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March/April 2011
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The Port of Baltimore
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For the next 20 years,
MASONVILLE
COVE
will receive 15 million cubic
yards of sediment and eventually
become home to a marine terminal.
start using it next year.
The Corps is also exploring
reopening the Pearce Creek
site in Cecil County. Built in
the 1930s, the site received
dredged materials from the
approach channel to the
Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal until the mid-1990s.
In recent years, the material
had been deposited at Poole’s
Island, but that site closed in
December.
“We’re supporting
their efforts to see what is
necessary to reactivate the
site,” Hamons said, noting
that there are concerns about
groundwater quality.
The MPA and the Corps of
Engineers have developed a
hugely successful project in
Poplar Island, which not only
provided a place to put the
dredged materials necessary
to keep the lower Bay ship
channels open but re-created a
historic island lost to erosion. It
has become a critical habitat for
wildlife as it was in the 1800s.
The MPA and the Corps
hope to duplicate that success
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