Posted on 07/03/2012 9:11:49 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Army has been creating an island since 1998 on the Northeast coast of the United States. Slowly, the US Army Corps of Engineers built concrete dikes to establish its perimeter and then have spent more than decade filling them with mud.
Its name: Poplar island.
Fortunately, no weird stuff is going on there (that we know of, anyway). Poplar Island, which is being rebuilt in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, is 30 miles south of Baltimore Harbor, where all the mud is coming from.
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East Coast Alcatraz??
I won’t believe it till Alex Jones says that nothing is going on there. /s
Last Stand Zombie Redout???
Meanwhile real islands are washing away and nothing is being done about it.
Strange. It looks like the mandible from a skull.
I hope it doesn’t tip over.....
I was hoping it would be an alien landing sight for reptilians from Zeti Reticuli...
But Noooooo...it's an enviro-nut project.
This is a real island that was washing away. The idea is to take dredged material from Baltimore Harbor and instead of dumping it at sea to dump it here and restore the island.
It could be the re-education camp, for those infidels that don’t follow the communist agenda
The title is somewhat misleading. They are not “creating” an island but instead adding landfill to a smaller existing one. People lived on this Island until the early 1900s and it has always been an important strategic military location.
I fish around that Island all of the time... it is about a 30 minute boat ride for me. This is something good the government has done...
Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay, was first seen by Spanish explorer Juan Menendez de Marques in 1573. It is part of Talbot County, Maryland and is currently being rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using dredged mud from the Baltimore Harbor, located approximately 30 miles north/north-west of the island. The project's current estimate of cost is $667 million[1] and is, according to schedule, going to be completed in year 2027. Contents 1 History 1.1 Restoration with dredged material 2 Wildlife sanctuary 3 References History English colonists began settling Poplar Island in the 1630s. It served as a campsite for British warships during the War of 1812.[1] The island had split into three pieces by the late 1800s. At that time, the larger piece was home to the town of Valiant, a community of 100 residents, with its own post office, school, general store, and a sawmill. Its sawmill may have contributed to the island's erosion by cutting down all of the trees, whose roots held the sandy soil together.[1] By 1920, the last permanent resident had left and the island became a hunting retreat. A clubhouse built on Poplar Island during the 1930s had two presidents among its vacationing guests: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The clubhouse burned down in 1946. [1] Poplar Island's landmass covered more than 1,000 acres in 1847, shaped in a four-mile long crescent, bending around Jefferson Island (east). Erosion eventually reduced its landmass to less than 10 acres by 1990, most of which comprised its southern piece, Coaches Island. Three tiny fragments to the north of Coaches Island were known as North Point, Middle Poplar and South Poplar.[2][3] Restoration with dredged material Rebuilding Poplar Island.ogv Rebuilding Poplar Island. Federal and state officials selected Poplar Island as dumping site for material dredged from Baltimore's shipping channels in the 1990s. This would allow restoration of the island while halting the earlier practice of open water dumping. Reconstruction of the island began in 1998 with the erection of dikes to contain the dredged material.[1][4] Hart Miller Island, another badly eroded island in the Chesapeake Bay, received dredged material over a 25 year period. By 2009, this island had been restored to 1,100 acres of wildlife habitat and recreation land.[5] Dredged material from shipping channels in the Chesapeake Bay may also be used to restore James Island, as part of the Mid-Bay Island Restoration Project. James Island, located at the mouth of the Little Choptank River, had eroded to three tiny fragments. The projects plans call for adding 2,000 acres to James Island with dredged material to restore the island to its historic footprint. However, work on James Island depends upon the project's inclusion in federal grants for the Water Resources Development Act; funding had not yet been approved as of March 2011.[5] Wildlife sanctuary Since its reconstruction with dredged material began in 1998, Poplar Island had grown to 1,140 acres by 2005. Plans call for the addition of another 575 acres. Half of the island's acreage will be turned into wetlands and half into uplands. The project will use 40 million cubic yards of dredged material protected by 35,000 feet of containment dikes, built with 75% federal funding and 25% state funding. Only "clean" material, dredged from approach channels, is being used on Poplar Island. The Poplar Island restoration project will not use material dredged from close to Baltimore, which may be contaminated with toxic waste.[2][4] The island is the home of approximately 170 different species of birds, including terns and bald eagles. More than 1,000 diamondback terrapins have been reported hatching annually on the island in recent years. [1]
I always wanted to spend the last hours of my life in waist-deep mud in the middle of Chesapeake Bay. Maybe the last meal would be crab cakes. That would be OK.
http://www.estuaries.org/pdf/2010conference/monday15/harbor/session2/guy-chris.pdf
A 27 year, 700 million dollar beneficial use of dredged material project. Accepting clean material from Baltimore approach channels to restore island habitat to the Chesapeake Bay.
See anybody around there that looks like her?
The only problem that I have with this is that if you or I tried to do it, we would be in jail.
Nah- you just get invaded by your stronger neighbors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva
Ursula Andress was such a beauty in her heyday!
Also called: “Ursula Undress”...
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