NASA to Launch 5 Rockets from Wallops Island

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Wallops Island Rocket Launch

March 15: Midnight – 1:30 a.m. EDT

SCRUBBED: Tonight’s ATREX launch attempt has been cancelled due to internal radio frequency interference on one of the instrumented payloads. The next launch attempt will be no earlier than Friday/Saturday with the go/no-go decision to be made late Thursday afternoon.

 NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 14 as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The launch window currently is 11 p.m. to 6:30 EDT, March 14 – April 3. The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth. As part the mission, the five rockets will release a chemical tracer that will form milky, white clouds that allow scientists and the public to “see” the winds in space. These clouds may be visible for up to 20 minutes by residents from South Carolina to southern New Hampshire and Vermont. More information on the ATREX mission is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex.html

Webcast of the mission will begin 2 hours before the opening of the launch window

The city is tentatively planning a ribbon cutting with Mayor Sessoms on Saturday, March 24th at 10:00 am celebrating the new bike lane on Shore Drive in First Landing.

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From Tidewater Bicycle Association:

The transformation of this stretch of highway into a more bike friendly one can be summed up in one word- Wow! Given all of the interest from the cycling community and Shore Drive/Bayfront area residents over the past decade this is a day that has been a long time coming. It can truly be said that Virginia Beach’s planners and engineers hit the ball out of the park with this project.

Photo from Tidewater Bicycle Association

THANK YOU VIRGINIA BEACH CITY COUNCIL!

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Tonight, City Council voted unanimously to preserve Pleasure House Point forever.

Wow!

Thank you.

Response to a FOIA request re: Lynnhaven Boat Ramp use as a dredge spoils operation

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From an email responding to their FOIA request:

With respect to your recent request for a copy of the City Council resolution regarding the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp at Crab Creek, Deputy City Manager Dave Hansen provided the following:
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Respectfully request we covey the following to the FOIA requestor.
1. There was no City Council Resolution removing the LBR from consideration as a transfer site.
2. The LBR Transfer Station was not “moved” to the Thaila site. The Thalia transfer site is a separate and distinct logistics node supporting a completely separate area of the Lynnhaven River system.
3. The Lynnhaven River system was divided into five project control areas each designated by what we refer as the bubble chart. This allowed City water resource engineers an ability to assess each area for potential logistics node locations to provide multiple outcomes – one of which is to serve as a transfer site.
4. The Beaches & Waterways Advisory Cmte took a look at this concept and has agreed that the Northern Western Branch and Lynnhaven Inlet Control Area is best served by establishing this logistics node at the Crab Creek Disposal Material Holding Area adjacent to the LBR.
5. The City has submitted for a temporary permit to construct the bulkhead and the concrete work pads to serve as a transfer site for the Material lay down and construction equipment and preparation area necessary for the construction of the Lesner Bridge Replacement Project.
6. The City staff briefed the Bayside Advisory Committee on 16 Feb and briefs the Ocean Park Civic League today, 8 March.
7. The staff intends to operate a collaborative site where by public access to the Boat Launch will be maintained while allowing the extensive construction traffic of mixed vehicles and equipment to prosecute the complex task of building the replacement bridge.
8. At some point halfway through the construction the City will hold a public information meeting to receive input about how the coexistence has gone with regards to maintaining access to the boat launch.
9. Staff will assess the public input and the facts established regarding operating the logistics node while maintaining public access to the site before making a recommendation to City Council to permanently establish the transfer site logistics node – likely to occur midyear 2014.
Dave Hansen
Deputy City Manager
City of Virginia Beach
757-385-4242

The New Lesner Bridge. The Official Presentation.

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You’ve heard we’re getting a new bridge.

Check out the Official Presentation from the City. [ 24pg PDF]

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Lesner Bridge Replacement

    Project fully funded.
    VBGov.com Official Project Page.
    2.168.000: Lesner Bridge Replacement (Partial)

Links to, and screen shots of archived Official Western Branch Lynnhaven River Maintenance Dredging (CIP 8-005) Public Works page at VBGov.com.

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Partial screen shot of Official Page at VBGov.com.

