If something seems apparent and sensible … then in all likelihood, it will never come to pass.

We faintly recall, when the first restoration of New Point Comfort Lighthouse was underway in the 1970s, efforts by Mathews County to convince the Army Corps of Engineers to place dredge spoil around the eroded island.

Dredging of the Chesapeake Bay’s Baltimore channel was underway. Dredged material was available. The solution made sense. But placement of that material where it would be of tremendous benefit never happened.

Decades later, erosion has taken an even heavier toll at New Point and the lighthouse stands more distant than ever from shore.

Dredged channels in Mathews County are filling up to the extent that waterways are losing their channel markers. One problem, the Mathews Board of Supervisors was told Aug. 22, is that dredge spoil sites are hard to find. (Supervisor Jack White suggested at that meeting that the material be used to restore the county’s barri...