Any sediment will be washed down the River along with pollutants and that’s everything from industrial contaminants to agricultural chemical disposal, not quite so easy to monitor.
The site of the Redcar steelworks was home formerly home to Warrenby Steelworks and I was sent there for three months as an apprentice in 1971, it was demolished to make way for Redcar Steelworks but the entire site was, like Seal Sands, built on slag from the steelworks, so we’re most of the embankments down the Tees…it’s as though some area of super contamination has been discovered, which I seriously doubt given the geography, more likely a discharge, there’s plenty of options there.

Programme about the dead crabs etc "We are England farming England trouble at sea" was shown tonight at 7.30 bbc1 but only in the Yorkshire region not tyne tees.
Deliberate suppression by Houchen & Co??

Whatever your thoughts are on the Teesworks development this dredging seems to be critical to the opening up of this site. If the dredging is stopped will the whole development stop and what are the consequences? Do we just plough on regardless and assume the damage is done now or what? Press interest seems to be increasing and the evidence clearly points to the dredging as the cause (or part of).
I just hope they blow up the blast furnace and 2 tanks asap as i would like to have uninterrupted views of the Cleveland Hills whilst sipping my coffee at Seaton.

I have just read that the Parliamentary select committee has recommenced the suspension of the dredging until more research is done.

Why are they dredging the Tees, super carriers were delivering iron ore and similar don’t tankers still load oil products from the refinery. The draft of these vessels will be bigger 5hen any vessels which are going to use the Freeport ?