Develop a cache of shovel-ready projects with engineering designs, provide financial incentives to construct 1,373 ft of new living shorelines, and document installation of recently implemented shoreline management projects. Project will grow and enhance existing partnerships and measurably accelerate both the geographic scale and the rate of implementation of living shorelines across Rural Coastal Virginia, a priority best management practice in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Chesapeake Bay Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction
Project Title: Accelerating the Scale and the Rate of Living Shoreline Implementation in Rural Coastal Virginia
Organization:
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Project ID:
0602.21.071893
Description:
Award Amount:
$1000000.00
Location:
Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond, and Westmoreland counties, Virginia