“And when that happens, we’ll never ever have a chance of any funding.”Īnother critical player is the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). “This is the first step in trying to undesignate this as a federal channel,” said Joe Pecora, chair of the Boat Basin Commission. (PHOTO: The red circles show the location of the ten buoys the US Coast Guard is proposing to remove from Milton Harbor.) That access is now becoming silted and unnavigable. Perhaps most alarmed should be local realtors who routinely trade on Rye’s waterfront access. Local advocates say over 5,000 people use the harbor – including people from private clubs and residential docks to families enjoying over 1,200 boats. Unless halted, the move threatens the harbor’s designation as a federal channel-and a corresponding array of federal funding that helps maintain the waterway. The US Coast Guard is proposing the removal of all ten navigational buoys in Rye’s Milton Harbor. Rowers from RowAmerica Rye can be seen in the background.)
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