Dredging projects to ensure safe navigation and support local and regional economies include $24.75 million to dredge the Baltimore Harbor and approach channels to a uniform 50-foot depth to support the Port of Baltimore $4.525 million to dredge the Wicomico River $3.22 million to dredge Honga River and Tar Bay $2.17 million to dredge Rock Hall Harbor $515,000 to dredge the Ocean City Inlet and Sinepuxent Harbor, which has a history of shoaling $205,000 for engineering and design for dredging the Chester River $105,000 for engineering and design towards dredging the Little Wicomico River in Virginia $5,000 for real estate inspections of Claiborne Harbor and $5,000 for operational support for Slaughter Creek.Poplar Island Ecosystem Restoration Project: $21.34 million to continue the beneficial placement of material dredged from the approach channels to the Port of Baltimore to restore Chesapeake Bay wetlands and remote island habitat to benefit a variety of Bay wildlife.Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery: $3.5 million to restore native oyster populations in tributaries in Virginia and Maryland.Funding highlights are included below.Īquatic Ecosystem Restoration Construction projects: Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, to construct aquatic ecosystem restoration projects that benefit the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed dredge the Baltimore Harbor and several channels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and operate and maintain flood risk management projects throughout the mid-Atlantic region.

The President’s proposed budget for fiscal 2023 released March 28, 2022, includes more than $100 million in Civil Works funding for the U.S.

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