pumping sand that was dredged from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay onto Ocean View Beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District Image Gallery
pumping sand that was dredged from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay onto Ocean View Beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District Image Gallery
After Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the beach in the Ocean View neighborhood of Norfolk was replenished. The Corps of Engineers dredged sand from the Thimble Shoal shipping channel, pumped it onto the Ocean View beach, and spread the sand with bulldozers. The objective was to build a beach 60' wide and 5' high at the landward edge.
Norfolk had tried to maintain the width of the beach by constructing 36 rock breakwaters. Those trapped sand moving along the shoreline, but also disqualified Ocean View from Federal beach replenishment programs. The regulations were revised after Superstorm Sandy.
Congress appropriated $12.9 million and Norfolk contributed $5.5 million for the first replenishment stage, which was completed in 2017. As reported in The Virginian-Pilot:1
sand dredged from the Lynnhaven Inlet channel after Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was used to replenish the beach from the Lynnhaven Inlet to Chic's Beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District Image Gallery
sand was pumped from the bottom of Chesapeake Bay onto the beach at Ocean View
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 170428-A-BJ794
after sand was pumped onshore, bulldozers spread it to create a wider beach at Ocean View
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 170428-A-OI229_8
sand dredged from Federal lease areas off Virginia Beach has been used for beach replenishment projects between Sandbridge and the resort area
Source: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Marine Minerals Information System
sand resources (brown lines) are both inside and outside the Submerged Lands Act Boundary, but Federal lease areas (black squares) must be at least three miles offshore
Source: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Marine Minerals Information System
coastal research amphibious buggy conducting survey operations for dredging in the Virginia Beach Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Beach oceanfront continues to grow with help of city, district
keeping Ocean View Beach 60' wide will rquire pumping more sand onto the beach every nine years
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District Image Gallery
sand can be dredged from shipping channels into barges and then transported to replenish a beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers districts revitalize Ocean City inlet
Hurricane Sandy brought waves to the seawall in the resort area of Virginia Beach on October 29, 2012
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 121029-A-OI229-006
sand is pumped into hopper dredge ships for transport to replenishment sites
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Rudee Inlet Dredging
sand for the 2013 Virginia Beach Hurricane Protection Beach Renourishment Project (Big Beach) was brought by a hopper dredge navigational channels north of Cape Henry
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 130110-A-ON889-144
sand was pumped from the hopper dredge though pipes to the resort area beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 130201-A-ON889-008
sand and water arrive via the pipe at the beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 130110-A-ON889-124
bulldozers spread the sand as it arrives on the beach
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 130125-A-ON889-031
the Big Beach finished with a minimum elevation of 8.5 feet at the seawall
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, 130110-A-ON889-168
beach replenishment at Sandbridge in 2007
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sandbridge, Va. (070703-A-1111A-006)