Examples
In recognition of severe cuts in funding for the maintenance of federal navigation channels, managed a program consisting of engineers and scientists which evaluated potential options for future dredging and related sediment management applied to a number of Chesapeake Bay communities.
In recognition of persistent shoaling in the Lynnhaven Inlet, established the need for initial federal funding to study potential coastal structures as potential cost effective means to reduce the shoaling and annual costs of maintaining the navigation channel.
Big plans await Virginia Beach’s Lynnhaven Inlet
In recognition of the need to provide deepwater access to the Port of Richmond, VA, led program efforts to fund construction of a widened turning basin.
Port of Richmond Deepwater Terminal Turning Basin Expansion Project