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Published on: 10/11/2004
Last Visited: 2/16/2006
AS SOON as Scott Sewell guns his bass boat into Sue Creek off Middle River, you can see his problem, which is really a rapidly worsening problem for the whole Chesapeake.
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"I guess it's supposed to look pretty, but to me it's ugly because I know what it's done to the environment," says Sewell, who lives on the next creek over and is conservation director of the Maryland Bass Federation.
Ironically, Maryland and Virginia have become generally more protective of the wetlands and other natural vegetation along the bay's tidal shorelines in recent decades.
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"There's so little natural shoreline left around here, it just breaks your heart when you see this," says Sewell as he shows another erosion control project.
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In Middle River, Sewell showed me an excellent erosion control project the county did, using minimal stone combined with wetland plantings.The same might have worked for Hopewell Pointe and the Sue Creek site.