WELLFLEET – The town s Dredging Task Force is hoping a lobbyist will help open the doors for the dredging of the mooring field in Wellfleet Harbor next year.
Last month, the Select Board approved a $25,000, one-year contract with the lobbying firm FBB Federal Relations, which will represent the town in discussions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The mooring field, also known as Area 2 in the harbor, includes intertidal mud flats that have been designated a special aquatic site by the Fisheries Service. As a result, the Fisheries Service wants the town to pay $13.5 million in mitigation