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  • June

    Joint Public Notice: Notice of Availability of the Regional Streamflow Duration Assessment Methods for the Northeast and Southeast

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Baltimore, Buffalo, Charleston, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Worth, Galveston, Huntington, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Little Rock, Louisville, Memphis, Mobile, Nashville, New England, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Savannah, St. Louis, Tulsa, Vicksburg, and Wilmington Districts, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 jointly announce the availability of the Regional Streamflow Duration Assessment Methods (Regional SDAMs) for the Northeast and Southeast (dated June 12, 2025). The methods are rapid assessment tools to help distinguish between ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial streamflow at the reach scale for the Northeast and Southeast SDAM Regions.
  • Craney Island

    Norfolk District Schedules Aerial Mosquito Treatment at Craney Island on June 12

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has scheduled aerial mosquito treatment on June 12th, over the federal property on Craney Island.

  • NAO-2025-00030 (Synagro - Skippers, Greensville County, Virginia)

    The applicant is proposing to construct a compositing facility for the conversion of organic biosolids and wood waste into compost for commercial sale. The proposed project, known as the Synagro Compositing Facility, will include site grading, vehicle accessways and two automotive parking areas, stormwater basins, active bays, curing bays, and overs pile, finished pile, finished product storage areas, mulch pile, scale house, office building, biosolid building and loadout pad. The proposed development will result in permanent impacts to 1.90 acres of wetlands and 83 linear feet of intermittent stream. The purpose of the project is to construct a facility for composting biosolid byproducts.

  • May

    NAO-2022-02902 (Middle James Umbrella Mitigation Bank, Appomattox, Virginia)

    The Sponsor proposes to design, construct, establish, and operate the Bank for the purpose of providing off-site compensatory mitigation for projects that result in unavoidable impacts to waters of the U.S., including wetlands. The Sponsor has proposed that the Bank will consist of two (2) sites, the Natts Branch Site and the Clover Hill Site. The Sites total approximately 122 acres. All work is proposed to occur in Appomattox County, Virginia.

  • 408-NAO-2024-0125 (City of Virginia Beach Rudee Inlet Jetty Anchor System and Dredge Pipe Replacement Project)

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This is a Section 408 request submitted by the City of Virginia Beach for the Rudee Inlet Jetty Anchor System and Dredge Pipe Replacement Project. The proposed activities include the installation of new pipe pile and concrete anchor block structures (22 total) and replacement of the existing dredge discharge pipeline crossing the channel. The proposed work will support the operation of a new larger hydraulic dredge required for maintaining water depths in Rudee Inlet. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 11, 2025.

  • NAO-2019-01172 (Howe Farm Mitigation Bank, Hampton, Virginia)

    Nature Bank, LLC is proposing a to design, construct, establish, and operate compensatory mitigation bank Site on approximately 125 acres. The Site is called the Howe Farm Mitigation Bank. All work is to occur in Hampton, Virginia.

  • 408-NAO-2025-0035 (Safe Harbor Bluewater Marina Improvements Project )

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This Section 408 request was submitted by Safe Harbor Bluewater Marina Improvements Project which includes new work and maintenance dredging and the replacement of multiple fixed piers with floating piers for safe ingress/egress to the marina and for the mooring of larger vessels at the marina along Herbert's Creek (Sunset Creek) located at 25 Marina Road, Hampton, VA. This project may alter the Hampton Creek/Herberts Creek Federal Navigation Channel. The area will be dredged to -6.5-ft MLW and -8.0-ft MLW and transported to an approved upland facility. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 6, 2025.

  • 408-NAO-2025-0031 (City of Norfolk Waterside Timber Pier Replacement Project)

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This is a Section 408 request submitted by the City of Norfolk for the demolition and replacement of a portion of the Waterside Timber Pier, in the same footprint as existing structures. The pier is located behind 333 Waterside Drive in Norfolk, VA and may alter the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River portion of the Norfolk Harbor and Channels Federal Navigation Project (NHC-EBER) and Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management Federal Project (NCSRM). The existing pier has shown significant deterioration and is currently closed to the public. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 6, 2025.

  • 408-NAO-2024-0127 (Town of Tappahannock Captain Thomas Transient Dock Facility)

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This Section 408 Request was submitted by the Town of Tappahannock to construct a canoe/kayak launch and transient boat docking facility situated at the Captain Thomas Site on Hoskins Creek. The overall facility will also offer fuel for transient boaters, a pump-out station, bathhouse, and parking lot. The main purpose of the project is to expand transient boater access along the Rappahannock River and offer a sheltered, deep-water location that is immediately adjacent to a federally maintained navigation channel. The main dock will be a 13-foot-wide by 240-foot-long floating dock that can side moor up to (16) 26-foot-long transient vessels. The floating dock will be ADA accessible and accessed by a 6-foot by 80-foot gangway that connects to a 25-foot by 30-foot fixed timber pierhead. The pierhead will also support the fuel pump and sanitary pump-out station. The pierhead will connect to the landside with an 8-foot-wide by 72-foot-long timber walkway. Upstream from the transient boat dock is a proposed canoe/kayak launch that will be a 10-foot-wide by 20-foot-long floating with an 8-foot by 10-foot gangway support float that is connected to landside with a 5-foot-wide by 40-foot-long gangway. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 5, 2025.

