Feds, State Close in on Building New Island in the Chesapeake Bay

Water laps fragments of James Island in the Chesapeake Bay in September 2020. Dave Harp / The Bay Journal

By Jeremy Cox, The Bay Journal. James Island is gone. Long live James Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland Port Administration are finalizing their proposal to resurrect an island that has vanished beneath the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. If all goes according to plan, James Island will convert more than 2,000 […]