Cambridge Flooding Resiliency Project Hits Bump in the Road

(CAMBRIDGE, Md) – The City of Cambridge is facing a looming deadline for their Flooding Resiliency Project along the banks of the Choptank River, and some of the residents who live along the water are sharing their concerns.

The Flooding Resiliency Project has been discussed for years in the Dorchester County community, and with a December deadline to secure funding for installing a berm on the shoreline.

Cambridge City Manager, Glenn Steckman tells WMDT, “We are on a tight schedule right now to submit, the final design to the state to decide if they’re going to move ahead and approve funding. We are in communication with the property owners directly…”

Cambridge Mayor, Lajan Cephas says the next stage is designing, and this is where some members of the community are speaking up

One Cambridge resident spoke with us off camera, saying he and a few other property owners are not on board.

He says, “Doing the wrong thing isn’t necessarily better than doing nothing at all right now. So, I mean, you got this. This is a permanent transformation of of some of the most valuable assets of Cambridge.”

The same resident says Cambridge should be trying to limit flooding in other ways before resorting to a massive project that could impact property owners.

And it’s something the city will have to take into account.

“We’ve been starting to meet with property owners and and we have more to do. We have a lot of work to do over the next month or so,” says Glenn.