There are many hydraulic fill projects onthe overbank flood plain nearriver and sea. These projects not onlyutilize shallows-tidal-flat areabut alsobenefit to dredgethewaterways.
Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flatfloodplain.
Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green floodplain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.