![]() Somerset County Roads Director Woody Barnes said straw bales to serve as a barrier to contain the spoil were being delivered to the impoundment area with placement to start mid-February. This wetland restoration will benefit the migratory bird nesting habitat as Deal Island supports one of the largest concentrations in the state of herons, egrets and ibis, and also hosts one of Maryland’s only breeding population of black-necked stilts. It will then be allowed to settle over time. The pipes 16- and 24-inches in diameter will run approximately 0.2 miles along Messick Road and cross under Deal Island Road and continue 6 miles to the placement site off Riley Roberts Road.Īt the impoundment area a diffuser will be placed at the end of the pipe to spray the dredged material of mostly silt and sand onto two areas totaling 72.5 acres for a depth of no more than 3.5 feet. ![]() The non-federal sponsor for this project is Wicomico County and it will benefit the Port of Salisbury, however, all dredged material removed via hydraulic cutterhead dredge will be transported by pipes up to 6.7 miles to Dames Quarter in Somerset County. ![]() Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District awarded a $13.5 million contract to Cottrell Contracting Corp., a small business out of Chesapeake, Va., to dredge approximately 120,000 cubic yards of material from the federal navigation channel, to its authorized depth of 14 feet. Dredging of the Lower Wicomico River isn’t expected to start until October but mobilization at the dredge spoil site in the Deal Island Wildlife Management Area is underway. ![]()
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