CBF, SRA fight dredge decision
The South River Federation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation are standing together to challenge a Board of Public Works decision that allowed a channel to be dredged off the South River.
The channel would give the property owners deep-water access. It would be 470 feet long, 15 foot wide, and three feet deep.
“No channel has ever existed here,” said South Riverkeeper Drew Koslow. “The applicants should not receive a permit to damage a natural site that has not been dredged before just because they desire deep water access that has not existed previously.”
The area is in Cedar Point Cove.
According to their press release, the applicants are concerned about sensitive bay grasses in the area. And the
National Marine Fisheries Service recommended against dredging, saying a better option might be to get a boat with a smaller draft.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.