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In late May, Charles County reapplied for permits to fill wetlands for its proposed extension to the Cross County Connector.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it plans to hold a hearing in early July! We don’t know yet when or where the hearing will be (it will be local, probably on a weekday evening).

Your attendance at the hearing is crucial, with the message that Mattawoman Creek, and our environment, deserve the full study of an Environmental Impact Statement.

ACTION: Please email the Mattawoman Watershed Society info@mattawomanwatershedsociety.org  and ask to be alerted when the wetland hearing will be held.

The Cross County Connector extension is a new, four-lane highway that would enter and cut through the Mattawoman watershed, with severe impacts due to the roadway and, especially, to its growth inducing impacts.  It would impact over seven and a half acres of wetlands, a significant fraction of the annual loss in the entire state of Maryland. The growth inducing effects would magnify these impacts many fold. But only through an Environmental Impact Statement will we learn the full scope of the impacts.

Please see www.mattawomanwatershed.org for more information about this unneeded highway and the threat it poses.