NNPDC awarded funding for living shorelines project

WARSAW—The Northern Neck Planning District Commission (NNPDC) has been awarded $416,310 from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Chesapeake Bay Office for extending and elevating the living shoreline at the Longwood University Gerald L. Baliles Center for Environmental Education at Hull Springs.

In 2007, the first living shoreline at Hull Springs Farm was permitted by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and installed. In the past 18 years, a mitigation bank has been created, upland landscaping practices deployed, oyster aquaculture cages installed and educational outreach developed to share the environmental stewardship practices of this 662-acre conserved property in the Northern Neck, reported NNPDC executive director Jerry W. Davis…