Dredging underway at Whanganui Port

Whanganui Port, New Zealand, continues to investigate long-term dredging options for the channel and port basin.

This long-term consent will eventually replace the priority dredging consent for the port basin, which has a term of two years and was approved early in 2023.

The priority dredging consent currently allows Whanganui Port operators to dredge immediately around the three main wharves and along the Wharf Street boat ramp.

As of today, dredging to clear the Wharf Street slipway and channel has commenced for the summer months.

“Due to limitations around our resource consent, we can only dredge during the outgoing tide, so please keep this in mind if you are intending to make the most of Whanganui’s great weather to go boating,” the port said in the release.

The current dredging operation is being done by an excavator and barge, with collected spoil released back into the channel downstream of the Whanganui Port.