Large scale use of muddy dredged materials for sustainable flood defences and habitat management

Dredged material may be used directly in the creation and remediation of muddy habitats such as salt marshes and mud flats. The main emphasis of this study was to undertake physical and biological monitoring of a large beneficial use scheme constructed with the timescale of the project funding and then go on and use this data to investigate the recovery of this site. The scheme monitored as part of this study was in the Orwell Estuary and part of the amelioration measures for the development of the Trinity III (2) Container Terminal at Felixstowe.