Eleven sustainable, convenient water access sites for commercial watermen to offload their catch could be coming soon to the Middle Peninsula. Developing such sites was the topic of a public engagement meeting held last Wednesday at Rappahannock Community College at Glenns. Six of the potential access sites that were discussed are in Gloucester and Mathews.
Co-sponsored by the engineering firm VHB (Vanasse Hangen Brustlin) and the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, the meeting was held to get community feedback on the project, titled “Designing Multimodal Working Waterfronts.”
The project, funded by a planning grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity” (RAISE) program, identified 11 publicly-owned working waterfront sites across five counties that can be developed to support the rural coastal seafood and maritime industries, said VHB Project Manager Ricky Wiatt, a landscape architect. With the sites...