Over 20 Years of Beaches, Back Bays, Rivers and Stormwater in Norfolk, Virginia
Brian Joyner, Moffatt & Nichol, and Kelli Cunningham, Waggonner & Ball
Since 2003, the City of Norfolk, Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal flooding
issues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its diverse communities’ resilience to coastal flooding. Norfolk won one of the 2016 HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition
(NDRC) projects and has completed design and construction of that Ohio Creek Watershed NDRC project. The City has also been partnering with the US Navy through the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) process and with USACE through its
Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) project, with the first projects from the authorized CSRM currently in construction design phase. This presentation will give a high level overview of the City’s program to date and provide lessons
learned in the processes of community engagement, how the planning process of the Dutch Dialogues led to significant funding streams to streamline project implementation, innovative and practical engineering and architectural design,
and construction of nature-based, resilience-enhancing projects (beaches, living shorelines, and stormwater) in an area challenged by geotechnical, topographical and prior development constraints.
The N-EWN Knowledge Series offers 1 Continuing Education Credit (CEC) per seminar. This Series is presented by N-EWN, Limnotech, the University of Georgia, and USACE ERDC.