Environmentalists and scientists fear the facility could be harmful.
Environmentalists and scientists are raising fears that a facility Norwegian company AquaCon plans to build in Federalsburg could inundate the shallow Marshyhope Creek with surges of cold water that could make it inhospitable for a population of Atlantic sturgeon that research has shown returns year after year to spawn in its shallow waters with a gravelly bottom. The creek, along with the Nanticoke River it feeds, is believed to be Maryland’s only sturgeon breeding ground.
The department is weighing whether to issue AquaCon a permit that would allow it to release more than 2 million gallons of wastewater a day into the narrow and shallow Marshyhope. The permit would guide the amount and contents of the water — as well as what temperature it must be, an important factor because, while salmon rely on water much colder than what’s typical in the Chesapeake, sturgeon swim up the Marshyhope in search of warm waters in which to spawn.
The company has said its technology has proved to be successful and sustainable, and that the facility is needed to meet increasing demand and to counter increased transportation costs.Yonathan Zohar, an adviser to AquaCon and director of the Aquaculture Research Center at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore, said he believes the temperature of waters released can be managed, and suggested that the wastewater would contain only negligible amounts of geosmin.
“They have no choice, but AquaCon does,” he told a crowd of about 80 people at a recent public meeting about the facility in Federalsburg. Mike Ricci, a Hogan spokesman, said that after Zohar expressed support for the AquaCon project at a meeting of state and Israeli officials on aquaculture cooperation, “I’m sure someone said he was welcome to write a letter.”
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