Shore in Virginia gets federal funds for dredging projects

It is reported that two dredging projects on the Eastern Shore of Virginia are among Virginia projects receiving a total of nearly $56 million in new federal funding.

The Eastern Shore projects include $250,000 for maintenance dredging of the Chincoteague Inlet and $1.75 million for work on the Waterway on the Coast of Virginia, including maintenance dredging to provide boats a protected, 90-mile, north-south route connecting harbors on the Eastern Shore to each other and to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.In recent instances of dredging projects on the seaside of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Wachapreague Channel dredging in 2013 cost approximately $775,000 and Bradford’s Bay Channel dredging cost about $1,125,000 in 2014.

There is no doubt that the project will benefit many people who live nearby and local environment.It will bring local areas a bright future and more challenges.

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