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About Cape St. Claire Cape St. Claire is a covenanted community founded in 1949. The convenants are administered on behalf of the community by the Cape St. Claire Improvement Association. Originally designed to be a community of summer cottages, Cape St. Claire is now home to approximately 7, 878 year-round residents living in more than 2, 200 single-family homes. Homes come in all shapes and sizes ( from ranchers to split levels, colonials and contemporaries, all types of homes are found in the Cape ), and the diversity of houses has long been a goal for the community. Cape St. Claire is bound on three sides by water: the Little Magothy River, the Chesapeake Bay, the Magothy River, and Deep Creek. With all that water around, you'd expect a community with many ways to take advantage of it, and Cape St. Claire doesn't disappoint. There are three marinas ( with a combined total of over 200 boat slips ), a boat ramp, several beaches, and a couple of water parks with playground equipment for the kids. Cape St. Claire is very much like a small town. The community has a shopping center, a volunteer fire department, ball fields, and a swimming pool. The Cape also boasts of many community organizations including a garden club, yacht club, Boy and Girl Scout troops, and a recreation council. Cape St. Claire is also served by its own monthly newsletter, The Caper. The Cape St. Claire Elementary School and Broadneck High School are also located within Cape St. Claire. In the late 1980s, the community was granted permission to form a Special Community Benefit District and began collecting an annual fee to pay for administrative costs, special security, and the maintenance of beaches, parks, playgrounds, and other community property. Areas of concern that are frequently discussed at quarterly meetings of the Improvement Association include: zoning enforcement, adequate facilities regulations, and improvements to the aging infrastructure ( e.g., the condition of roads, lack of sidewalks, and the absence of public water ). From its humble beginnings as a summer community, Cape St. Claire has grown to become a thriving community and the largest on the Broadneck Peninsula. If you want to see more of Cape St. Claire,

About Dredging Contractors of America The Dredging Contractors of America, formerly the National Association of Dredging Contractors ( NADC ), is a non-profit trade association that has represented the interests of the U.S. dredging and marine construction industry and its members for over thirty years. The present membership includes twelve large companies, fifteen small companies and five associate members that operate on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, the Great Lakes, the inland rivers, and in Hawaii and Alaska. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the Federal agency responsible for the majority of dredging activities in the United States, controlling the permitting process for all projects, as well as planning and design, feasibility analysis, policy, funding and contract administration. The Corps is the industry's primary customer. Its actions determine the scope, shape and health of the U.S. dredging industry. Changes in the Corps' water resources policy, environ-mental restrictions, procurement pro-cedures, funding and legislation impact the viability and profitability of U.S. dredging contractors. Proactive planning is required to assure that the industry is able to meet all the Corps' dredging needs but also to counteract actions or trends that would have a negative effect on the market. The Corps' contracting policy affords equal opportunity and equal access to information for all contractors. Accordingly, it is difficult for individual contractors to bring policy issues of importance to the Corps in a way that can affect change. The DCA's chief role, therefore, is to be the instrument by which dredging contractors may have an effective dialogue with their major client. The resulting collective voice provides weight to the issues that affect the industry in general and helps to affect changes that would simply be impossible for individual companies to achieve. The DCA has been at the forefront of efforts that include establishment of formal partnering at the highest levels of the Corps and other government entities on issues such as over-depth dredging, emergency response, funding, contractual policy issues, project estimating, and the environment. The DCA has earned the respect of the Corps and other maritime groups for its ability to bring a broad base of industry decision-makers to the table for open and frank discussions of policy issues important to all stakeholders. The DCA also serves as a resource of dredging expertise for other maritime industry groups, both in Washington and elsewhere around the country. These groups frequently consult the DCA and its members on mutually important issues, while at other times DCA members are requested to provide input on technical and commercial issues that affect their projects.