The National Park Service, in its official description of Tangier Island, calls it “little more than a sandbar, barely rising above the raging waters of the Chesapeake Bay.”
Even still, a multimillion-dollar effort is now underway to improve the degrading situation at the island, which recreational boaters have long considered a charming destination to visit. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is spending $300,000 this year on an engineering and analysis study to determine what, exactly, it needs to build. Expectations
