| Comment | [https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12731441.dredging-the-clyde/](https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12731441.dredging-the-clyde/)
The perspicacity and industry of our forefathers enabled them to adapt
and use the insignificant river Clyde with its tidal ebb and flow, and
create a worthy city out of a minor market town. They were well aware,
as we should be now, that the Clyde has but one maker.
A recent news item informed us that the modest sized destroyer, HMS
Glasgow, was unable to berth because of silting up of the river bed as
far downstream as Yorkhill Quay, which is almost opposite the Govan Dry Docs
**Glasgow Green was regularly transformed into a saltwater lake by the**
**high spring tides.**
One might wonder whether the present apathetic attitude to dredging
and waterfront maintenance will result in an experience similar to that
which confronted Londoners a decade ago.
The enormously expensive Thames Tidal Barrier had to be constructed to
protect the city's infrastructure -- and the cost of operating a few
Clyde dredgers would pale into insignificance against the maintenance
alone of the barrier.
Unfortunately heritage conservation does not have the visually
artistic appeal of an immense aluminium TV pylon in St Enoch's Square
but, as the song says, we will only ever learn from the past. |
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