WINDMILL POINT—The Lancaster board of Supervisors, numerous project representatives, marina personnel and Windmill Point residents gathered Tuesday, August 6, to celebrate the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Westland Beach restoration and expansion project.
The multi-million dollar project will expand the size of the county’s only public beach 20-fold with beach restoration of 16,000 cubic yards of sand and will enhance the beach’s resiliency to storms. The project will incorporate a 450-foot-long fishing and observation pier in the Rappahannock River as well as restore and revegetate the dunes.
County administrator Don Gill referred to Windmill Point as one of the county’s crown jewels and said the project had been a long time coming.
Windmill Point Marina operating manager and dock master Tony Ashbury expressed his excitement…
