Delaware turns dredged rock into reefs for mussels and fish

In short

• In 2018, Delaware used nearly 990,000 tons of rock excavated from a shipping channel.
• The rock was placed to form artificial reefs.
• The reefs give habitat to blue mussels and fish.

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Dredging keeps shipping channels deep enough for vessels, and the rock it removes usually has to go somewhere. In this case it was placed to build reef habitat for blue mussels and fish. The source reports the project as it happened in 2018 and gives no later results.

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Delaware had a lot of big rocks from digging out a shipping channel. In 2018, the rocks were moved into the sea to build reefs. Now blue mussels and fish have new places to live. Talk about it: what other things could be turned into homes for animals?