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  • August

    Gathright Dam located in Alleghany County, Va., impounds the water flowing down the Jackson River to create the 2,500 acre Lake Moomaw. The dam has prevented numerous floods over its 30 plus year existence saving countless dollars and lives.

    Gathright Dam ‘pulse release’ to increase Jackson River water flow

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will conduct a pulse release at Gathright Dam, near Covington, Va., on Tuesday, Aug. 13, beginning at approximately 6 a.m.
  • Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area (CIDMMA), also known as Craney Island, is the “Jewel in the Port of Hampton Roads.” Since its construction in 1957, Craney Island’s centralized location provides a low-cost placement option for material dredged from Hampton Roads navigation channels, as well as from private dredging projects.

    Craney Island mosquito spraying set for Aug. 12

    Aerial mosquito spraying Monday at federal properties on Craney Island, adjacent city properties and the Churchland area in Portsmouth.
  • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- An aerial view shows the beach renourishment area near 25th and 26th streets at the Oceanfront Jan. 10, 2013. The beach was 50- to 280-feet wide and dredged sand increased the beach to as much as 300 feet, with a minimum elevation of 8.5 feet. The work was part of the Virginia Beach Hurricane Protection and Beach Renourishment Project, which replenished 1,440,250 cubic yards of sand between 15th and 70th streets.

    Big Beach renourishment complete

    Contractors smoothed out the last of the sand on the Virginia Beach, Va., beachfront Aug. 1, completing a beach renourishment cycle that widened the buffer between punishing storm surge and the city’s homes, businesses and tourist attractions.

  • NAO-2008-1100

    This public notice, dated 1 AUG 2013, is for the Commonwealth Crossing Business Center (CCBC) in Henry County, Virginia and Rockingham County, North Carolina. The applicant's stated purpose of the CCBC is to provide infrastructure, transportation and pad site improvements to accommodate construction for two proposed industrial sites; Project Mercury and Project Atlantis. The entire parcel known as the Roma-Sharpe property is 739 acres; for this proposed phase one, 175 acres will be developed. This public notice expires 31 AUG 2013.

  • July

    The national wetland plant list received its first update since going web based in 2012. The list features 7937 plant species, which is a reduction of 263 species from 2012. (U.S. Army image)

    Agencies prune plant list

    When the national wetland plant list was initially rolled out to the web in May 2012 the Corp’s Regulatory Office said there would be periodic changes. Earlier this month those periodic changes became a reality.

  • NAO-2000-2203 (12-V1378)

    Plains Marketing, L.P. C/O Mr. Dean Gore has applied for a permit modification for redevelopment of the Yorktown Terminal located in York County, Va. The applicant requests additional authorization to permanently impact 0.196 acres of nontidal wetlands and waters of the U.S. and to temporarily impact 1.53 acres of nontidal wetlands and waters of the U.S. to allow for unavoidable impacts during construction.
  • Gathright Dam located in Alleghany County, Va., impounds the water flowing down the Jackson River to create the 2,500 acre Lake Moomaw. The dam has prevented numerous floods over its 30 plus year existence saving countless dollars and lives.

    Gathright Dam ‘pulse release’ to increase Jackson River water flow

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will conduct a pulse release on Tuesday, July 23, beginning at approximately 6 a.m.

  • CENAO-WR-R 2007-04560, 03-V0002, 13-V0688

    Waste Associates C/O Mr. Ernie DeCasper has applied for a permit modification for “The East End Landfill” located in Henrico County, Va. The applicant requests additional authorization to impact 2.45 acres of palustrine open water (borrow pits) and 290 linear feet of intermittent stream for the purpose of expanding the existing landfill with appropriate mitigation.

  • VARTF 2012

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and The Nature Conservancy of Virginia, announces the completion of the Virginia Aquatic Resources Trust Fund 2012 Annual Report. The completed report is attached to this notice. Contact Anna Lawston at 540-937-4197 (anna.r.lawston@usace.army.mil) or Jeanne Richardson at 434-384-0182 (jeanne.c.richardson@usace.army.mil) with questions by the close of business on Aug. 9, 2013.

  • NAO-2011-1976/13-V0846

    Bayshore Concrete Products Corp. proposes to construct two 250-by-8-foot travel lift piers, install concrete panels between the cylinder piles as a wave break, and install four dolphins to protect the travel lift piers in Cape Charles Harbor in the town of Cape Charles, Northampton County, Va. Public comment period ends Aug. 8, 2013.
  • Location where the six reefs will be constructed.