Link to Official Page at VBGov.com thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
Western Branch Lynnhaven River Maintenance Dredging (CIP 8-005) October 12, 2008
Note: Links to Official Documents like PDFs, Photos etc in right column of above page do not work.

Partial screen shot of Official Page at VBGov.com.

“Public Involvement

A public information workshop was held on June 5, 2007. A second Public Meeting was held on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Based upon feedback received at the Public Meeting, alternate sites for a dredged material transfer station were evaluated. The proposed transfer facility has been moved from the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp Facility to a site located near the crossing of Thalia Creek and Virginia Beach Blvd. Concept plans have been developed for a multi-use facility that will incorporate the dredged material transfer facility, public access to the Lynnhaven River, a canoe/kayak launch and a crew facility.”

Link to Official Page at VBGov.com thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
Western Branch Lynnhaven River Maintenance Dredging (CIP 8-005) March 27, 2009

Note difference in Official Page from October 2008 vs March 2009 in Official Files that were included vs not include in later page.

Note: What happened to this Official Page? It can no longer be found in the current http://www.VBGov.com. Can someone provide the hot link in the new VBGov.com website?

WAVY’s Andy Fox’s Comments on NDP

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – For over a year, Broad Bay Island residents have worked to stop barges full of mud from coming up a creek and crossing in front of their waterfront property.

Tuesday night, they won that battle.

Virginia Beach City Council agreed with the residents and backed down.

“Stop the sludge means we don’t want other people’s sludge on our waterways,” said Broad Bay Island resident Lynn Hume last March.

The city wanted to use hopper barges to dump sludge, dredged from inlets across Virginia Beach, onto a piece of privately owned land. That property, which is zoned as residential, is a 100 yards across the creek from Hume’s home.

Fifteen months after the fight began, it ended with city council pulling the site on Long Creek from consideration.

“With what we’ve gone through, nothing surprises me. When it comes to the City, we have been deceived so many times and misled by city staff so many times, that is why it got out of hand and that’s what upset us,’ said resident Ed Cunningham.

It took Tom Fraim and the Beaches and Waterways Advisory Commission to finally convince Virginia Beach that the Long Creek site isn’t the right location. The Zoning Administration also told the city that, but the city pushed ahead anyway.

“It gets on our plate because it is controversial, and yes, the people of Long Creek were very well organized” Fraim said.

“Stand up and be heard, and the system can work if you get people involved,” exclaimed Broad Bay Island Resident Mike Megge. “We worked that system. It took a lot of hard work, a lot of organization and a lot of dedicated people.”

Getting a little media attention doesn’t hurt.

“A lot of time, you don’t know what happens with a story, but it give people closure to a story when you exposed it. You followed it through to the end, and I think that helped the whole process,” Megge added.

The alternative site for neighborhood dredging is up the creek at a city-owned property, between the Lynnhaven Marine Boatel and the Marina Shores Shoppes.

The land is owned by Gale Levine Higgs who did not want to do an interview, but told 10 On Your Side on the phone, “So much has to happen for this to happen…I gave the strip of land to the City for drainage purposes only…not for a sludge transfer station.”

Higgs made it clear legal action could follow if the city plans on using the site for anything other than drainage.

Crab Creek Lesner Bridge Transfer Site

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Admin at Save the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp and Beach Facility Facebook Page needs pictures of anything to do with this subject including announcements, pictures, etc. The web address is below for that page. Please like that page to receive updates. Looks like several alternate sites have been found already in just 3 days!!! PAGE LINK BELOW!!

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Andrew R. Broyles
3604 East Stratford Rd.
Va. Beach, Va. 23455
cell 757 621 2082
office 757 460 5678
https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheLynnhavenBoatRampAndBeachFacility

A response from Mayor Sessoms re: turning the beloved Lynnhaven Boat Ramp and Beach Facility into a permanent dredge spoils location for the entire Lynnhaven Watershed.

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People who have been concerned our beloved Lynnhaven Boat Ramp & Beach Facility will essentially close due to overwhelming safety issues if it also becomes a permanent dredge spoils station for the entire Lynnhaven Watershed have been using THIS LINK to write to City Council, The Beaches and Waterways Commission, Bayfront Advisory Committee and Shore Drive Community Coalition.

