AGENDA August 23, 2022

** APPROVAL OF AGENDA.

1. MINUTES of previous meeting.

2. PERMITS (Projects over $500,000.00 with no objections and with staff recommendation for approval).

3. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.

4. CLOSED MEETING FOR CONSULTATION WITH, OR BRIEFING BY, COUNSEL.

5. DAVID SULLIVAN and WANDA WACHTER, #22-0653 Request authorization to install two (2) 48-foot low-profile tapered armor stone replacement groins with a maximum base width of 14 feet, extending 48 feet from mean high water adjacent to property situated along the Potomac River at 493 and 503 Judith Sound Road in Northumberland County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.

6. LYNNHAVEN OYSTER COMPANY, LLC, #20-1974 Requests authorization to install up to 2,100 floating cage aquaculture modules within the boundaries of oyster planting ground lease # 19155 (now lease # 22772) within Broad Bay, near Seashore State Park in the City of Virginia Beach. The request is protested by a number of local residents and property owners.

7. PUBLIC COMMENTS

8. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-720-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Restrictions on Oyster Harvest" to establish the 2022-2023 areas of public harvest, public oyster harvest seasons, and oyster resource conservation measures.

PAGE 2 ITEMS

A. CITY OF LYNCHBURG, #22-0683 Requests authorization to remove the College Lake Dam and to remediate Blackwater Creek by modifying approximately 8,000 linear feet of its channel using natural stream restoration techniques to include relocation of the channel bed, constructing 30 boulder cross vanes, 993 linear feet of toe wood structures, 8,319 square yards of brush mattress, 4,104 square yards of BioD Block, install 12,487 cubic yards of constructed riffle bed material, and 1,960 cubic yards of reinforced riffle cascade bed near Lakeside Drive in the City of Lynchburg. Staff recommends approval of the project with our standard instream permit conditions.

B. GLEBE HARBOR-CABIN POINT SANITARY DISTRICT, #21-2212 Requests authorization to install nine (9) stone breakwaters to create approximately 1,904 linear feet of a gapped breakwater backfilled with 10,520 cubic yards of clean sand fill. The breakwaters will have a maximum crest height of four (4) feet above mean high water and a maximum base width of 33 feet aligned at the terminus of the existing timber groins. Additional work includes the placement of 66 linear feet of riprap and a 91-foot long riprap jetty extension at their property situated along Lower Machodoc Creek in Westmoreland County. Staff recommends approval of the project with a permit condition requiring that the beach nourishment be comprised of at least 90% clean sand.

FISHERY MANAGEMENT ITEMS WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE HABITAT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA.



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