Spreading dredged spoil!

[Punch]

Currently dredging the river. What’s best way of spreading?
Keeping it in same field but plenty of area to spread outside the flood plain.
There was something on a thread recently but I can’t find it now!

 

[Lincs Lass]

EA will probably want to look at it .

 

[Punch]

EA gave permission to local fishing association for the work.
It’s taken them 2 years to fulfil requirements. Only requirement left is to spread it outside flood plain.
They did asked why and reply from EA was it could increase flooding. They seem to think that underwater in the river it wasn’t in the flood plain!
If we can spread it evenly it should be a benefit.

 

[tomlad]

Should be fertile eh ?

 

[Lincs Lass]

Every detectorist dream to walk over it once its dried out ,,you might find alot of either interesting or suspect items that have been in the mud for many years .

 

[tomlad]

keep getting detector lads bothering me, sent em.on a field .... hours later there whinging there getting false signals, bits of lead .
Then remembered last pond i desilted got spread there, will b full of lead fishing weights, not bin back to bother me again.

 

[8100]

We used a excavator for canal dredgings on some low spots on pasture. You can work it when its still sloppy and brick pick as you go if needed chucking bricks in the bucket .I found a few lapwing nests while brick picking so worked around them instead of burying them .(Wrong time of year i know but its all good)

 

[Kevtherev]

Spread it out with Dozer

 

[Punch]

Every detectorist dream to walk over it once its dried out ,,you might find alot of either interesting or suspect items that have been in the mud for many years .

Yes got our friendly chap going over the heaps. Not much yet except road cones & tin cans!

 

[Suffolksucklers]

When we clear out our dykes and main water ways we normally spread it out level with the digger, either round the edge or in a low spot depending on the field. Once dry we go through with a rotovator to chop everything up, let it haze over then go through with the power Harrow to level. Then run the flat roll over it a couple of times.