A response from Mayor Sessoms:

Subject: OPPOSITION TO USING CRAB CREEK FOR PERMANENT DREDGE SPOILS TRANSFER LOCATION

Thank you for your email expressing your opposition to using the Crab Creek site for a permanent dredge spoils transfer location.

Staff briefed the Bayfront Advisory Committee on February 16, 2012, regarding the need to create a transfer facility and material/construction lay down area at the Crab Creek/Lynnhaven Boat Launch dredged material holding area in support of the upcoming Lesner Bridge Replacement Project. This facility would operate for approximately 30 months, during which time the City would collaborate to keep the Lynnhaven Boat Launch facility available for our citizens and visitors to use. Once the co-existence had been in operation for a period of time, staff would seek public input on their performance managing the multiple uses of these public facilities. At that time, a recommendation would be made to City Council for consideration, and we would look at the advantages and disadvantages of converting the temporary use of the transfer station into a permanent facility. We would not expect to have this matter brought to us until approximately the spring of 2014.

Because of limited public accesses to the Lynnhaven to assist in accomplishing various projects, staff feels it is imperative that multiple beneficial uses be made of available properties. Your concerns are understood, and no decisions regarding a permanent spoils transfer site would be made until residents were given the opportunity to provide input.

The time you took to make us aware of your views and your interest in preserving the quality of the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp is greatly appreciated. Please be assured they will be given serious consideration.

William D. Sessoms, Jr.

Mayor

City of Virginia Beach
Office of the Mayor
2401 Courthouse Drive, Building 1, Room 234
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
757-385-4581 (MAIN)
757-385-5699 (FAX)
wsessoms@vbgov.com

START HERE to send your letter to City Council, The Beaches and Waterways Commission, Bayfront Advisory Committee and Shore Drive Community Coalition.

"Based upon feedback received at the Public Meeting, alternate sites for a dredged material transfer station were evaluated. The proposed transfer facility has been moved from the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp Facility to a site located near the crossing of Thalia Creek and Virginia Beach Blvd." City of Virginia Beach April 2009

It was determined by the City of Virginia Beach the beloved Lynnhaven Boat Ramp & Beach Facility will not become a permanent dredge spoils transfer station for the entire Lynnhaven Watershed in April 2009. Link at SDCC.info.

“It took Tom Fraim and the Beaches and Waterways Advisory Commission to finally convince Virginia Beach that the Long Creek site isn’t the right location.”

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RESOLUTION PASSES – FEB. 28TH

The Resolution to REMOVE the Maple Street site as a potential dredge spoils transfer site for the neighborhood dredge program was unanimously approved by City Council tonight.

The Resolution at SDCC.info.
From LongCreekWetlands.com.
View article and video at WAVY.com.

“He stopped to consider an oyster, one worthy of his soon-to-be trademarked Pleasure House brand.”

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You read that right folks, Pleasure House branded oysters!

Read the entire article at Pilotonline.com:

“Can you imagine what’s in there?” he asked.

Ludford doesn’t have to imagine. Like a growing number of commercial oyster farmers in Virginia, he knows exactly what’s inside his brand of bivalve – in Ludford’s case, a plump mouthful of meat that starts with a bracing blast of brine and finishes with a rich oyster flavor and a speckle of sweet.

Yes we can imagine what’s in there Chris!

Imagine how incredible it is that VB Fireman Captain, and waterman from a family who’s done it for generations, has the entrepreneurial spirit to brand and work his lease for Pleasure House oysters right about the time the City of Virginia Beach is poised to protect Pleasure House Point forever.

Photo Credit: Tim Solanic

Beach’s Landfill New Hours

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Virginia Beach City Landfill to Be Closed on Mondays
The Virginia Beach Landfill will be closed on Mondays beginning Monday, March 19, 2012. It will continue to operate on Tuesday through Saturday from 7 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

“Going from six days per week to five days per week still provides residents of Virginia Beach substantial access to landfill disposal,” said John C. Barnes, Waste Management Administrator. “It allows us to consolidate staff and reduce our costs of the landfill while continuing to exceed regulatory requirements.”

The City Landfill is a municipal solid waste facility that is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The landfill allows disposal of residential waste, including a household hazardous waste and metals recycling facility, along with yard waste and recycling drop off.

