Members of the Blueprint for Water Coalition, including the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, have commissioned a report from The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) into dredging rivers to manage flooding.
The report concludes that widespread dredging could make flooding in some communities worse in future – not better.
Far from advocating dredging as a panacea, the report suggests solely relying on dredging can even make some communities more vulnerable to the risk of flooding. Instead, the report’s authors call for leadership promoting sustainable measures to control flooding crises, rather than politically-motivated, knee-jerk reactions.
For a full full press release click here – http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/362697-dredging-isnt-a-silver-bullet