Dredging
Over the past decades, sediment has been filling up the lake, reducing the average lake depth. The lake is no longer suitable for competitive paddling sports, normal ecological balance has been disrupted, and parts of it are in danger of being reduced to mudflats and wetlands. The city is scheduled to begin removing 360,000 cubic metres of sediment, as part of the "Burnaby Lake Rejuvenation Project", in August 2006.
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