DCET
Goals, Projects and Benefits
Communities
include:
- Fishing Creek Farms
- Hillsmere Shores
- Kitty Creek
- Northeast Shore
- Quay Harbour
DCET
Goals
- Creek-wide organization
to coordinate projects
- Website presenting
project progress and environmental history
- Tax-free trust
fund to disseminate seed money for environmental projects
- Portal to draw attention to environmental efforts
Projects
-
Informative Website
-
Shoreline Erosion Abatement
-
Oyster Bed Rejuvenation
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Wildlife Enhancement
-
Shoreline Beautification
-
Watershed Stabilization
-
Siltation Dredging
-
Water Clarification
Benefits
- Enjoyment of enhanced
wildlife habitat
- A restored natural
Creek environment and beaches improves property values
- Improve environment
for wildlife, crabbing, fishing, and swimming
- Restored tidal
flow to former depths in the Creek and channels
- Improved access
for resident commercial watermen
- Restore tidal flushing
to former depths in the Creek and channels
- Neighboring communities and Chesapeake Bay organizations will benefit
- through our efforts
to have a model Creek environment
- Waterfront homes
with slips have the most to benefit from this project
- Also public areas
shared by all homeowners such as the beach and the marina
- Some homeowners have to wait until high tide to get their boats off their lift. Do they want to wait until 2006 or 2008 to remedy this problem or is it worth a contribution to the fund to speed up the process
Issues for Waterfront Homes
- Will dredging include
individual slips or will this be an added cost?
- If individual slips
are not included in the dredging process explore including this as an
added benefit for contributors
- Define costs involved
- Funds raised for
dredging will be divided by number of homeowners to determine amount
per homeowner
- An amount will
be determined that is required for each additional slip to be dredged
- Make arrangement
with local bank to arrange for quick, easy, low interest equity loans
for any homeowner needing to borrow the money
- Get a home appraiser in our group that could submit an article to the website on the potential increase of value of a home if there were 6' to 8' of water in their slip as oppose to mud or 1 to 2' of water