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MC Watermen’s Wait Continues

Thomas Lee Walton of Locust Hill brings in his morning harvest of crabs at Whitings Creek landing and dock in June 2022. A grant application to seek funding to create and improve waterfront sites for commercial watermen’s access and use  at three Middlesex County public landings has been delayed for at least a year. Whitings Creek landing and dock is one of the sites. The others in Middlesex are Mill Creek Landing in Wake and Stampers Bay Landing at Hartfield. (Photo by Tom Chillemi)

Staffing woes slow commercial fishermen sites grant

The Middle Peninsula Regional Planning District Commission (PDC) announced recently that a grant application to establish sites for developing commercial fishing and maritime waterfront areas has been delayed.

“The grant is advancing but with the PDC office down a staff person, we have requested an extension, which was granted,” said Lewis “Lewie” Lawrence, executive director of the PDC.

“VHB (Vanasse Hangen Brustlin the firm hired through a grant to spearhead the project) is still working on a deliverable grant application to be submitted assuming there is still a grant program to apply to. There is lots going on at the federal level, right now,” he said.

A key PDC employee who was working on the grant is on medical leave, which has slowed down the process, said Lawrence.

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Larry Chowning
Larry Chowninghttps://www.ssentinel.com
Larry is a reporter for the Southside Sentinel and author of several books centered around the people and places of the Chesapeake Bay.