Cecil County Exec Pushes Face-Saving Plan to Justify Boat Ramp Closing; US Corps Denies Support; Public Hearing in Cecilton

[With CECIL TIMES Video] The Cecil County Executive is trying to come up with a face-saving plan to justify her proposal to abandon a free state/federal lease of an Earleville boat ramp and waterfront park– because the parks director doesn’t want to spend $5,000 a year in lawn mowing costs– by claiming that the federal government wants to build a breakwater and deposit new dredge spoils at a controversial dumpsite. But the federal agency in charge says it has no interest in such a plan. A public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday evening, 10/13/15, at 6 pm at the Parklands housing complex in Cecilton, adjacent to the public library, on the county’s planned abandonment of the Stemmers Run boat ramp in Earleville, at the end of Pond Neck Road. The county has a free sub-lease from the state Department of Natural Resources, which in turn leases the waterfront site for free from the US Army Corps of Engineers. The public meeting has been quietly disclosed, via multiple and contradictory signs posted at the boat ramp and waterfront park, as well as a county website posting just a few days ago. The county administration told the County Council recently of its […]