Exploring the next generation dredging tool: Light of Taihu Lake
Source：CCCCTime：2025-08-22
This smarter, greener dredging powerhouse is set to remove over 10 million cubic meters of sediment from the West Taihu Lake.
Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Recently, CCCC launched the full-scale production of its next-generation green intelligent integrated aquatic platform for ecological dredging, Light of Taihu Lake, in the waters of Yixing, Taihu Lake.
The Light of Taihu Lake, an upgraded iteration of the Taihu Star developed in 2024, is hailed as an "ecological aircraft carrier." This advanced environmental dredging solution consists of several components, including a new intelligent eco-friendly dredger, a screening and regulation vessel, two dewatering and volume reduction module vessels, and an excess wastewater treatment vessel.
Light of Taihu Lake
This smarter, greener dredging powerhouse is set to remove over 10 million cubic meters of sediment from the West Taihu Lake. The entire process is closed-loop, with no land occupation by sediment and no discharge of waste water to the shore, pioneering a new model for river, lake, and reservoir management.
The excess wastewater treatment vessel functions like a "water purification station," processing the dredging wastewater to Class III water quality standards, which can then be directly discharged back into Taihu Lake. The dewatering and volume reduction module vessels are the platform's main workhorses, capable of processing 8,000 cubic meters of sediment per day.
The extracted sediment is transformed into valuable resources, used for ecological restoration efforts such as rebuilding Taihu's wetland ecosystems, filling abandoned mining pits to restore barren mountains, improving saline-alkali soils to create fertile farmland, and even turning it into organic compost for agriculture, continuously enriching the ecological landscape of Taihu.
Ecological wetland of Meiliang Lake created with sediment
Sediment used for backfilling the abandoned mining pits of Jiangshan, Yixing
Sediment used for saline-alkali soil remediation
Sediment transformed into organic fertilizer, significantly improving soil permeability and water retention.
Editor: CCCC
