel into Lake Macquarie. Since 1970 Swansea Channel has been dredged 20 times.