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District Projects Rate Top Ten in National Magazine
Story and photos by Patrick Bloodgood
Norfolk District Public Affairs Office
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The Virginia Beach, Va., boardwalk, built by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been ranked as one of Sherman’s Travel magazine’s Top 10 American Boardwalks.
The boardwalk is one part of the $120 million Virginia Beach Hurricane Protection Project, which was designed to help reduce the impact coastal storms have on the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
Completed in 2002, the hurricane protection project was Virginia’s most expensive civil works improvement and includes an integrated seawall and boardwalk with a bicycle and pedestrian path, landscaping and architectural treatments, a wider and higher beach berm, an enhanced vegetated dune system, interior drainage improvements and two storm-water pump stations.
The project protects more than six miles of prime beachfront with the boardwalk section stretching for three miles.
The project’s effectiveness was tested shortly after its completion when Hurricane Isabel struck the Commonwealth in 2003. Army Corps of Engineers and Virginia Beach officials estimated the hurricane protection project prevented approximately $82 million in damages to the oceanfront resort area.
For more information, please visit the Virginia Beach Hurricane Protection Project webpage.