For additional information, please contact Steve Uperti, Landfill Superintendent, at (757) 385-1981, or Linda Minner with Waste Management, at (757) 385-8595.

Ocean Park’s southside storm water system is getting improved and here’s how.

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View Ocean Park drainage improvement public meeting presentation 2-23-12 [32 page PDF.]

Thanks to City Staff & reps from Parsons Brinckerhoff for working on this challenge and for having the presentation on Feb 23rd.

Missing or Stolen Bike Found

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If any area family is missing a white Trek 10 speed (?) boy’s/men’s bike, please give me an email or a call (481-1668). The bike has been in my neighbor’s yard for about two weeks.

Council Resolution To Remove Maple Street From NDP

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In a Reso;ution submitted by Vice Mayor Jones and Councilman Wood, the City Council is scheduled to vote this Tuesday. This resolution as it is currently written would remove the city’s Maple Street “Containment Area” from the Neighborhood Dredging Program (NDP), while retaining the containment area’s use as a repository for beach grade sand in the city’s channel dredging maintenance program. This action, if the City Council approves, will remove a major contention (use of the Maple St area for non-beach grade dredge spoils).
For those wanting to attend this important meeting, it will be held in Building 1, City Hall on the 2nd floor at 6 PM 28 February.

Bikeways & Trails Advisory Committee report is out and talks up the terrific new bike lanes being built on Shore Drive in First Landing State Park

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From Bikeways & Trails Advisory Committee:

Shore Drive bike lanes
We are very excited to see progress on one of the Top Priority Infrastructure
Projects in the Bikeways and Trails Plan: bike lanes along Shore Drive, from
the Bayside area to the Oceanfront — generally, the four-mile section
between Fort Story and First Landing State Park. Through the Mayor’s
leadership in meeting with cyclists around the City and working with City
staff, funding was found in the current budgets to make this happen.
Construction is occurring right now, with completion of the eastbound side
expected in March 2012.

SDCC Agenda for February 27th Monday meeting at OPVRS

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Click here for a printable version of the agenda SDCC Agenda Feb 2012 

Shore Drive Community Coalition (SDCC) General Meeting

Monday 27 Feb 2012

SDCC General Meeting – Monday, Feb 27, 7:30 – 9:00 pm

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Station (Intersection of Shore Drive and East Stratford Rd.)

Call to order

Presentation:

Beaches & Waterways Advisory Commission Final Report to City Council Jan 2012, Impacts on Shore Drive communities

For Important information concerning neighborhood issues, dredge spoil project, Lesner Bridge replacement and Long Creek

http://www.SDCC.info

http://www.longcreekwetlands.com

http://www.VBGov.com

Officers’ Reports
President’s Report – David Williams
Vice President’s report-Vacant
Secretary’s Report – Todd Solomon – Minutes of the Nov Meeting
Treasurer’s Report – Carol Collins

Update on issues: City Budget, School Budget, Pleasure House Point

Old Business

New Business

Adjourn

Next SDCC- March 26, 2012

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Center

Speaker- To be announced

Please check http://www.sdcc.info for more information on area news and events

“The Assistant City Manager and City Staff were there to present plans for the Lesner Bridge replacement AND Building a Permanent Industrial Site at Crab Creek.”

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From an email posted unedited with permission:

Dear Neighbors,
Sid and I attended Thursday’s Bayfront Advisory Committee meeting. The Assistant
City Manager and City Staff were there to present plans for the Lesner Bridge
replacement AND Building a Permanent Industrial Site at Crab Creek.

There are several distinct issues that you should know about:

1. The Lesner Bridge replacement is vital – the City plans to use the Crab Creek
“spoils” site for construction staging for the bridge over the two or so years
it will take for the project. I feel that we as homeowners should accept that.
The Bridge’s condition is currently rated lower than the one in the Midwest that
fell a few years ago. During the construction there will be up to 100 truck
trips daily through the boat ramp and out to Shore Drive via Piedmont Circle and
E. Stratford Rd. There will be a “temporary” barge docking station built for
barging materials to the site.There will be noise and other usual construction
site impact. Beach access via the boat ramp facility will be curtailed during
the construction. Boat launching will remain open. While this is unpleasant, it
seems to be a necessary , but temporary, inconvenience.

