OCEAN CITY – A bill introduced in the General Assembly which would have transferred ownership of the temporary islands created in the coastal bays behind Ocean City to the state for conservation purposes died this week when it failed to make it out of a House committee.
House Bill 54, introduced at the request of the chair of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, would have transferred authority of any lands formed in coastal bays in Worcester County by depositing material dredg-ed from the Ocean City Inlet or other navigational channels in and around the resort area from the state’s Department of the Environment (MDE) to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
When the federal Army Corps of Engineers dredged the navigation channels around the resort a few years back, roughly 400,000 cubic yards of sand and dredged material was dedicated to restoring some of the islands in the coastal bays that hadn’t been seen on charts since the 1930s, including a roughly four-acre spit now known as Tern Island.
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3 comments:
Don't you know by now environmentalists control Maryland and what they say goes.
Yeah more crap to run aground on. They don't keep up with the bouy system now. And every time you change something out there, you change the way the tide will run in and out.
Stay down by the inlet and I'll stay north of the 90 bridge. Year in and year out, there are PLENTY of islands to get to by boat without the crowd, thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!! You all just say down the inlet area and we all will have a good season!
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