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Dredge Dumping
Marine Photobank, Image of dredged sediment being dumped on the beach
© Steve Spring, Palm Beach County Reef Rescue
Sediment dredge spoils are dumped on a beach in Florida’s Boynton Inlet. The sediment was dredged out of an intra-coastal waterway and piped south along the dunes for over a mile . Most of the sediment is going into the water resulting in a turbidity plume that may harm the reef there as well as sea turtles who will soon make their nests there. Two years ago officials did a similar dredging project and while no direct link was demonstrated, reefs were covered in a layer of sediment after.

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