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$Millions in grants coming to the Shore

June 17, 2018 by Wayne Creed 4 Comments

VIRGINIA BEACH — U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine on Wednesday announced $55.985 million in new federal funding for communities in Hampton Roads, Richmond, and on the Eastern Shore for water infrastructure improvements.

  • $1.75 million for Waterway on the Coast of Virginia (90-mile channel from the MD-VA line in Chincoteague Bay to the Chesapeake Bay) – This funding supports maintenance dredging to provide vessels a protected 90-mile north-south route connecting Eastern Shore harbors to one another and to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • $250,000 for Chincoteague Inlet – This funding supports maintenance dredging to remove shoals in the inlet and surveys to monitor and report channel conditions to users, and to coordinate with the Coast Guard on buoys and channel markers.

The funding is awarded through the Army Corps of Engineers’ “Work Plan,” a source of funds provided by Congress for the Corps to allocate to ongoing projects, according to a news release from Kaine’s office.

“From dredging and beach replenishment to cleaner rivers to new oyster habitats to new infrastructure for the Port of Virginia, these investments will help us protect coastal communities and the environment while growing the regional tourism and port commerce economies,” the senators said in a joint news release.

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  1. David Gay says

    June 17, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    How about fixing Cape Charles Harbor. Putting in proper breakwaters and wave attenuators to calm down the water so more boaters can use the docks. No one wants to have their boat tossed around and damaged by the rough water. What happened to the grant money that was acquired to specifically build the breakwater?

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  2. Daniel Burke says

    June 18, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    Hmmm. Is there an election coming up anytime soon? 😉

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    • Joseph Corcoran says

      June 20, 2018 at 11:13 pm

      I’m just guessing…but suspect burke doesn’t even know what the Virginia Inside Passage ( VIP ) is . It has needed dredging for 20 years .

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      • David Muir says

        June 21, 2018 at 12:17 pm

        I hope the money covers new channel markers. Many of them are missing.

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