A resident of Accomack County recently wrote to Governor Kaine to express concerns about Captain’s Cove application for a permit to discharge sewage into Swan’s Gut Creek and Chincoteague Bay. The Honorable L. Preston Bryant, Jr., Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources, answered that inquiry on behalf of the Govenor by letter dated August 15, 2006. The final paragraph of Secretary Bryant’s letter reads in its entirety as follows:
“The Captain’s Cove project is complicated, and DEQ [Department of Environmental Quality] has considered all information that has been received from the public, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, and the Virginia Department of Health. After reviewing all information and comments, the DEQ staff has recommended to the State Water Control Board that they deny the permit application. The decision is likely to come before the Board at the next meeting on September 6.”
