en.Wedoany.com Reported - A $518 million stormwater management improvement plan will begin construction in Virginia Beach in July, aiming to reduce flood risks for thousands of local residents.
Known as the "Windsor Woods, Princess Anne Plaza, and Lake Area Stormwater Improvement 'Super Bundle'," the plan employs a progressive design-build approach to implement multiple flood prevention infrastructure projects in low-lying communities. Increasingly frequent heavy rainfall events in these areas have overwhelmed limited or absent stormwater drainage systems.
FlatironDragados is leading construction work after a two-year collaborative pre-construction phase with the City of Virginia Beach and design partner Arcadis. Jacobs Engineering serves as the city's primary engineering and resilience consultant.
The first subproject of the plan is the $127 million Windsor Woods Pump Station, which will work in conjunction with the recently completed Windsor Woods Tidal Gate to lower water levels in Windsor Lake before extreme tidal events and large-scale forecast storm events. The new pump station, with a capacity of 432,000 gallons per minute, will help create stormwater storage capacity in the lake and creeks and assist drainage during heavy rainfall events.
Later this year, FlatironDragados will begin constructing flood barriers consisting of earthen embankments and concrete walls to isolate the tidal gate and pump station from surface runoff, backflow, and storm surge during extreme events.
Five other subprojects will incorporate similar flood prevention infrastructure systems in other vulnerable locations. Funding comes from a 2021 bond referendum that passed overwhelmingly amid memories of major flooding following Hurricane Matthew in 2016. That storm brought 14 inches of rain to the area in just 20 hours.
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