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Norfolk District Navigation Mission

Since the U.S. Congress first appropriated money in 1884 to improve navigation on the James and Elizabeth rivers (Norfolk Harbor), the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been responsible for  removing shoals, snags and other obstacles. 

The district is also responsible for development and maintenance of coastal waterways, ports, and harbors to provide safe, reliable, efficient, and environmentally sustainable waterborne transportation systems for commercial transportation, provide safe harbor of refuge for recreational boaters and provide safe navigation integral to national defense in the commonwealth of Virginia.

 

Deep Draft Projects

Deep draft navigation projects are projects maintained to depths of 14 feet or deeper and classified as medium to high commercial use (over 1 million tonnes annual).
 
Norfolk Harbor James River York River
Baltimore Harbor Cape Charles Harbor  

 

Shallow Draft Navigation Projects

Shallow draft navigation projects are projects maintained to depths shallower than 14 feet and have low commercial use (Less than 1 million tonnes annually), these projects may also provide a safe harbor of refuge.
 

Eastern Shore

Chincoteague

Rudee Inlet

Chesconnessex Creek

Deep Creek (Accomack County)

Guilford Creek

Little Machipongo River

Nandua Creek

Occhannock Creek

Oyster Channel

Parker Creek

Parrots Creek

 Quinby Creek 

Starlings Creek

Tangier Channels

 Whitings Creek  

Waterway of Coastal Virginia

Wishart Point

  

 

Hampton Roads

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Channel from Phoebus

 Deep Creek (Newport News)

Eastern Haven Creek

Fishermans Cove

 Hampton Creek/Herberts Creek 

Knitting MIll Creek

Langley Air Force Base Back River

 Little River (Creek) 

Long Creek Municipal Channel

Lynnhaven Inlet

 Lafayette River Channel

Newport News Creek

Portsmouth Harbor

 Rudee Inlet
Willoughby Channel

 

  

 

James River

Appomattox River

Bennett Creek

Jones Creek
Mill Creek        MARAD - James River   Nansemond River     

 

Skiffes Creek

Tylers Beach Channel

  


Rappahannock River

Greenvale Creek

Hoskins Creek

Locklies Creek

Rappahannock River

 

Urbanna Creek

  

 

Western Shore

Broad Creek

 

Back River, Messick Point

 

Cranes Creek

 

Davis Creek  

 

Dymers Creek

 

Horn Harbor

 

Jackson Creek 

 

Milford Haven

 

Queens Creek

 

Winter Harbor

       

 

York River

Aberdeen Creek 

 

Wormley Creek

 

York River