Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
Agency 20. Marine Resources Commission |
Chapter 470. Pertaining to Hampton Roads Management Area |
Section 20. Hampton Roads Management Area established
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The Hampton Roads Management Area is established as that area defined as follows:
Beginning at the mean low water line of Newport News Point at its intersection with the northbound lanes of I-664; thence following the mean low water line of Hampton Roads and its tributaries and Chesapeake Bay in an easterly direction to the Fort Monroe Officers' Club Pier; thence in an easterly direction to the white and orange buoy "G"; thence in an easterly direction to Thimble Shoal Light; thence in a southerly direction to buoy G "17"; thence in a southwesterly direction to the trestle of the westbound lanes of I-64 Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel at its intersection with the south island; thence following the westbound lanes of Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel to its intersection at the mean low water line of Willoughby Spit; thence following the mean low water line of Willoughby Spit in a southerly direction to the flashing light "11"; thence in a southwesterly direction approximately 2800 feet to the bulkhead corner of the U. S. Naval Reservation Heliport; thence following the mean low water line of Hampton Roads in a westerly and southerly direction to a point opposite of the grain elevator south of Pier A of the municipal terminal; thence in a westerly direction to buoy G "11"; thence in a westerly direction to buoy R "12"; thence in a southwesterly direction to the mean low water line at the northeastern corner of Craney Island Disposal Area; thence in a westerly direction to the intersection of the northbound lanes of I-664 and the south island of the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel; thence in a northwesterly direction along the northbound lanes of I-664 to its intersection with the mean low water line at Newport News Point, being the point of beginning.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR450-01-0061 § 2, Volume 11, Issue 22, eff. July 1, 1995.
Statutory Authority
§ 28.2-201 of the Code of Virginia.