The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads will be granted £800,000 to come up with new methods for removing the waterways sediment.
The EU will invest in examining new possibilities for sediment dredging and reusing it therewith surpassing the necessity for determining disposal sites.
The Broads Authority is also planning to use the funding for expanding the sediment island at Duck Broad.
The project will be underway until 2014.
John Packman, the Broads Authority’s chief executive, stressed the intention to test the equipment for removing water from the dredged material.
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Dredging Today Staff, December 12, 2011;