Research Brief: Dredging Impacts on a Hypertrophic Lake Near the Mediterranean Sea
Samantha Baxter
Lakes around the world are subject to harmful anthropogenic pollution. A common pollutant is untreated wastewater, which can alter lake ecosystems by degrading water quality and shifting nutrient concentrations.
With growing knowledge on the benefits of healthy lakes, governments sometimes undertake projects to restore water bodies to a more natural state.1 A common restoration method is dredging, which directly removes pollutants from sediment in and around the lake.
However, the environmental.