2.Currently, CLEAN sand from dredging of the Crab Creek Channel occurs once
every year or two, or when weather causes sand movement that requires it to keep
the channel open for boaters. Again, I feel that since we, especially homeowners
with boats on the creek, benefit from this, it is a necessary nuisance. The
city stockpiles this sand on the site for future use for sand replenishment
along the bay or elsewhere in the city.We certainly also benefit when sand is
replenished on our nearby beach.

3. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON: The City has renewed its interest (that wefought in 2008) in putting a permanent dredge transfer site with Barge off-loading station at Crab Creek to receive and truck out the MUCK dredged fromneighborhoods such as Witchduck Point, Thoroughgood Manor, Church Point, and Saw Pen Point, who want their channels dug for their boating pleasure, but do notwant the inconvenience of the dredge transfer station in their own backyard.

If this is built, we will experience: barges offloading 40-50 truckloads of
dredge spoils a day, and those 40-50 trucks, averaging THIRTY-FIVE TONS
traveling across the cross-walk between the boat ramp bath house and the
boardwalk to the beach, and out to Shore Drive via Piedmont Circle and E.
Stratford Road. Barges may impede boat traffic in the boat channel. The dredged
muck in this process is thick and foul-smelling, not the clean sand that is
dredged from the Crab Creek channel. Beaches and Waterways Commission has
recommended limiting to 30 trucks per day for no more than two 90-day cycles per
year. It is unclear what the time-of-day restrictions may be for dredge transfer
work. The City said, regarding the Lesner Bridge construction, that time-of-day
work would depend on the contractor proposal…
If the engine noise and beeping you heard during the Crab Creek sand dredging
was troublesome to you, imagine adding the 30 or 50 large trucks per day I
personally found the noise alone to detract from my enjoyment of my porch. I
wonder if those along the creek will be able to use their back decks.

4. THIS ALSO DESERVES OUR ATTENTION:
The City Staff of VIrginia Beach now say they will use the future Permanent Dredge Transfer Station for other uses: possible staging for other construction, docking of working barges that currently moor in the Lynnhaven River for oyster reef work, dredges,etc.

The City, at Thursday’s meeting expressed assurances that they are sensitive to boaters and fishermen. They expressed no concern for homeowners.

I hope you all will join us in opposing a Permanent Dredge Transfer Station at
Crab Creek. Please email City Council and the Beaches and Waterways Commission and the Bayfront Advisory Committee members with your opposition to the proposed Dredge Transfer Station at Crab Creek.
Use my letter (posted below) if you like.

Here are all the email addresses to copy.
Cut and paste these email addresses for sending your letter:
tfraim@masacorp.com,
CMOffice@vbgov.com,
ctycncl@vbgov.com,
David@sdcc.info,
wsessoms@VBgov.com,
lrjones@VBgov.com,
gdavis@vbgov.com,
bdesteph@VBgov.com,
bdyer@VBgov.com,
bhenley@VBgov.com,
juhrin@VBgov.com,
rwilson31@cox.net,
jlwood@VBgov.com,
abarnes@vbgov.com,
kkassir@aol.com,
yiayia223@aol.com,
tanklines@aol.com,
jjma6@aol.com,
joeb@HBAonline.com,
normcarrick@cox.net,
dsparks@wcbeach.com

Thank you,
Wendy Vaughn

Previously at BoatRampClosing.com in 2008/09 when the plan to allow personal and public unknown dredge spoils and other material be barged to, and trucked from our beloved Lynnhaven Boat Ramp & Beach Facility. That plan was officially killed in April 2009.

An example letter to send to City Council, Bayfront Advisory Committee and Beaches & Waterways Commission and click-able email link:

Click here to start email to City Council, Beaches & Waterways Commission and Bayfront Advisory Committee.

