FFC February 2016 freshet update

[Mike Bailey]

Friends of Fletchers Cove

February 2016 Update

While it may not feel like it, the shad run at Fletchers Cove is just weeks away. Rain and snowmelt from the January blizzard raised the Potomac River to nearly ten feet at the Little Falls gauge last week. The Cove weathered the highest water level in four years.

Thanks to the efforts of the Fletchers Cove staff, the main dock was moved from its mooring, secured in calmer water and returned to its place over a 72-hour period. Despite showing its age, the dock survived the strong current and requires only normal maintenance. Meanwhile, the floating walkway installed by the National Park Service last year remained in place and suffered no visible damage, but now rests higher on the newly deposited four to six inches of silt.

While not surprising, the aftermath of the February freshet serves as a stark reminder that new sediment continues to elevate the Cove’s infrastructure and gradually choke off our longstanding access to the Potomac River.

Friends of Fletchers Cove continues to actively fundraise for the first phase of remediation at the Cove. Thank you to our supporters who have helped us raise 8% of our $150,000 goal in just a few months, money needed for the core and bore sampling that will qualify our debris for relocation. Please join them and donate now or to see how you can help.

For more information about the work required at Fletchers Cove, this link will take you to the proposed long range remediation plan.

To support our cause, this link will take you to the FFC / Canal Trust donation page.

Please HELP SAVE THE COVE!    Questions email in...@friendsoffletcherscove.org  

[Bob Smith]

Mike, since the Corps of Engineers is looking for fill for Dykes Marsh would they help contribute $$ to the core sample studies cost?

[Mike]

To the best of my knowledge the http://www.fodm.org/ or Friends of Dyke Marsh are much further along in the effort to remediate. The George Washington Memorial Park and COE have a memorandum of understanding which is part of the 5 year planning and marsh reclamation.  Fletchers Cove sediment and fill has been recognized as a possible source of material for Dyke Marsh.  Meanwhile FFC and its partners have all agreed that fundraising for and subsequent FC soil testing is a process that will help or qualify FC fill thereby clearing a path for it's final resting place.  Please keep in mind that the cost of FC core and bore testing is a fraction of what relocating it will be.  

While funding is important awareness and advocacy is mission critical.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:11 AM, 'Bob Smith' via Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Mike, since the Corps of Engineers is looking for fill for Dykes Marsh would they help contribute $$ to the core sample studies cost?

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[TurbineBlade]

Oh, the awareness comes easy!  I know what a pile of sediment looks like better than anyone in TPFR. 

Gene

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 8:47:42 AM UTC-5, Mike wrote:

To the best of my knowledge the http://www.fodm.org/ or Friends of Dyke Marsh are much further along in the effort to remediate. The George Washington Memorial Park and COE have a memorandum of understanding which is part of the 5 year planning and marsh reclamation.  Fletchers Cove sediment and fill has been recognized as a possible source of material for Dyke Marsh.  Meanwhile FFC and its partners have all agreed that fundraising for and subsequent FC soil testing is a process that will help or qualify FC fill thereby clearing a path for it's final resting place.  Please keep in mind that the cost of FC core and bore testing is a fraction of what relocating it will be.  

While funding is important awareness and advocacy is mission critical.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:11 AM, 'Bob Smith' via Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Mike, since the Corps of Engineers is looking for fill for Dykes Marsh would they help contribute $$ to the core sample studies cost?

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[namfos]

About relocating the fill  - instead of trucking it, wouldn't it be better and less expensive to load it in barges?

Mark

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 8:47:42 AM UTC-5, Mike wrote:

...Please keep in mind that the cost of FC core and bore testing is a fraction of what relocating it will be.  

[Mike]

Agreed.  Should FC sediment and fill meet requirements for Dyke Marsh the most cost effective relocation method would be by barge.

[Yambag Nelson]

Not knowing anything about dyke marsh, I have a hard time imagining that the sediment at fletchers would be clean enough to use for anything.