    Craney Island’s oyster mitigation project set for summer launch

    Oysters are expanding their real estate in the Elizabeth River and Hoffler Creek this summer, thanks to a USACE, VPA partnership to construct 16 acres of oyster reef, part of the Craney Island Eastward Expansion project.

  • NAO-2006-07333/13-V0953

    Prince William County Public Schools proposes the construction of 12th High School on an approximately 110-acre site along the eastern side of Dumfries Road, south of the intersection of Dumfries Road and Hoadly Road (Route 642) in Prince William County, Virginia. The work will occur in tributaries to Powell’s Creek. Public comment period ends July 31, 2013.

  • NAO-2008-2007; 13-V0292

    The applicant is requesting authorization to permanently impact 5.40 acres of forested headwater wetlands for the construction of Nimmo Quay East and West; a single family residential subdivision that was previously permitted (97-1450-18) in 1998 and modified in 2003 but never constructed.

  • NAO-2007-0818 Vulcan Construction

    Vulcan Construction Materials proposes to expand the existing quarry pit on the 708-acre Vulcan Jack Quarry site in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The purpose of the work is to extract minerals on a 180-acre portion to the east of the existing pit by extending the existing quarry pit and associated operations and to ensure the maximum extraction of minerals in the most efficient manner.

  • June

    SANDBRIDGE, Va. -- The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, partnering with the city of Virginia Beach, Va., began a five-mile hurricane protection and beach renourishment project in Sandbridge in mid-April, 2013. The $13.35 million non-federal project included the dredging and placement of approximately 2 million cubic yards of sand along public beachfront from Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge to the Dam Neck Naval facility.

    2-plus million cubic yards added to Sandbridge beachfront; Big Beach completion now under way

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A five-mile hurricane protection and beach renourishment project in Sandbridge is complete.

  • NAO - Regional Supplements Grandfather Provision and Wetland Delineations

    Norfolk District Regulatory Branch has developed additional guidance on the use of data sheets from the 1987 Wetland Delineation Manual.
  • NORFOLK -- Michelle Hamor is the 2013 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood risk manager of the year. The Corps gives the award yearly to individuals who excel in the field of flood plain management, which plans for and identifies ways at controlling and reducing flood damages experienced by citizens living in flood plains. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Flood plain manager flooded with praise

    Michelle Hamor, chief of Norfolk District’s flood plain management section, is the 2013 recipient of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Risk Manager of the Year Award. The Corps gives the award yearly to individuals who excel in the field of flood plain management, which plans for and identifies ways at controlling and reducing flood damages experienced by citizens living in flood plains.
  • Gathright Dam's intake tower stands out in Lake Moomaw Oct. 13, 2010. The dam and Lake Moomaw Project provide flood protection of industrial, commerical and residential properties along the Jackson and James rivers with immediate impact on Covington, Va.

    Officials cancel Gathright Dam pulse release

    Federal and commonwealth officials have canceled Gathright Dam’s pulse release scheduled for Tuesday. The Norfolk District, in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, determined that June’s higher-than-average flows in the Jackson River eliminated the need for the first planned pulse release.
  • YORKTOWN, Va. – Contractors use rock to stabilize the York River shoreline along 800 feet of the Colonial National Parkway here June 6, 2013. The area is part of more than four miles of shoreline in need of stabilization due to severe erosion, which is threatening portions of the parkway and the National Park Service’s Colonial National Historic Park. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Corps assists park service in protecting parkway from river

    As the York River encroaches on the Colonial Parkway, engineers have found that rocks are part of the answer to fixing critically damaged and eroded shoreline. That is why contractors, working for the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are using heavy equipment to place large boulders along the edge of the York River to stabilize and strengthen a section of the shoreline.
  • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The Wilmington, N.C.-based dredging vessel Merritt, will be off the Virginia coastline to dredge Rudee Inlet from June 17-20, 2013.

    Corps begins Rudee Inlet dredging

    The Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging the Rudee Inlet Federal Navigation Project here Monday. The Corps’ dredge Merritt, based out of Wilmington, N.C., will dredge for four days to remove shoaling in the channel. Engineers expect to dredge about 20,000 cubic yards of material, which will be placed directly north of the entrance channel and inlet jetties. The $78,000 project is 72 percent federally funded. Virginia Beach will fund the remaining 28 percent.