As Parrott Island erodes, it is apparently creating silting issues for nearby Wake landing; officials make fixing it higher priority
by Larry Chowning –
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) approved moving Mill Creek Landing at Wake up their “priority landing” list to find funds to develop an engineering plan to keep sand from continuously filling in the boat ramp.
At the end of May, 1,800 cubic yards of sand were removed from in and around the ramp by local marine contractors who volunteered their time and efforts.
At the board’s July meeting, the supervisors’ Hartfield representative, John Koontz, informed his fellow supervisors that the area in and around the boat ramp was refilling with sand.
At that meeting, supervisors requested that the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission (MPPDC) study the availability of grant funds to assist the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) and the MCBS to proceed with engineering on the project.
DWR (formerly called the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries) is charged with the maintenance of the facility and several years ago dredged sand away from the ramp only for it to quickly silt in. DWR officials have told county supervisors they do not want to spend any more state maintenance funds on the ramp until an engineering study is done. They also indicated it will be several years before state funding is available to do that study.
Mill Creek boat landing is one of the busiest landings in Middlesex…
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