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Article: Intracoastal Waterway group seeks local supportCanal maintenance urgent, lobbyist says.(Y)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2004
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Byline: JEFFREY S. HAMPTON
ELIZABETH CITY -- BY jeffrey s. hampton
The amount of recreational traffic and the economic benefits have not been studied along most of the waterway, she said. A study would cost $1.3 million, about $20,000 per county in all the affected states, she said.
Earlier this year, residents feared that the 22-mile-long Dismal Swamp Canal would be closed when a federal budget proposal was $470,000 short of the $905,000 needed to keep the Deep Creek and South Mills locks operating and the canal dredged and free of debris.