### BEGINNING OF SAMPLE LETTER ###

    Mr. Mayor and Honorable Council Members, Members of Beaches and Waterways Commission, Members of the Bayfront Advisory Committee:

    [CHANGE TO APPROPRIATE INFO]> As homeowners in Ocean Park Virginia Beach, adjacent to Crab Creek, we want to express our strong opposition to using Crab Creek for a Permanent Dredge Spoils Transfer Site for the following reasons:
    * Operating barges in close proximity to the recreational boating channel at Crab Creek poses dangers to boaters, kayakers, and paddle-boarders. The channel is narrow. The City Boat Ramp at Crab Creek encourages the use of the channel for these recreational activities. This is a conflict.
    * Use of dump trucks through the boat ramp parking lot, over the pedestrian crosswalk from the bath houses to the beach, and through the residential neighborhood poses dangers to adults and children, bicyclists, fishermen, and motorists.
    * Use of barges in the Lynnhaven Basin creates a danger to the Lesner bridge. Over a year ago a barge did hit the Lesner Bridge.
    * Quality of water at the beaches surrounding the Crab Creek sand berm is jeopardized by unloading of spoils. Quality of the sand the City currently reclaims from the channel for use elsewhere is also jeopardized.
    * Noise pollution from engines, trucks, and beeping disrupts the quiet in the neighborhood. We currently experience this up to three months a year from the Crab Creek channel dredging. And the noise pollution is late at night and early in the morning. It is not equitable for us to be subject to it for many more months because those who will benefit from the dredging in their neighborhoods do not want the spoils transfer to take place in their neighborhoods.
    * Quality of air is jeopardized by diesel equipment and odors from dredge spoils.
    * Potential loss of equity in our home is unfair in order to benefit other neighborhoods.

    Our position has not changed since we voiced our opposition in 2008 along with the Ocean Park Civic League and many other Ocean Park homeowners.

    We ask that you complete the Thalia transfer station before determining the need for additional stations, and that studies be done by an independent third party to evaluate the concerns listed above. We also ask that you review the Ocean Park Civic League objections and citizen response to the 2008 proposal for a spoils transfer station at the Crab Creek site.

    The Lynnhaven Boat Ramp at Crab Creek is a clean, safe, quality recreational facility – a Virginia Beach success. Please consider the risk of damaging the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp. And please consider the risk of damage to the quality of life in our neighborhood.

    Respectfully,

    YOUR NAME
    YOUR ADDRESS

    ### END OF SAMPLE LETTER ###

Click here to start email to City Council, Beaches & Waterways Commission and Bayfront Advisory Committee.

“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: 1. That the City Council hereby directs the City Manager to remove the Maple Street site from consideration as a potential dredge spoils transfer site for the Neighborhood Dredging Program.”

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Read the entire resolution in this PDF [1pg].

 

The resolution is being scheduled for vote at City Council on Tuesday February 28th.

“Ask an Ocean Park resident what they love about their home, and our area’s natural beauty will be at the top of the list.”

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Or… ask any Shore Drive resident what they love about their home, and our area’s natural beauty will most certainly be at the top of the list.

Sabrina of Ocean Park allowed us to post her words, unedited, below:

Today, I found four discarded fluorescent tubes in one of the beach garbage cans, which says to me that someone didn’t feel like taking them to a landfill (or Home Depot or Lowes) where they could be disposed of properly, but instead carried them out on to the beach to leave them for a crew which is unlikely to be equipped for hazardous waste. It also means they didn’t care if the bulbs got broken, thus allowing the [fluorescence’s] mercury lining to leak onto the sand and wash into the Chesapeake.

The garbage that we allow onto our land and into our waterways is not just ugly, it is deadly. Plastic bags, balloons, and shiny wrappers are a significant choking hazard for marine animals such as dolphins and sea turtles. Ocean birds starve to death every day with stomachs full of undigestible, brightly colored plastic that has built up over time; birds cannot pass this through their systems and ultimately have no room to swallow anything that has nutrition.

Ask an Ocean Park resident what they love about their home, and our area’s natural beauty will be at the top of the list. Perhaps we who purport to appreciate our surroundings could take responsibility for our own waste– and maybe even pick up something that was left behind by someone else.

Sabrina originally wrote this in Ocean Park’s Facebook Group yesterday.
Thank you Sabrina.

Photo Credit: KEVIN J O'HARA


Photo taken in your unknown backyard, Pleasure House Point.