Tweed River Dredging to Improve Navigation

The entrance of the Tweed River in New South Wales, Australia, will be dredged over coming weeks to improve boating navigation for commercial and recreational vessels.

“It is planned to remove about 21,000 cubic meters of sand. Thanks to the success of the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project, this is a relatively small amount compared with past dredging campaigns,” Tweed MP Geoff Provest said.

According to him, the floating dredge Port Frederick will carry out the sand removal – expected to begin in late March.

The Tweed Sand Bypassing is a joint initiative of the New South Wales and Queensland State Governments. The project’s objectives are to establish and maintain a safe, navigable entrance to the Tweed River and restore and maintain the coastal sand drift to the beaches on the southern Gold Coast of Queensland.

The project is a sand transport system that collects sand from the southern side of the Tweed River entrance at Letitia Spit, and pumps it under the river to outlets on the northern side.

From there the sand is transported by waves and currents to nourish the southern Gold Coast beaches.

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