Hello all,
The June Anne Arundel County Water Access Meeting is on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 6 pm at the DPW building at 445 Maxwell Frye Road, Severna Park MD 21108. Please come.
Jonathan Doherty from the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay will tell us about NPS progress towards new public water access points. Please bring your wish lists for Anne Arundel County and the whole Bay. We are on the water and actually know what's happening at the waterline.
We will also review local water access projects. Tell us your experience using the water access points.
See you there,
Lisa
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Anne Arundel Public Water Access Committee Meeting
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
6pm at the DPW facility, 445 Maxwell Frye Road, Millersville MD 21108.
Jonathan Doherty, Assistant Superintendent, National Park Service Chesapeake Region, will report on progress toward the creation of 300 new public access sites to the Chesapeake by 2025.
http://www.nps.gov/chba/parknews/che...ccess-plan.htm
Review of local access projects
The Chesapeake has horrible public access. Bay-wide the NPS estimates 98% of the Chesapeake’s shoreline is off limits to citizens that don’t own waterfront homes or live in water-privileged communities. Those excluded number in the hundreds of thousands in AA County alone. In a county of more that ½ a million residents, there are no public boat ramps or public beaches offered by our county government.
Change is coming. AA County has recognized the problem and cited it as the #1 recreation deficiency. An aggressive improvement plan has been adopted thru the joint efforts of the AAPWAC & AA R&P. An inventory has identified dozens of publicly-owned waterfront locations that can be made available with minimal time & expense.
Please share this notice with friends and ask relevant organizations to include it on their calendars.
Mike Lofton, Chair
Anne Arundel Public Water Access Committee
The June Anne Arundel County Water Access Meeting is on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 6 pm at the DPW building at 445 Maxwell Frye Road, Severna Park MD 21108. Please come.
Jonathan Doherty from the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay will tell us about NPS progress towards new public water access points. Please bring your wish lists for Anne Arundel County and the whole Bay. We are on the water and actually know what's happening at the waterline.
We will also review local water access projects. Tell us your experience using the water access points.
See you there,
Lisa
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Anne Arundel Public Water Access Committee Meeting
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
6pm at the DPW facility, 445 Maxwell Frye Road, Millersville MD 21108.
Jonathan Doherty, Assistant Superintendent, National Park Service Chesapeake Region, will report on progress toward the creation of 300 new public access sites to the Chesapeake by 2025.
http://www.nps.gov/chba/parknews/che...ccess-plan.htm
Review of local access projects
The Chesapeake has horrible public access. Bay-wide the NPS estimates 98% of the Chesapeake’s shoreline is off limits to citizens that don’t own waterfront homes or live in water-privileged communities. Those excluded number in the hundreds of thousands in AA County alone. In a county of more that ½ a million residents, there are no public boat ramps or public beaches offered by our county government.
Change is coming. AA County has recognized the problem and cited it as the #1 recreation deficiency. An aggressive improvement plan has been adopted thru the joint efforts of the AAPWAC & AA R&P. An inventory has identified dozens of publicly-owned waterfront locations that can be made available with minimal time & expense.
Please share this notice with friends and ask relevant organizations to include it on their calendars.
Mike Lofton, Chair
Anne Arundel Public Water Access Committee
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