U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractors pump sand dredged from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay up to Norfolk, Virginia’s Ocean View Beach. The sand is part of a $34.5 million project to reduce storm damage risk to infrastructure along a 7.3 mile stretch of waterfront. When completed in 2017, the beach was 60 feet wide and sloped up to 5 feet above mean low water.