Screen shot of construction cam on Nov 27 ’18 at noon.
Update from email:
Folks,
We are at a point where the last of the surface pavement is ready to be placed on the project. Beginning at on Tuesday, 11/27/2018 paving work will take place on WB Shore Drive between Page Avenue and East Stratford Road and is expected to be completed by 11/29/18. Since nighttime temperatures are expected to be below 40°F, this work will take place during the day between the hours of 9:00AM and 3:00PM. The paving schedule is as follows:
11/27/2018, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WB Shore Drive between the Bridge and East Stratford Road (in front of 3556 On The Bay Condominiums)
Pave the LEFT TURN lane and the INSIDE thru lane on Shore Drive11/28/2018, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WB Shore Drive between the Bridge and East Stratford Road (in front of 3556 On The Bay Condominiums)
Complete paving of the INSIDE thru land on Shore Drive then pave the OUTSIDE thru lane on Shore Drive and East Stratford Road (between Chesapeake House and 3556 On The Bay Condominiums)
WB Shore Drive between Page Avenue and the Bridge (in front of Overture Apartments)
Pave the INSIDE thru lane11/29/2018, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WB Shore Drive between the Bridge and East Stratford Road (in front of 3556 On The Bay Condominiums)
Place permanent pavement markings
WB Shore Drive between Page Avenue and the Bridge (in front of Overture Apartments)
Pave the OUTSIDE thru lane11/30/2018, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
WB Shore Drive between Page Avenue and the Bridge (in front of Overture Apartments)
Place permanent pavement markingsThis schedule may change due to weather.
Please drive carefully when travelling this portion of Shore Drive!
-Chris
Christopher J. Wojtowicz, PE
Engineering Construction Manager
City of Virginia Beach
Department of Public Works
Engineering Division
2405 Courthouse Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23456-9031
Office: (757) 385-5785
Fax: (757) 385-5668
Email: cwojtowi@vbgov.com
#WeLoveShoreDrive 
Captain George Percy, first landed the Jamestown Company just south of Christmas Hill at 44th Street, Virginia Beach. . His party was starving and sick from drinking the tainted fresh water that the company had purchased in Jamaica
The group explored several miles, to the WNW of that beautiful inlet…..Strattons Creek. They found a pristine artesian spring there in Princess Anne Hills. And many tall stately cypress trees. White man had decimated the forests of western Europe decades earlier… And a plethora of large delicious oysters….”.some as big as a dinner plate”.
And on the high ground around Broad Bay and, later, around the Lynnhaven River, large beautiful strawberries that would put those strawberries of their native England to shame, by a factor of five…..And large succulent black mussels. And as it was April, one would assume large black drum, puppy drum and huge jumping mullet. :”A fairer place as man could ever want.”
The landing and dedication of Cape Henry came a couple of days later. And then, a day thereafter, the Southern Shore of Chesapeake Bay….which was later dug, by hand, to become Lynnhaven inlet. (Although, methinks there was a Lynnhaven inlet decades before the Jamestown company).
Since the time of George Percy, railroad embankments in the late 1800s have closed off several little seaside inlets…, Roosevelt’s CCC marsh drainage projects for mosquito control, in the fifties to the seventies, the tax deductible fringe marsh dredging and bulkheading And now Colonel David Hansen’s dredging of the Western Branch navigation channel. Robbing the Lynnhaven Basin of vitally needed nitrogen rich sediment….just like he and his USACE cronies did when they killed the beautiful Red River in Louisiana decades earlier.
Is this a great country, or what?
George Meredith MD, President
Linkhorn-Rudee Waterway Fund