The Maryland DNR Natural Heritage Program has been coordinating closely with the Army Corps of Engineers, the Ocean City Fishing Center, and the Maryland Coastal Bays Program gradually build up the island in a "natural way" using clean sand dredged from the Fishing Center's approach channel. �You can�
�read more about it here:
http://dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/Publiclands/Natural_Areas/SkimmerIsland.asp
For more information, you can contact Dave Brinker at Maryland DNR.
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From: Russ Ruffing <ruff2...>
To: <mdbirding...>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Skimmer Island question
Sean,
there is a Project Planning study that was done by SHA on the US 50 bridge that crosses the bay there into Ocean City. I believe that study addresses the long-term viability of Skimmer Island. You can find some more information here:
http://apps.roads.maryland.gov/WebProjectLifeCycle/ProjectInformation.aspx?projectno=WO4191123
Russ Ruffing
On 01/31/13, Sean McCandless wrote:
Hi all. I apologize if this has been talked about before, but does anyone know if there any plans on rebuilding Skimmer Island again? It appears that Sandy has ripped it apart leaving only a small fraction of what was originally there. As most of you know, all of the efforts from last year�s restoration are completely gone. We have almost no colony nesting habitat left in this state. That really concerns me.
It seems to me that these types of efforts of rebuilding should be backed up with some type of permanent protection, like a shoreline revetment of rip rap. But I am not a hydrology engineer so I don�t know what the repercussions of that would be, but I hope that this problem gets resolved soon.
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