On Wednesday, the three-member Board of Public Works (BPW), which includes Governor Larry Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp, unanimously approved the $4.6 million for the beach replenishment project in Ocean City scheduled to begin sometime after Labor Day this fall. The latest installment of the beach replenishment project was expedited after the resort’s beaches took a significant hit during Winter Storm Jonas in January 2016.
The Ocean City beaches are routinely replenished every four years with periodic emergency projects as needed following storms and other natural events. Beach replenishment began in Ocean City in 1994 through a 50-year agreement with the town, Worcester County and the state of Maryland partnering with the federal Army Corps of Engineers, which provides over 50 percent of the funding for the massive undertaking.
The last beach replenishment project in Ocean City occurred in 2014 following Hurricane Sandy, making the next phase in the typical four-year cycle set for 2018.
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5 comments:
Send some of that beach replenishment south to Assateague!
Complete waste of money.
2:27. Why is it a waste of money? Ocean City would be a mess if it wasn't for beach replenishment. Take a look at some of the beaches in North Carolina that didn't do it....houses are sitting in the ocean. Our beaches are an asset to the state of Maryland.
You can buy the barge and all the equipment for less than that....then just a few hundred thou each year to run a crew and fuel. Next year they'll want 10 mill..... our government wasting OUR money again.
Stop building on vonabale beach areas and we will not have to pump cash on the beach, barrier islands are fluid and move , until man tries to change that . And as far as the beach it will still exist , it may be a mile from where it is but it will still exist! Fact! Take your money and donate to the calse, don't piss my money away!
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