diff --git a/internal/engine/bake/bake.go b/internal/engine/bake/bake.go
index ef3de11..48bd341 100644
--- a/internal/engine/bake/bake.go
+++ b/internal/engine/bake/bake.go
@@ -688,6 +688,15 @@ func (b *Baker) AddCell(chart *s57.Chart) {
 						continue
 					}
 				}
+				// DRGARE dredged depth is emitted by the rule as a fixed-metres text
+				// label ("%gm", DredgedArea.lua). Drop it; the client labels the
+				// dredged area from the baked `drval1` (carried on the area below),
+				// converting to the chosen depth unit — same pattern as DEPCNT/valdco.
+				if class == "DRGARE" {
+					if _, ok := p.(portrayal.DrawText); ok {
+						continue
+					}
+				}
 				b.route(p, class, fb.DisplayPriority, fb.DisplayCategory, zr, zMin, dr.Max, bnd, pts, drval1, drval2, valdco)
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-canvas.mjs b/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-canvas.mjs
index 7b92ef0..64a5e84 100644
--- a/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-canvas.mjs
+++ b/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-canvas.mjs
@@ -498,6 +498,10 @@ export class ChartCanvas extends HTMLElement {
   // the mariner picks imperial units), shown only when "contour labels" is on.
   contourLabelField() { return S52.contourLabelField(this._mariner); }
 
+  // Dredged-area depth label (S-52 row 47): DRVAL1 at the DRGARE centroid in the
+  // chosen depth unit — see s52-style.drgareLabelField.
+  drgareLabelField() { return S52.drgareLabelField(this._mariner); }
+
   // SNDFRM04 (S-52 §13.2.16): a sounding ≤ the live safety depth uses the bold
   // SOUNDS glyphs, else the faint SOUNDG glyphs — picked client-side from the
   // baked depth + both name variants. Falls back to the baked names if a tile
@@ -612,6 +616,8 @@ export class ChartCanvas extends HTMLElement {
     setIf("danger-boundary", "line-color", this.token("CHBLK", "#000000"));
     setIf("contour-labels", "text-color", this.contourLabelColor());
     setIf("contour-labels", "text-halo-color", this.textHaloColor());
+    setIf("drgare-labels", "text-color", this.textColor());
+    setIf("drgare-labels", "text-halo-color", this.textHaloColor());
     setIf("complex-lines", "line-color", this.colorExpr("color_token"));
     for (const v of TEXT_VARIANTS) {
       setIf(v.id, "text-color", this.textColor());
@@ -877,6 +883,7 @@ export class ChartCanvas extends HTMLElement {
       if (keys.includes("depthUnit")) {
         this._eachLayer("soundings", (id) => map.setLayoutProperty(id, "icon-image", this.soundingsIconImage()));
         this._eachLayer("contour-labels", (id) => map.setLayoutProperty(id, "text-field", this.contourLabelField()));
+        this._eachLayer("drgare-labels", (id) => map.setLayoutProperty(id, "text-field", this.drgareLabelField()));
       }
       // Distance unit: the S-52 scalebar reads in NM / km / mi — redraw it.
       if (keys.includes("distanceUnit")) this._renderScalebar();
diff --git a/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-style.mjs b/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-style.mjs
index 12bcb4b..93d4ab4 100644
--- a/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-style.mjs
+++ b/web/src/chart-canvas/chart-style.mjs
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ function buildLayers(mariner, palette, atlasPpu, osm) {
       filter: ["all", ["==", ["get", "class"], "DEPCNT"], ["has", "valdco"]],
       layout: { "symbol-placement": "line", "text-field": S52.contourLabelField(mariner), "text-font": FONT, "text-size": 10, "text-max-angle": 30, "symbol-spacing": 300, "text-allow-overlap": false, "text-optional": true, visibility: mariner.showContourLabels ? "visible" : "none" },
       paint: { "text-color": S52.contourLabelColor(active, palette), "text-halo-color": S52.textHaloColor(active), "text-halo-width": 1.2 } },
+    // Dredged-area depth label (S-52 row 47, client-side): DRVAL1 placed at the
+    // DRGARE centroid, in the chosen depth unit. The baker drops the rule's
+    // fixed-metres "%gm" text so this tracks depthUnit (same pattern as
+    // contour-labels). Reads the `areas` source-layer → SCAMIN-cloned below.
+    { id: "drgare-labels", type: "symbol", source: "chart", "source-layer": "areas",
+      filter: ["all", ["==", ["get", "class"], "DRGARE"], ["has", "drval1"]],
+      layout: { "text-field": S52.drgareLabelField(mariner), "text-font": FONT, "text-size": 10, "text-allow-overlap": false, "text-optional": true },
+      paint: { "text-color": S52.textColor(active, palette), "text-halo-color": S52.textHaloColor(active), "text-halo-width": 1.2 } },
     // Light characteristics (LIGHTS06 TX, e.g. "Fl(1)R 3s 4.2m") — their own
     // layer. It precedes the feature-name layers in the style order, so MapLibre
     // places light text FIRST: it wins collisions against plain name labels (a name
diff --git a/web/src/chart-canvas/s52-style.mjs b/web/src/chart-canvas/s52-style.mjs
index cf9a96f..d5f02db 100644
--- a/web/src/chart-canvas/s52-style.mjs
+++ b/web/src/chart-canvas/s52-style.mjs
@@ -131,6 +131,18 @@ export function contourLabelField(mariner) {
   return ["case", ["has", "valdco"], ["to-string", v], ""];
 }
 
+// DredgedArea depth label (S-52 row 47 / S-101 DredgedArea.lua): the dredged
+// depth (DRVAL1) with a unit suffix, e.g. "1.8m" / "6ft". Drawn client-side from
+// the baked `drval1` so it tracks the mariner's depth unit — the baker no longer
+// bakes the rule's fixed-metres "%gm" text. Feet round to whole (chart
+// convention); metres keep one decimal (DRVAL1 is often fractional, e.g. 1.8).
+export function drgareLabelField(mariner) {
+  const ft = mariner.depthUnit === "ft";
+  const val = ft ? ["*", ["get", "drval1"], M_TO_FT] : ["get", "drval1"];
+  const num = ["number-format", val, { "max-fraction-digits": ft ? 0 : 1 }];
+  return ["case", ["has", "drval1"], ["concat", num, ft ? "ft" : "m"], ""];
+}
+
 // SNDFRM04 (S-52 §13.2.16): a sounding ≤ the live safety depth uses the bold
 // SOUNDS glyphs, else the faint SOUNDG glyphs — picked client-side from the
 // baked depth + both name variants. Falls back to the baked names if a tile