The Associated British Ports (Grimsby Riverside Ro-Ro Terminal) Harbour Revision Order 2011

Power to dredge in Humber

8.—(1) For the purposes of affording uninterrupted means of access to the works and of enabling their use at all states of the tide, A.B. Ports may from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse, alter and improve the bed, shores and channels of the river Humber—

(a) within an area under and adjoining Works Numbers 1 and 2 equal in size to the area stippled blue on sheet 2 of the deposited plans, to a maximum depth of 7.5 metres below Chart Datum (dredged berth pocket);

(b) within the area stippled red on sheet 3 of the deposited plans, to a maximum depth of 2 metres below Chart Datum (dredged approach channel and turning area);

and may (subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)) as it thinks fit use, appropriate or dispose of the materials from time to time taken up or collected by it in the course of any such operations.

(2) No materials referred to in this article shall be deposited below the level of high water otherwise than in such places and in accordance with such restrictions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State pursuant to Part 2 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1).

(3) The power to use, appropriate or dispose of materials referred to in this article shall not extend to wreck (within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995)(2) found by A.B. Ports.

(1)

1985 c.48.

(2)

1995 c.21.