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Prime Hook Wildlife Refuge on Fed's Asistance List

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Delaware State environmental Secretary Colin O’Mara told a joint legislative committee that federal funds will be available to shore up the chronically flooded and steadily eroding Prime Hook national Wildlife Area.

The funds come from the $60 billion approved in Washington to help out those hit by Hurricane Sandy.

O’Mara told the Joint Finance Committee that Prime Hook is on the list of projects just issued by the Department of the Interior for allocation of the funds.

He said this would be the start of one of the biggest coastal marsh restoration project on the Atlantic coastline.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that Fish and Wildlife has recommended $20 million to begin repairs to Delaware Bay beaches and dunes as well as rehabilitation of marshland.

That’s before the new inlets that were created by Hurricane Sandy.

  

 

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.