Notice Type
The Worcester County Commissioners will hold public hearings to consider applications filed by the Department of Environmental Programs. The first amendment, for the Ocean Downs Casino, seeks to revise water system in the Master Water and Sewerage Plan (The Plan). Those changes would include a revision to a water service map and a revised water system for the casino. The Casino desires to replace their existing 100,000-gallon elevated steel water tank with a 150,000 gallon bolted steel ground-level storage tank. The second amendment seeks to revise certain water and wastewater system informational items for proposed capital projects in The Plan with the addition of Capital Projects and planned interconnection projects to The Plan without a change of the previously approved water and sewer boundaries. The Department of Public Works proposes to revise certain water system informational items in The Plan. Those changes would include the addition of the following capital projects 1) Interconnection of the Mystic Harbour and Riddle Farm water systems with the Herring Creek Water Main Interconnection; 2) Mystic Harbour Treated Effluent to Riddle Lagoon; 3) Sunset Avenue Relief Sewer; and 4) Mystic Harbour Water Plant and Building Rehabilitation. The Worcester County Planning Commission reviewed the proposed Water and Sewerage Plan amendments at their meeting of February 6, 2025, and found them to be consistent with the Worcester County Comprehensive Plan.
The public hearing on these applications will be held on:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at 10:30 A.M.
in the
Commissioners’ Meeting Room
Room 1101 – Government Center
One West Market Street
Snow Hill, Maryland 21863