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Many of the sensors will be located near or on the way to military installations because of DOD funding. Others will be along commuting corridors and flooding hotspots, such as Olney Road and Boush Street in Norfolk.
There’s little recourse for abandoned vessels left rotting in Virginia waterways. Too costly to dispose of properly, the boats’ owners often leave them to sink, posing environmental and navigational hazards that no one is tasked with cleaning up.
The James River Association's latest overall grade for the waterway, which is about 340 miles long and the Chesapeake Bay’s largest tributary, is a B-minus. That's unchanged from 2019 but with a slight slide in the numerical score.
Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the program that oversees the bay’s restoration will get an extra $238 million over the next five years, or a little over $47 million each year.
Using historical water sampling boosted by sophisticated computer models, VIMS researchers gained insight into how the water has changed over the past three decades, from the surface to its depths.
The Virginia Tech team, working out of an agricultural extension center in Hampton is figuring out the best way to program cells to mimic the look, feel and flavor of the meat we eat.
At the tide gauge at Sewell’s Point in Norfolk on Saturday, the tide should be between 4-5 feet above the usual low tide, said Skip Stiles, executive director of Norfolk-based Wetlands Watch. The peak will be shortly before 11 a.m.
The Republican won with about 51.2% of the vote, beating Guy by 732 votes with all but provisional and delayed mail-in ballots counted, according to unofficial results.