Dividing Creek Rural Legacy Area gets over $1 million to protect more land

Md. Board of Public Works also awards $300,000 for hanger project at Crisfield-Somerset County Airport; ECI funded to upgrade fire system

Crisfield-Somerset County Times
Posted 12/6/21

ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved $1.005 million to Somerset and Worcester counties to continue the purchase of conservation easements from landowners in the Dividing …

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Dividing Creek Rural Legacy Area gets over $1 million to protect more land

Md. Board of Public Works also awards $300,000 for hanger project at Crisfield-Somerset County Airport; ECI funded to upgrade fire system

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved $1.005 million to Somerset and Worcester counties to continue the purchase of conservation easements from landowners in the Dividing Creek watershed.

The Dividing Creek Rural Legacy Area includes plant and wildlife habitat, farmland and forests on both sides a 10-mile stretch of Dividing Creek. Its protection has been a priority for both counties since it was established in 2008 first with The National Conservancy and today the Lower Shore Land Trust as a partner with more than 26,500 acres protected.

Also approved by the BPW’s during its Dec. 1 meeting was a recommendation that the state enter into a grant agreement with Somerset County to provide $300,000 for the design and construction of a hanger at the Crisfield- Somerset County Airport.

Currently there are four to six permanently-based aircraft at the airport, but if there are at least 10 it qualifies for an annual funding allotment from the federal government. The state grant requires no local match but the hanger project is estimated to cost at least $550,000.

At Eastern Correctional Institution, the Department of Public Safety andCorrectional Services received approval to award a contract to Dvorak LLC of Baltimore to upgrade the fire alarm system in the prison, which opened in 1987. The amount is nearly $1.2 million and the terms are to have it completed in 180 days.

The BPW is chaired by Gov. Larry Hogan and members are Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp, who in October announced she would be retiring before her term expired next year.

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