"Dredging is not required in most areas of the Lower Fraser. Where the river is self-scouring, because of its natural flow pattern and training walls that keep the water's velocity high enough to prevent deposits, there is little or no infill. The Port Authority only dredges discrete areas within deep-sea and secondary channels that are naturally infilled each year. These areas include Sandheads Reach and Steveston Cut. Some of the secondary channels only require dredging every four or five years..." (excerpt, page 2)
 

"An old homily says that one man's excess is another man's treasure. When it comes to river sand, Captain Dave Hart, Manager of Dredging for the Fraser River Port Authority would agree. "We've got too much of it..." However, from the viewpoint of builders located in rapidly developing communities such as Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and Langley, where sources of sand for use as preload and construction material are rapidly diminishing, this sand is desperately needed..." (excerpt, page 4)