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Sand mining in the Western Scheldt [Zandwinning in de Westerschelde]

Citation

Rijkswaterstaat; Zee en Delta; Rijkswaterstaat Centrale Informatievoorziening: The Netherlands; (2021): Sand mining in the Western Scheldt. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/7851

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Description

Ccommercial extractions of sand take place at various locations in the Western Scheldt. more

Sand extraction in the Western Scheldt has been capped at 2.6 million m3 since 1993 and has (apart from a pilot project) stopped from 2014 onwards.

Scope

Themes:

Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Sand mining, ANE, Western Scheldt

Geographical coverage

ANE, Western Scheldt [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1954 - 2014

Parameter

Amount of extracted sand

Contributor

Ministerie van Infrastructuur Waterstaat; Rijkswaterstaat; Centrale Informatievoorziening (CIV), more, data creator

URLs

Dataset information:

https://rshiny.scheldemonitor.org/datafiches/

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Monitoring: field survey

Metadatarecord created: 2021-08-17

Information last updated: 2022-08-04

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