With a warming climate making heavy rains more frequent and the increasing runoff damaging waterways across the Chesapeake Bay region, local officials now are ready to give up on the idea of Lake Accotink being a lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged Lake Accotink in 1965. Nearly four years later, the public works department concluded that a variety of previously unknown factors would drive up the cost. “Right now, the prognosis for this project is not good,” said Supervisor James R. Walkinshaw (D-Braddock), whose district includes a large portion of Lake Accotink. You have to keep investing and taking care of these waterways that have been so disturbed.”That reality complicates the question over what to do about Lake Accotink.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2023 02:29 UTC