  • 408-NAO-2025-0040 Dominion Terminal Maintenance Dredging Project

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This Section 408 Request is for the continued maintenance dredging at the Dominion Terminal Associates (DTA) facility on the James River adjacent to the Norfolk Harbor and Channels - Channel Newport News Federal Navigation Project. The permitted depth at the facility is currently -57-feet MLW. The current dredging footprint consists of approximately 26.50 acres of subaqueous, unconsolidated bottom. Dredging will be completed mechanically with placement at an approved upland disposal facility. When capacity is available and pending final authorization, future maintenance cycles may utilize the CIDMMA for dredged material placement. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 4, 2025.

  • NOTICE OF RELEASE OF THE NORFOLK HARBOR NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS, ANCHORAGE F MODIFICATIONS, DRAFT LIMITED REEVALUATION REPORT/SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Virginia Port Authority announce the release of the Draft Limited Reevaluation Report/Supplemental Environmental Assessment (LRR/SEA) for the Norfolk Harbor Navigation Improvements, Anchorage F Modifications Study.
  • Aerial

    Norfolk District Schedules Aerial Mosquito Treatment at Craney Island on May 21

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has scheduled aerial mosquito treatment on May 21st, over the federal property on Craney Island.

  • NAO-2019-01928 (New Market South, Chesterfield County, Virginia)

    Stanley Martin Homes, LLC is proposing to construct residential lots, roads, utilities, stormwater management facilities, recreational areas, and open space in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

  • NAO-2007-02396 (Martin Marietta Midlothian Quarry, Chesterfield County, Virginia)

    Martin Marietta, Inc. is proposing to expand the existing Midlothian Quarry and move an existing natural gas pipeline in Chesterfield County, Virginia as well as construct a permittee responsible mitigation site in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

  • April

    NAO-2018-1574 (Mountain Valley Pipeline - South Gate, Pittsylvania County, Virginia)

    Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC is proposing the construction 31.3 miles of 30-inch diameter natural gas pipeline to transport natural gas from an interconnection point with the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Pittsylvania County, Virginia to an interconnection point with the East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC system (East Tennessee) in Rockingham North Carolina, and then to two new delivery points in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

  • 300408-NA0-2024-0121; City of Virginia Beach, 16th St. Outfall Maintenance Improvements

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (33 U.S.C. Section 408) has been received and will be evaluated by the Norfolk District. Comments should be received by close of business on May 9, 2025.

  • NAO-2025-00307 (Rudee Inlet Dredging and Beach Placement, Virginia Beach, Virginia )

    : The City of Virginia Beach requests authorization to perform maintenance dredging of approximately 25.2 acres, by hydraulic methods, of the three (previously permitted) Rudee Inlet navigation channel frameworks (Federal Channel, Outer Deposition Basin, and Lake Wesley Channel), and the beneficial use of dredged materials for beach placement at the (previously permitted) Resort Beach (from 1st – 14th Streets) and/or Croatan Beach. Any material deemed unsuitable for beach placement will be transported via pipeline to the overboard placement area in Lake Rudee. The pipeline will be secured to the bottom utilizing concrete blocks and will have a minimum clearance over the pipeline of 7 feet. The purpose of the project is to provide safe navigational access for recreational and commercial activities, and to provide critical harbor of refuge for vessels traveling enroute up and down the Atlantic Coast. The City of Virginia Beach estimates that approximately 5.1 million cubic yards will be removed from the three Rudee Inlet navigation channel framework projects over the course of ten years.

  • NAO-2025-0692 (Route 750 Bridge Replacement)

    VDOT will be replacing a bridge on Route 750 (Old Turnpike Rd) that crosses a tributary of Stockton Creek in Afton, VA. The existing bridge is a contributing feature of the historic district and the removal of the bridge is considered an adverse effect to the district. The bridge must be replaced due to safety concerns. In compliance with regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the Corps is soliciting comments on the proposed project from the public; federal, state, and local agencies and officials; Native American Tribes; and other interested parties. Comments should be received by the close of business on May 19, 2025.

  • NAO-1993-01934 (NSRC Lambert's Point Yard Pier 6 Berth Deepening, Norfolk, Virginia)

    Norfolk Southern Railway Company is proposing new and future maintenance dredging by mechanical methods to deepen the Pier 6 berthing areas (approximately 33.07 acres) to a maximum depth of -57 feet MLLW to match the depths of the federal navigation channel and to allow more efficient loading and unloading of deeper draft vessels. Comments should be received by close of business on May 16, 2025.

  • Norfolk District, Regulatory Branch Special Emergency Processing Procedures under Executive Order (E.O.) 14156

    The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the United States Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division has approved use of emergency permit processing procedures for the Commonwealth of Virginia in accordance with 33 CFR § 325.2(e)(4), for the National Energy Emergency established by Executive Order (E.O.) 14156, issued on January 20, 2025 under the President’s legal authorities, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq) and section 301 of title 3, United States code.