Posted on August 18, 2016
By Andrew Parent, ShoreNewsToday
City officials and representatives from the engineering firm hired to handle Ocean City’s bay and lagoon dredging program will hold two meetings Saturday, Aug. 20 for residents in neighborhoods set to be dredged later this year.
The city plans to finish the incomplete 2015 job in Snug Harbor between Eighth Street and Revere Place, and is set to dredge Glen Cove, between 10th Street and Walton Place, and the entrance area of South Harbor, between Spruce Road and Tennessee Avenue.
A meeting to discuss those project and answer questions from residents will be held 11:30 a.m. in the Howard S. Stainton Senior Center, inside the Ocean City Community Center at 1735 Simpson Ave.
Residents of the Nor’Easter Residential Marina community at Seventh Street and Pleasure Avenue are invited to a separate meeting 1 p.m. Saturday inside the Senior Center.
In a letter sent by the city to residents there, officials said property owners or condo associations were responsible for obtaining permits to dredge private boat slips. The Nor’Easter permit has expired, and no slip dredging can take place there until new permits are obtained.
“Moving forward, the city will include private slips in the city’s dredge permit applications through a city-wide permit application that includes the entire back bay from tip to tip,” the letter stated. Because of this, condo associations or property owners will not have to obtain their own dredge permits from state or federal agencies, according to the letter, available on the city’s website.
Officials expect to apply for the new permits in the fall.
“The new permits will allow the city and residents to move forward with the city’s long range dredging plan for the entire back bay,” the letter stated.
Letters about the meetings were mailed to all residents of neighborhoods set to be included in the upcoming dredging, according to a press release.
In a five-year capital outlook approved earlier this year, the city set aside $10 million for dredging in 2016 and $5 million each in 2017 and 2018.
Source: ShoreNewsToday
