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MLA/2025/00263 Updated 22nd July 2025
Initial Application - Submitted 27-May-2025
Project title
Tees and Hartlepool Maintenance Dredge Disposal
Project background
Renewal of the current maintenance dredge disposal licence L/2015/00427/7 which has been on-going over many years. This application is for a 10 year maintenance dredging disposal licence commencing 1st January 2026 and ending 31st December 2035.
The Tees Maintenance Dredging Protocol (MDP) Baseline Document has been updated for this application, it is attached below and referred to throughout the application.
Programme of works
Works are performed on a daily basis throughout the year and covered in the Tees MDP Baseline Document. The renewal applies to the next 10 years.
PD Teesport Limited employs two trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD) of 2,000m3 and 1,500m3 hopper volume to maintain depths within the navigable channel and berths within the Tees and Hartlepool. Both are traditional suction dredgers with active bottom door dumping systems, the only variation being the vessel hopper capacity. The suction dredgers operate on a nominal production time 12.5 hours per day for six days per week. This can, for a limited period, be increased to 24 hours and seven days per week where sudden increases in deposition rate occur, primarily following storm conditions.
Other information
Applicant details
Mr Andrew Ridley / 01642 877103 / andrew.ridley@pdports.co.uk
PD TEESPORT LIMITED / CRAFT DEPOT VULCAN STREET MIDDLESBROUGH / TS2 1LX
Date application submitted: 27-MAY-2025 Date application validated: 04-JUN-2025
Status: Submitted (Consultation open)
Application and Documents
Additional Documents
| File | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SAM202400054.pdf | 1 MB | 28-Apr-2025 |
| MMO_Results_Template - MAR02481 V2 with TOC.xlsm | 613 KB | 28-Apr-2025 |
| MMO Results Template MAR02499 V2.xlsm | 560 KB | 28-Apr-2025 |
| Post_Consent_Discharge MLA201500088 CP_.pdf | 360 KB | 28-Apr-2025 |
| MLA2015000886_R11.1 Decision Letter.pdf | 211 KB | 28-Apr-2025 |
| WER Compliance Assessment May 25.pdf | 3 MB | 21-May-2025 |
| Tees MDP Baseline Document May 25.pdf | 16 MB | 21-May-2025 |
Previous Licence Sampling
| Year of Samples | Reason | Sample collected | MMO references | Contaminants (PSA is required for all samples) | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mid licence sampling condition Year 9 | 31 samples | SAM/2024/00054 Data files MAR02481 MMO_Results_Template - MAR02481 V2.xlsm MAR02499 MMO Results Template MAR02499 V2.xlsm Display Data | Trace metals, organotins, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), Total Organic Carbon (TOC) | Condition 5.2.3 discharged |
| 2023 | Additional mid licence sampling | 10 samples | SAM/2023/000288 Data file MAR02085 MMO_Results_ - MAR02085 UPDATED.xlsm Display Data | Trace metals, organotins, PAHs, PCBs, OCPs, PBDEs | Condition 5.2.9 discharged |
| 2021 | Mid licence sampling condition Year 6 | 20 samples | SAM/2021/00027 Data file MAR01178 MMO_Results_Template - MAR01178.xlsm Display Data | Trace metals, organotins, PAHs, PCBs, OCPs, PBDEs | Condition 5.2.3 discharged |
| 2018/2019 | Mid licence sampling condition Year 3 | 37 samples collected as part of sediment sampling to inform the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) project and 10 additional surface samples to cover areas outside of the NGCT project. Additional samples (a further 10) were collected in Hartlepool as part of a capital dredge which were accepted as suitable for this area to meet the requirements of mid licence sampling. | SAM/2018/00069 Data file MAR00356 MMO Results_Template MAR00356_2.xlsm for the 37 NGCT samples Data file MAR00179 V3 MMO_Results_Template MAR00179 V3.xlsm for the 10 additional samples. SAM/2018/00050 For the 10 Hartlepool samples. Data file Carcinus 20126278 – MMO Results Carcinus - 20126278 - MMO Results.xlsm Display Data | Trace metals, organotins, PAHs, PCBs, OCPs, PBDEs | Condition 5.2.3 discharged |
| 2015 | Orignal licence application MLA/2015/00088 | 25 samples | MLP/2015/00094 20150603 MLP201500094 PD Teesport Results MMO Template.xlsx Display Data | Trace metals, organotins, PAHs | Licence granted |