Valley Proteins is a chicken rendering plant located east of Cambridge, MD. Dave Harp
Maryland regulators want to give nearly $13 million to a private company to help it clean up nutrient pollution from an Eastern Shore chicken rendering plant it owns that has a history of discharge violations.
Officials with the Maryland Department of the Environment say the grant to Valley Proteins, Inc., will help it achieve an extraordinary level of wastewater treatment for such a facility and improve the health of the Transquaking River, a 23-mile-long Chesapeake Bay tributary into which the plant discharges. The river has been classified since 1996 as impaired by nutrients.
Farm fields and forest that will be used as treated sewage spray fields for the proposed development at Trappe, MD. Miles Creek is in the foreground.Dave Harp
To beachbound travelers, Trappe may be little more than a âspeed awareness zoneâ encountered on their drive to Ocean City, MD. As U.S. Route 50 bypasses the little town on the Chesapeake Bayâs Eastern Shore, about all motorists see is a scattering of modest houses and a handful of gas stations, convenience stores and businesses.
That could begin to change soon. A developer aims to break ground by yearâs end on the first phase of Lakeside, a planned community of 2,501 homes and apartments, a 30-acre lake and a small shopping center. All of it is to be built on undeveloped land the town annexed nearly two decades ago.
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