FENWICK ISLAND – State and local officials are encouraging Fenwick Island residents to write letters that express the need for dredging the Little Assawoman Bay after hearing the community’s concerns at a public meeting in Fenwick Island last week.
Last Friday, officials with the Town of Fenwick Island invited members of the community to attend a dredging workshop with Senator Gerald Hocker and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Administrator Tony Pratt in an effort to garner support for dredging the neighboring Little Assawoman Bay and to voice concerns about current safety conditions along its waterways.
Pratt told attendees the state is expected to generate an additional $1.3 million in anticipated revenue from increased boat registration fees to fund dredging projects, but shared the exponential costs and time associated with dredging.
“As you can see, we have a tremendous need and a very small revenue stream to treat it,” he said.
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3 comments:
DE is turning into MD - increased fees = increased TAX.
I did not know there was a constitutional right to drive your boat through water that's too shallow.
The shallow waters you speak of were part of the home package (the right to tie your boat to your dock). The land you speak of was water that was filled in with dredge. Mother nature is just trying to right the situation. Just let Mother Nature have her property. All the properties that are one level are just sitting on wasted time...the people that jacked their property up saw the writing on the wall. I would want one of those musty smelling damp homes sitting on man made property with or without a dock. Make them pay for the work...they knew going in that it was reclaimed property.
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