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  • August

    NAO-2012-08231

    The Clarksville Field Office will be officially closed on September 30, 2012. Localities will be reassigned to other field offices.
  • NORFOLK – Roughly 40 district employees received an inspiring performance from Kate Campbell Stevenson who brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the district’s Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012. Introduced into legislation in 1971, Women’s Equality Day celebrates the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The amendment was certified August 26, 1920.

    Stevenson wows district crowd at women’s event

    Kate Campbell Stevenson brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the districts Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012.
  • This rendering shows the final plans for the new Visitor Center and traffic flow at the LaSalle Avenue Gate at Langley Air Force Base, Va. Construction will close the gate for approximately six months. (Graphic courtesy of 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron)

    Langley's gate construction makes way for new visitor center

    The second and final phase of gate construction here kicked off Monday. The construction, a $7.6 million joint-venture project constructed by W.M. Jordan/Versar, Inc. and overseen by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will provide a new guardhouse and a 2,800 square-foot visitor center at the LaSalle Avenue gate.
  • WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Crews work to build a new beach at NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility here. The newly built beach will help protect more than $1 billion in federal government and Commonwealth of Virginia assets located here. The Wallops Island facility is home to, not only NASA, but also the US Navy Surface Combat Systems Center and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport making this a growing economic generator for the Commonwealth of Virginia and the region.

    Beach complete, infrastructure protected

    More than 3 million cubic yards of newly deposited sand is protecting the launch pads and critical infrastructure at NASA’s flight facility at Wallops Island, Va.

  • NAO-2011-02474

    The project is located on an unnamed tributary to Dawkins Branch in Prince William County, Va. The impacts are associated with the construction of 3 warehouses, including associated infrastructure, within the Norfolk and Southern Industrial Park.
  • FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- A controlled explosion breaches a section of Embrey Dam on Feb. 23, 2004 as part of the dam's removal process. The 94 year old dam no longer served a useful purpose and was removed to help restore the environment along the Rappahannock River. (U.S. Army file photo)

    Benefits of dam removal reach further than expected

    In an area roughly 73 to 93 miles upstream from where Embrey Dam once stood on the Rappahannock River, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey noticed resurgence in the American eel population in their once-natural habitat, now that they are longer impeded by the 22-foot-high structure.

  • NAO-2012-01384

    Anderson’s Neck, LLC proposes to establish a commercial oyster nursery for the purpose of growing native Crassostrea virginica from seed on approximately 64.5 acres of leased oyster ground in Morris Bay on Poropotank Creek, a tributary of the York River. The proposal up to 6900 floating oyster cages attached to 690 long lines, two enclosed floating structures containing two solar powered upwellers, and four stand-alone solar powered upweller platforms.

  • Craney Island mosquito spraying scheduled

    The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Portsmouth will conduct joint aerial mosquito spraying from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., August 10, at federal properties on Craney Island, adjacent city properties and the north Churchland area in Portsmouth, Va.

  • NAO-2006-7731/12-V0974

    Reed Enterprises, Inc. proposes to expand an existing commercial automobile maintenance operation by constructing two 6,000 square foot collision repair buildings and associated parking, and relocating an existing storm water pond (BMP). The project is located south of the intersection of Holland Road and Dam Neck Road on GPIN numbers 1495-13-8628 and 1495-14-6175 in Virginia Beach, Va. The site drains into West Neck Creek, a tributary to North Landing River, a navigable water of the U.S.

  • July

    Dredge Currituck: the little Corps vessel with a huge maritime mission

    From Florida to Maine, one unique vessel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ maritime fleet earns its “indispensable” reputation 363 days a year by dredging dangerous shoaling in shallow draft federal channel inlets: hopper dredge Currituck. The Currituck recently spent three days dredging the federal channel at Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach, Va., and removed more than 7,700 cubic yards of shoaling sand. The Currituck hopper dredge then transported the fine sand, offloading it along the Virginia Beach coastline to replenish the city’s beachfront erosion.

  • NAO-2012-0994

    The applicant proposes to construct seven new riprap breakwater structures, relocate an existing breakwater, demolish seven timber groins, improve the existing terminal groin, and excavate sandy material to be used to construct a dune and nourish the beach from approximately 8th View Street to Lea View Avenue in Ocean View.

  • NAO-2012-00998

    The applicant proposes to construct a parking lot to meet a need for increased parking for Meridian Parkside Apartments, a previously permitted project.

  • NAO-1996-02465_12-V0366

    Department of Game and Inland Fisheries proposes to realign and improve the navigable entrance of the canal at the entrance to Back Bay from the Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area boat launch facility in Virginia Beach, Va. by reconstructing the recently demolished jetties and dredging fopm outside the jetty to a point inside the entrance of the canal. Bulkhead and riprap propsed to prevent erosion along canal.

  • NAO-2010-2476

    The proposed project, located south of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Va., is associated with the new road construction, Crosstrail Boulevard. It consists of the discharge of fill material into waters of the U.S. and work will occur in tributaries to Sycolin Creek.

  • NAO-2006-6951 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters proposes to utilize an existing 329,000 square foot warehouse to manufacture coffee-related products.

  • Revision of Standard Joint Permit Application

    The Norfolk District Corps of Engineers, Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission have issued revised versions of the Standard and Tidewater Joint Permit Applications. Changes to the Tidewater JPA include updated webpage links and some minor required information fields.

  • NAO-2012-1419 Rt 58

    The applicant proposes drainage and roadway improvements to the Tri-County and Laurel Fork sections of the U. S. Route 58 corridor. Both sections will be expanded from an existing two-lane configuration to a 4-lane, divided highway with median-separated twin 2-lane pavement in each direction.

  • NAO-2001-4137 Enviva section 10_404_EFH

    The applicant proposes to mechanically dredge material near Paradise Creek and the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Va., for the purpose of continuing to provide Enviva, a biomass fuels company, the necessary deep water access to export wood chips and pellets.

  • NAO-2011-00652

    The Dickenson County Public Schools proposes to construct a new consolidated school campus and associated components to serve Dickenson County, Virginia as part of the Nonstructural General Plan developed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District under Section 202 of the 1981 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (P.L. 96-367).

  • Reissuance Norfolk District Regional Permit

    The Norfolk District has reissued Regional Permit 20 (RP-20) for the creation of artificial reefs and dredging of old shellfish reefs when the material will be used to create new or enhance old reefs owned, operated or managed by the Commonwealth of Virginia.