With climate change pushing sea water levels even higher, maintaining local shorelines is becoming even more of a challenge.
Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (PAA) is charged with setting aside public access sites for all types of recreational activities important to the area’s economy and finding ways of maintaining the area’s shoreline and protecting the valuable waterfront tax base that is associated with it.
Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission (MPPDC) Executive Director Lewis “Lewie” Lawrence said sea level rise and shoreline protection is one of the greatest challenges for waterfront landowners and that PAA is partnering with and supporting private enterprise in developing “trailblazing” shoreline protection technology.
