Craney Island rises from the water

Since 2010, dredging contractors have been pumping tens-of-thousands of cubic yards of sand from the Atlantic Channel maintenance dredging project, spreading the material in two rows perpendicular to the Craney Island shoreline for the construction of the dykes.

“This is an important milestone as we can now see the progress; it was hard to get an image of what we were talking about when everything was still underwater,” said Rodney Oliver, interim executive director of the Virginia Port Authority (VPA).

“As this project has now become something tangible, so too has the reality of the Port of Virginia becoming the US East Coast’s cargo gateway. When Craney Island is finished, this port will have more container capacity than any of its peers on this coast,” he claimed