Title

An Analysis of Shoreline Development Risk for Secondary Dune Systems in Tidewater Virginia with Associated Management Recommendations

Authors

Lyle M. Varnell, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow
C. Scott Hardaway Jr., Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow

Document Type

Report

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Publication Date

11-2002

Abstract

This project was done in response to concerns by environmental resource managers of historic and potential adverse impacts to Virginia’s secondary dune ecosystems. Virginia environmental regulatory programs have little decision-making authority over the use of secondary dunes as these areas are not included in the Coastal Primary Sand Dune Act (the Dunes Act). These areas function as estuarine edge habitat and provide natural upland erosion control, and are thus valuable to estuarine and coastal plain fauna and adjacent upland property owners.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21220/V53T5G

Keywords

Sand Dune Conservation, Virginia, Shoreline Management

Funding

This project was funded by the Coastal Resources Management Program of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality through Grant #NA17OZ1142 of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.

Recommended Citation

Varnell, L. M., & Hardaway, C. (2002) An Analysis of Shoreline Development Risk for Secondary Dune Systems in Tidewater Virginia with Associated Management Recommendations. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary. https://doi.org/10.21220/V53T5G